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Ian Wedde

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Ian Wedde

Aliases: Ian Curtis Wedde

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1946-10-17 (Blenheim, New Zealand)
Nationality
New Zealand
Languages
English
Residence History
Blenheim, New Zealand → East Pakistan → England → Port Chalmers, New Zealand → Wellington, New Zealand

Career

Occupations
poet, fiction writer, critic, art curator
Active Years
1966-2024
Affiliations
The Evening Post, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Education

University of Auckland
English
Degree: MA
Period: -1968
Year of Graduation: 1968
Country: New Zealand
King's College, Auckland
Country: New Zealand

Awards

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
2010
Organization: New Zealand Government
Result: 受賞
Book Award for Fiction
1977
Work: Dick Seddon’s Great Dive
Result: 受賞
New Zealand Poet Laureate
2011
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Reed Warbler

2020 novel

Chinese Opera

2005 novel

Symmes Hole

1986 novel

Dick Seddon’s Great Dive

1976 novel

Bibliography

  • Homage to Matisse
  • Made Over
  • Pathway to the Sea
  • Earthly: Sonnets for Carlos
  • Spells for Coming Out
  • Castally: Poems 1973–1977
  • Tales of Gotham City
  • Georgicon
  • Driving into the Storm: Selected Poems
  • Tendering
  • The Drummer
  • The Commonplace Odes
  • Three Regrets and A Hymn to Beauty
  • Dick Seddon’s Great Dive
  • The Shirt Factory and Other Stories
  • Symmes Hole
  • Survival Arts
  • Chinese Opera
  • The Viewing Platform
  • The Reed Warbler

Legacy

Prominent New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator. Served as New Zealand Poet Laureate and appointed ONZM. Curated exhibitions at Te Papa.

Trivia

  • Married twice.