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Marilyn Duckworth OBE (born 10 November 1935) is a New Zealand novelist, poet and short story writer. She has published 16 novels, one novella, a collection of short stories and a collection of poetry. She has also written for television and radio.

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Early life

Duckworth was born in Auckland, New Zealand, but spent the years between 1939 and 1947 in England. Her father was the psychologist and Esperantist Cyril Adcock, and her sister is the poet Fleur Adcock.

Career

Duckworth's first novel, A Gap in the Spectrum, was published when she was 23.

Her debut in 1959 puts her in the second generation of New Zealand novelists of the Provincial period.[1]

Honours, awards and nominations

• 1963: New Zealand Literary Fund Award for Achievement for A Barbarous Tongue
• 1985: New Zealand Book Award:Fiction for Disorderly Conduct
• 1095: Wattie Book of the Year Award (shortlisted) for Disorderly Conduct
• 1987: Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to literature, in the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours[2]
• 1996: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (shortlisted) for Leather Wings
• 2011–2012: President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors NZSA/PEN NZ
• 2016: Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement - Fiction [3]

Fellowships and grants

• Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters (1961 and 1972)
• Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, Menton, France (1980)[4]
• Fulbright Visiting Writer's Fellowship, United States (1987)
• Australia New Zealand Writers' Exchange Fellowship (1989)
• Victoria University of Wellington Writer's Fellowship (1990)
• Arts Council NZ Scholarship in Letters (1993)
• Hawthornden Writing fellowship, Scotland (1994)
• Sargeson Writing Fellowship, Auckland (1995)
• Auckland University Literary Fellowship (1996)
• Ucross Foundation Residency, Wyoming United States (1997)
• Millay Arts Centre Residency, New York State United States (2001)

Selected works

• A Gap in the Spectrum (1959)
• The Matchbox House (1960)
• A Barbarous Tongue (1963)
• Over the Fence Is Out (1969).
• Other Lovers' Children: Poems 1958–74 (1975)
• Disorderly Conduct (1984)
• Married Alive (1985)
• Rest for the Wicked (1986)
• Pulling Faces (1987)
• A Message from Harpo (1989)
• Explosions in the Sun (1989), a volume of short stories
• Unlawful Entry (1992)
• Seeing Red (1993)
• Fooling (1994), a novella
• Leather Wings (1995)
• Cherries on a Plate: New Zealand Writers Talk About Their Sisters (1996 ) (editor)
• Studmuffin (1997)
• Camping on the Faultline (2000), a memoir
• Swallowing Diamonds (2003)
• Playing Friends (2007)
• The Chiming Blue: New and Selected Poems (VUP, 2017)

Plays broadcast on radio

• Feet First (Radio New Zealand) (1981)
• Home to Mother (Radio New Zealand) (1976)
• A Gap in the Spectrum (Radio New Zealand) (1972)
• A Barbarous Tongue (Radio New Zealand) (adaptation of own work for Radio New Zealand) (1973)

Television scripts

• Close to Home scripts; 5 for Television One in 1975–1976.

References

Bibliography

• Sturm, Terry (1991). The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English. Auckland, N.Z.: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-558211-X. OCLC 24378310.

Further reading

• The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson & Nelson Wattie pp. 147–148 (1998, Oxford University Press, Auckland). ISBN 0-19-558348-5

External links

• List of New Zealand literary figures
• "Marilyn Duckworth (1990)". NZETC. 2 August 2014.
• The New Zealand Book Council
• The New Zealand Literature File

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