Tuesday 26 March 2013

RIP Barbara Anderson, Hawke's Bay author

It is sad to hear that novelist Barbara Anderson passed away on Sunday in Auckland after a brief illness.

Barbara Anderson became an internationally recognised fiction writer in her sixties. Born in Hastings, and educated in Hawkes Bay, she graduated with a BSc from Otago University (1947) and a BA Victoria University (1984). She has worked as a medical technologist and teacher in Hawkes Bay and Wellington. With a lifelong interest in writing and reading, she attended Bill Manhire’s creative writing course at Victoria University in 1983, having already experimented with her writing. Several stories were published in Metro, Landfall, Sport and the NZ Listener, while one of her unpublished plays won the J.C. Reid award in 1985, and several have been broadcast.  Read more at www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/andersonb.html

Read more tributes on Barbara's publishers' website:  Victoria University Press

Books by Barbara Anderson on our Catalogue

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