Ian Wedde
Ian Wedde is the author of eight novels, fifteen collections of poetry, two collections of essays, and a number of anthologies and art monographs. His most recent novel is The Reed Warbler (2020). His memoir, The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home , was published in 2014, and his Selected Poems in 2017. Wedde is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and grants. Among the most recent are the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in France (2005), a...See more
Ian Wedde is the author of eight novels, fifteen collections of poetry, two collections of essays, and a number of anthologies and art monographs. His most recent novel is The Reed Warbler (2020). His memoir, The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home , was published in 2014, and his Selected Poems in 2017. Wedde is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and grants. Among the most recent are the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in France (2005), a Fulbright New Zealand Travel Award to the USA (2006), an Arts Foundation Laureate Award (2006), a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland (2007), an ONZM (2010), and the Landfall Essay Prize (2010). In 2011-13 Wedde was New Zealand's poet laureate. He was awarded the Creative New Zealand Writers' Residency in Berlin 2013-14, and in 2014 the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (poetry). He lives and works in Auckland. See less
