Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE, (born October 17, 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. Badge of the Order of New Zealand The Order of New Zealand is the highest locally awarded honour in the New Zealand Honours System. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority... October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ...
One of Karl Stead's novels, Smith's Dream, provided the basis for the film Sleeping Dogs, starring Sam Neill; this became the first New Zealand film released in the United States. Mansfield: A Novel was a finalist for the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize and received commendation in the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region. Sleeping Dogs is a 1977 film and the first feature film by director Roger Donaldson. ... Sam Neill (born Nigel John Dermot Neill), OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand film and television actor, and owner of the Two Paddocks winery in Central Otago. ... New Zealand Cinema is film made in or about New Zealand. ... The Commonwealth Writers Prize was established in 1987. ...
C. K. Stead was born in Auckland. For much of his working career he was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He received a CBE in 1985 and was admitted into the highest honour New Zealand can bestow, the Order of New Zealand in 2007. Schematic map of Auckland. ... The University of Auckland (MÄori: Te Whare WÄnanga o TÄmaki Makaurau) is New Zealands largest research-based university. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Badge of the Order of New Zealand The Order of New Zealand is the highest locally awarded honour in the New Zealand Honours System. ...
Bibliography
Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954-62 (1964)
The New Poetic (1964)
Smith's Dream (1971)
Crossing the Bar (1972)
Quesada: Poems 1972-74 (1975)
Walking Westward (1979)
Five for the Symbol (1981)
Geographies (1982)
In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand literature (1982)
Paris: A poem (1984)
Poems of a Decade (1983)
All Visitors Ashore (1984)
The Death of the Body (1986)
Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement (1986)
Between (1988)
Sister Hollywood (1989)
Answering to the Language: Essays on modern writers (1989)
Voices (1990)
The End of the Century at the End of the World (1992)
The Singing Whakapapa (1994)
Villa Vittoria (1997)
Straw into Gold: New and selected poems (1997)
The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair (1998)
Talking About O'Dwyer (1999)
The Right Thing (2000)
The Writer at Work: Essays (2000)
The Secret History of Modernism (2001)
Dog (2002)
Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand writers (2002)
Stead’s critical values and his interpretative procedures have changed little during the course of his career, as has the overview of New Zealand writing that he fashions with them.
Stead, then, is not an habitual opposer: throughout those two decades he was more than happy with his pivotal place in the local literary A-team.
Stead inherits the family firm: for a while, then, it gives him a solid place to speak from and a secure set of plain-speaking principles with which to adjudicate and evaluate.
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