Cover Stories

Author(s): Stephanie de Montalk

NZ Poetry

Born in 1945, Stephanie de Montalk has worked as a nurse and a documentary film maker. She is a former member of the Film and Literature Board of Review. Since the mid-1990s she has published poems in Landfall, Sport and a range of other periodicals and anthologies. She was joint winner of the Victoria University of Wellington Original Composition prize in 1997. In the same year she was joint winner of the Novice WritersâÃÂàAward in the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Memorial Awards. Animals Indoors (VUP 2000), her first collection of poetry, was published while she was undertaking a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing with Bill Manhire at Victoria University of Wellington and it won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the 2001 The Montana NZ Book Awards. Her second book, Unquiet World: The Life of Count Potoki de Montalk, a biography of her cousin, was published by Victoria University Press in September 2001. In October 2002 Stephanie's second collection of poetry The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang was published by VUP. In 2005 she was Victoria University of Wellington's writer in residence. Cover Stories was first published 2005.

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Born in 1945, Stephanie de Montalk has worked as a nurse and a documentary film maker. She is a former member of the Film and Literature Board of Review. Since the mid-1990s she has published poems in Landfall, Sport and a range of other periodicals and anthologies. She was joint winner of the Victoria University of Wellington Original Composition prize in 1997. In the same year she was joint winner of the Novice Writers? Award in the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Memorial Awards. Animals Indoors (VUP 2000), her first collection of poetry, was published while she was undertaking a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing with Bill Manhire at Victoria University of Wellington and it won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the 2001 The Montana NZ Book Awards. Her second book, Unquiet World: The Life of Count Potoki de Montalk, a biography of her cousin, was published by Victoria University Press in September 2001. In October 2002 Stephanie's second collection of poetry The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang was published by VUP. In 2005 she is Victoria University of Wellington's writer in residence.

General Fields

  • : 9780864734990
  • : 82249
  • : Victoria University Press
  • : 0.109
  • : May 2005
  • : 210mm X 144mm X 7mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

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  • : Stephanie de Montalk
  • : Paperback
  • : 821.92
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