C. K. Stead
Author of My Name Was Judas
About the Author
C. K. Stead is a critic, editor, poet, novelist, and educator from New Zealand. He was a professor of English at Auckland University. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, short stories, novels and literary criticism. He received a New Zealand Book Award in Poetry in 1976 for Quesada show more and a New Zealand Book Award in Fiction for The Singing Whakapapa in 1995. He is the only person to have won the New Zealand Book Award for both poetry and fiction. He received a third place Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1972 for Smith's Dream and a Montana Prize in 2009 for Collected Poems 1951-2006. He also received the Jessie Mackay award, the King's Lynn Poetry prize, the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, and the Sarah Broom prize. The National Library of New Zealand named C. K. Stead the 2015-2017 New Zealand Poet Laureate. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: C.K. Stead at the Order of New Zealand Dinner at Government House in Wellington on 12 August 2011. By New Zealand Government, Office of the Governor-General - https://gg.govt.nz/file/19618, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66655033
Works by C. K. Stead
Associated Works
From a room of their own: A celebration of the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship (1890) — Contributor — 4 copies
The colour of distance : New Zealand writers in France, French writers in New Zealand (2006) — Contributor — 2 copies
Katherine Mansfield's Men: Perspectives from the 2004 Katherine Mansfield Birthplace Lecture Series (2004) — Contributor — 2 copies
A Passion for Travel: New Zealand Writers & their Adventures Overseas (1998) — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Stead, Christian Karlson
- Other names
- Stead, Karl
- Birthdate
- 1932-10-17
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Birthplace
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Places of residence
- Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
England, UK - Education
- Mount Albert Grammar School
University of Auckland
University of Bristol - Occupations
- professor
novelist
poet
critic
editor
short-story writer - Organizations
- University of Auckland
- Awards and honors
- Order of the British Empire ( [1985])
Order of New Zealand (2007)
Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award (2010)
Michael King Writer’s Fellowship (2005)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship (1972)
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Statistics
- Works
- 47
- Also by
- 13
- Members
- 806
- Popularity
- #31,650
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 16
- ISBNs
- 151
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 4
Max becomes enamoured of another colleague Sylvie who is living with a German, Bertholdt Volker, a television producer. There is not a lot of future in this relationship, as Bertholdt has a wife and family in Germany whom he intends returning to.
One of Max's students, Helen White, seeks him out as she has discovered a book of poetry that he wrote when he was young. She admits to him that she is bipolar and is medicated with Lithium, her necessary angel. Max muses on whether Sylvie will become his necessary angel.
He embarks on relationships with both women but is forced to reconsider when it is discovered that a valuable painting has gone missing from his wife's flat, after he had foolishly taken Helen upstairs. A police case ensues although Louise unaware of Max's activity believes her cousins have stolen it.
This book provided a fresh setting and is peppered with literary references. At least I can now appreciate the references to V.S. Naipaul.… (more)