Bill Manhire
Author of Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories
About the Author
Bill Manhire is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, editor, and educator. He was born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1946. He attended the University of Otago. Manhire is an English professor at Victoria University with research interests in New Zealand literature and the literature of show more Antarctica. He is also the director of the school's creative writing program and the editor of "Mutes and Earthquakes," a book containing the work of several students. Manhire is New Zealand's Poet Laureate and was the Fullbright Visiting Professor in New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1999. Manhire has been publishing since 1970, producing almost 30 books. He has received the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry three times and the Montana Award. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Poetry Foundation
Works by Bill Manhire
Are Angels OK?: The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists (2006) — Editor — 16 copies, 1 review
The Exercise Book: Creative Writing Exercises from Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters (2013) 11 copies
Tell me my name : Bill Manhire riddles; Norman Meehan music; Hannah Griffinn song; Peter Peryeer photographs (2018) 3 copies
N.Z. Listener Short Stories — Editor — 2 copies
The Poet's Wife 1 copy
buddhist rain 1 copy
New Zealand writers : Bill Manhire, Hinemoana Baker, Hamish Clayton — Poet and Author — 1 copy
Associated Works
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France, French Writers in New Zealand (2006) — Contributor — 3 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1946-12-27
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Otago
University College, London
Otago Boys' High School, Dunedin, New Zealand - Occupations
- poet
creative writing teacher
short story writer - Organizations
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Awards and honors
- New Zealand Order of Merit (Companion, 2005)
Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (2007)
Artists to Antarctica (1997)
Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award (2005)
New Zealand Poet Laureate (1997)
Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship (2004) (show all 7)
Royal Society of New Zealand (Fellow) - Relationships
- Manhire, Toby (son)
McLeod, Marion (wife) - Nationality
- New Zealand
- Birthplace
- Invercargill, New Zealand
- Places of residence
- Invercargill, New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand - Associated Place (for map)
- New Zealand
Members
Reviews
This has got something for everyone - short stories, poems, essays, a Dylan Horrocks comic - which turned out to mean that most of it wasn't for me. (I have highly specific taste in poems, for instance: I need them to be telling a story, and preferably to do so in good metered rhyme.) But I did enjoy Elizabeth Knox's "Unobtainium", and though "Dead of Night" by Witi Ihimaera (with scientists Carmichael and Wiltshire) wasn't a unique concept it was told differently than I've seen it before, show more with some nice new twists.
Oddly I bounced entirely off the Margaret Mahy story. If you want to know what that's about you'll have to read it yourself. show less
Oddly I bounced entirely off the Margaret Mahy story. If you want to know what that's about you'll have to read it yourself. show less
I thought these were, generally, beautiful. Usually short stories are a mixed bag, but this is a distilled, purified collection.
There are many (many) collections of New Zealand short stories: this must be one of the best.
There are many (many) collections of New Zealand short stories: this must be one of the best.
I didn't really get this. I got that it was meant to be wacky, but I think kiwi humour is a bit, dare I say, upside down?
Awards
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 46
- Also by
- 9
- Members
- 365
- Popularity
- #65,882
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 68
- Languages
- 1
- Favorited
- 2