Diane Brown | |
Nationality: | New Zealander |
Awards: | Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit |
Website: | Official homepage |
Diane Edith Brown (born 1951) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.
Brown was born in 1951. She is based in Dunedin.[1]
Brown has published several novels and poetry collections including:
She is also the author of the memoirs Liars and Lovers (2004),[2] Here Comes Another Vital Moment (2006),[3] and Taking My Mother To The Opera (2015).[4]
Poetry by Brown has appeared in literary journals including Landfall, Poetry New Zealand, and New Zealand Listener.
Brown currently runs the creative writing school, Creative Writing Dunedin.[5]
In the 2013 New Year Honours, Brown was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, in recognition of services as a writer and educator.[6]
Before The Divorce We Go To Disneyland won the 1997 NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[7] Eight Stages of Grace was a finalist in the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[8]
Brown was the inaugural fellow at the Michael King Writer's Studio. In 1997 she was awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship with Shonagh Koea.[9] She was also awarded the 2013 Beatson Fellowship from Creative New Zealand[10] and in 2012 won the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award.[11]