The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories by C K Stead

The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories by C K Stead

This is the fifth in a series of collections of short stories from around the world. It offers examples from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Papua New Guinea and Tonga together with work from the longer established Anglophone literature of New Zealand. Many of the stories are about the island experience.

Christian Karlson Karl Stead ONZ, CBE (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism.[1]

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. He won the 2010 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for 'Last Season's Man'.

C. K. Stead was born in Auckland. For much of his career he was Professor of English at the University of Auckland, retiring in 1986 to write full-time. He received a CBE in 1985 and was admitted into the highest honour New Zealand can bestow, the Order of New Zealand in 2007. In August 2015, he was named the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2015 to 2017

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ISBN 13	9780571167654
ISBN 10	0571167659
Title	The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories
Author	C K Stead
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	1994-03-02
Number of pages	320
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