Rosetta Allan

Rosetta Allan is a New Zealand poet and novelist.

Career

Allan's first collection of poems, Little Rock, was published in 2007. Her second, Over Lunch, was published in 2010.[1]

In 2012, Allan began researching the history of European settlement in New Zealand in order to further understand her own family tree.[2] In doing so, she came across material regarding a man named John Finnigan, who was apparently murdered in 1865 along with his mother and two brothers. The incident was referred to as the Otahuhu Murders, and formed the focal point for her novel, Purgatory,[3] which was published in New Zealand in 2014.[4][5]

Allan has held a number of writing residencies. In April 2016, she was appointed Writer-in-Residence at St Petersburg University in Russia. In 2018, Allan was appointed Writer-in-Residence at the Michael King Writer's Centre. In 2019, Allan was appointed Creative New Zealand University of Waikato Writer in Residence in Hamilton for the year.[6]

Publications

Allan's publications are:[7]

  • Little Rock (2007)
  • Over Lunch (2010)
  • Purgatory (2014)
  • The Unreliable People (2019)
  • Crazy Love (2021)

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Rosetta Allan - Griffith Review". Griffith Review. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. ^ "NZ Booklovers". NZ Booklovers. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  3. ^ McCrystal, John (20 June 2014). "Book review: Purgatory". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Purgatory by Rosetta Allan". Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  5. ^ "New Zealand". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 50 (4): 537. 2015. doi:10.1177/0021989415609499. S2CID 220710459.
  6. ^ "Rosetta Allan – Academy of New Zealand Literature". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  7. ^ "Rosetta Allan". Penguin New Zealand. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Kathleen Grattan Award". Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Metonymy". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

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