Sir Vincent Gerard O'SullivanKNZM (born 28 September 1937) is one of New Zealand's best-known writers. He is a poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, critic, editor, biographer, and librettist.
Vincent Gerard O'Sullivan (1937-09-28) 28 September 1937 (age85) Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation
Writer
Almamater
University of Oxford
Early life and family
Born in Auckland,[1] O'Sullivan is the youngest of six children born to Timothy O'Sullivan (born in Tralee, Ireland) and Myra O'Sullivan (née McKean). He was educated at St Joseph's Primary, Grey Lynn, and Sacred Heart College, Auckland, in Glendowie. He graduated from the University of Auckland and the University of Oxford.
O'Sullivan's first marriage was to Tui Rererangi Walsh, with whom he had two children; Dominic O'Sullivan and Deirdre O'Sullivan. He now lives in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, with his wife Helen.[2]
Career
O'Sullivan lectured at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) from 1963 to 1966, and the University of Waikato between 1968 and 1978).[3] He served as literary editor of the NZ Listener from 1979 to 1980, and then between 1981 and 1987 won a series of writer’s residencies and research fellowships in universities in Australia and New Zealand: VUW, University of Tasmania, Deakin University (Geelong), Flinders University in Adelaide, University of Western Australia, and University of Queensland.[3] These were interrupted in 1983 by a year as resident playwright at Downstage Theatre, Wellington.[3] In 1988 he returned to VUW, where he was professor of English literature until his retirement in 2004.[1]
Honours and awards
In 1966, O'Sullivan won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry, in 1979 he received the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award for a short story,[4] and in 1994 he received the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. He won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1999.
In the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours, O’Sullivan was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.[5] In 2009, following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government, he initially declined redesignation as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit,[6] because, in his view, it did not fit New Zealand "historically and socially", and that "it didn't seem to make much sense in contemporary New Zealand society".[7] However, he accepted the change in December 2021.[8]
O'Sullivan was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship in 2004,[9] the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry, and the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2006.[10] He was the New Zealand Poet Laureate for the term 2013 to 2015,[11][12] and in 2016 he was the Honoured New Zealand Writer at the Auckland Writers Festival.[13]
The Dark is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere a Biographical Portrait won for him the 2021 General non-fiction award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[14]
1984, 1987, 1993, 1996, 2003 The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (vols. 1–5), co-editor with Margaret Scott[60]
2006, 2012 The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1916–1922 (vols. 1–2), co-editor with Gerri Kimber[61]
Librettos
2002 Black Ice (with composer Ross Harris)
2004 Lines from the Beach House (with composer David Farquhar)
2008 The Floating Bride, the Crimson Village (with composer Ross Harris)
2010 The Abiding Tides (with composer Ross Harris)
2012 Songs for Beatrice: Making Light of Time (with composer Ross Harris)
2014 Notes from the Front: Songs on Alexander Aitken (with composer Ross Harris)
2014 Requiem for the Fallen (with composer Ross Harris)
2014 If Blood Be the Price (with composer Ross Harris)
2016 Brass Poppies (with composer Ross Harris)
2018 Face (with composer Ross Harris)
Festschrift
2007 Still shines when you think of it: a festschrift for Vincent O'Sullivan, edited by Bill Manhire and Peter Whiteford[62]
Further reading
'10 Questions: Vincent O'Sullivan', New Zealand String Quartet, 20 February 2014[63]
'Vincent O'Sullivan: NZ poet, author, biographer', Radio New Zealand, 28 February 2014[64]
'Ross Harris and Vincent O'Sullivan', Radio New Zealand, 1 March 2016[65]
'Let us now contemplate what to do with Katherine Mansfield's bones: A proposal by Vincent O'Sullivan', The Spinoff, 28 March 2017[66]
'Vincent O'Sullivan's first novel in 20 years a "landmark book" for NZ literature', by Mike White, North & South, 5 November 2018[67]
'The deep discomfort of remembering, Ann Beaglehole', New Zealand Review of Books / Pukapuka Aotearoa, 6 June 2018[68]
All This By Chance reviewed by Nicholas Reid on Stuff, 11 March 2018[69]
'Book of the Week: The best New Zealand novel of 2018': All This By Chance reviewed by Elizabeth Alley, The Spinoff, 22 March 2018[70]
All This By Chance reviewed by Marcus Hobson on NZ Booklovers[71]
All This By Chance reviewed by Lesley McIntosh on The Reader, NZ Booksellers blog, 19 April 2018[72]
'Acclaimed writers Vincent O’Sullivan and Diana Wichtel explore their very different approaches to representing the Holocaust', Radio New Zealand, 26 December 2018[73]
'The Confession Box: Vincent O'Sullivan', The New Zealand Herald, 11 May 2019 [74]
O'Sullivan, Vincent (1975). New Zealand Short Stories: Third series. Oxford University Press. ISBN0195580001.
Jackson, MacDonald P.; O'Sullivan, Vincent, eds. (1983). The Oxford book of New Zealand writing since 1945. Auckland: Oxford University Press. ISBN0195580974. OCLC9832361.
Mansfield, Katherine (1982). O'Sullivan, Vincent (ed.). The aloe: with, Prelude. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press. ISBN090863501X. OCLC9571129.
Bethell, Ursula (1997). O'Sullivan, Vincent (ed.). Collected poems. Wellington: Victoria University Press. ISBN0864733070. OCLC38587538.
Mansfield, Katherine (1988). O'Sullivan, Vincent (ed.). Poems of Katherine Mansfield. Auckland. ISBN019558192X. OCLC21412457.
O'Sullivan, Vincent, ed. (1992). The Oxford book of New Zealand short stories. Auckland: Oxford University Press. ISBN0195582527. OCLC27762580.
Milner, Ian (1993). O'Sullivan, Vincent (ed.). Intersecting lines: the memoirs of. Wellington: Victoria University Press. ISBN0864732511. OCLC34764456.
Mansfield, Katherine (4 October 2013). O'Sullivan, Vincent (ed.). New Zealand Stories: Mansfield Selections. Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. ISBN9781775535003.
Kimber, Gerri; O'Sullivan, Vincent, eds. (2012). The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1916–1922. Vol.2. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN9780748642755.
Manhire, Bill; Whiteford, Peter, eds. (2007). Still shines when you think of it: a festschrift for Vincent O'Sullivan. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
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