Poet and independent
scholar John Newton presents the tenth annual Frank Sargeson Memorial lecture
at the University of Waikato on Thursday. The lecture – The bad difficult years: Sargeson’s Post-War Reconstruction –
focuses on Sargeson’s evolution as a writer – how and why his writing changed
after the Second World War.
John Newton says, “The
author of the classic early stories is almost unrecognisable in his later
fiction, and I’ll be trying to make sense of this curious evolution.”
Dr Sarah Shieff, the
editor of Letters of Frank Sargeson
and the organiser of the lecture series, says this year’s lecture will shed new
light on Sargeson’s career, and on a whole era of New Zealand’s literary
history.
Sargeson (above photo by John Reece Cole) was a mentor
to many writers and each year the Buddle Findlay Sargeson literary fellowship
is offered in partnership with the Frank Sargeson Trust. Previous fellows have included winners in the
book awards earlier this month: Paula Morris, Sue Orr and Sarah Quigley.
Applications for 2013, the 110th anniversary of the writer’s birth,
open next month.
The Bad Difficult Years, John Newton
Date: Thursday 16
August 2012
Time: Lecture begins
at 5.30pm. Light refreshments from 6.30pm.
Venue: S.G.01, University
of Waikato
Parking Gate 1, off
Knighton Road, Hamilton
RSVP Please RSVP to
Hannah Wright by Monday 13 August
hwright@waikato.ac.nz or call (07) 838 4922
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