Majella Cullinane
Majella Cullinane | |
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Born | Limerick, Ireland |
Alma mater | University of St Andrews, Otago University |
Majella Cullinane, born in Limerick, Ireland is an author based in New Zealand.[1]
Background
Born and raised in Ireland, Cullinane became a New Zealand resident in 2008. She has a MLitt. in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and completed a PhD in Creative Practice at the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago.[2] Her doctoral advisors were Vincent O'Sullivan and Liam McIlvanney.[3] She currently lives in Port Chalmers, New Zealand.[4]
Cullinane draws inspiration for her work from myths and history, with her poems exploring nature and dreams, real and imagined people. Her collection Guarding the Flame takes its title from the myth surrounding Saint Bridgid’s flame in Kildare.
Works
- Guarding the Flame (Salmon Poetry, 2011), collection of poetry
- The Life of De'Ath (Steele Roberts Aotearoa, 2018), novel
- Whisper of a Crow's Wing (Salmon Poetry and Otago University Press, 2018)
Awards
Her first novel,The Life of De'Ath, was shortlisted for the 2016 Dundee International Book Prize.[4] and longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[5]
In 2014 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.[6]
Cullinane has also received a Seán Dunne Young Writers' Awards for Poetry, an Irish Arts Council Award[2] and the Hennessy XO/Irish Times Literary Award for Emerging Poetry.[7]
References
- ^ "Majella Cullinane". www.munsterlit.ie. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Majella Cullinane". New Zealand Society of Authors & Writers Association. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ Cullinane, Majella (2020). The colours of that place: setting and memory in Irish short fiction (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/9888.
- ^ a b "Dundee International Book Prize 2016 Shortlist Announced : News". University of Dundee. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ "Longlist 2019" New Zealand Book Awards Trust website. Retrieved 14 May 2019
- ^ "The Robert Burns Fellowship". Otago Fellows, University of Otago, New Zealand. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ "New Irish Writing – Hennessy Literary Awards: Winners through the decades". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
Further reading
Excerpts from Guarding the Flame
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- 1959 Ian Cross
- 1960 Maurice Duggan
- 1961 John Caselberg
- 1962 R.A.K. Mason
- 1963 Maurice Shadbolt
- 1964 Maurice Gee
- 1965 Janet Frame
- 1966–67 James K. Baxter
- 1968 Ruth Dallas
- 1969 Warren Dibble
- 1970 O. E. Middleton
- 1971 Noel Hilliard
- 1972 Ian Wedde
- 1973 Graham Billing
- 1974 Hone Tuwhare
- 1975 Witi Ihimaera
- 1976 Sam Hunt
- 1977 Keri Hulme
- 1977–78 Roger Hall
- 1978 Peter Olds
- 1979 Michael A. Noonan
- 1980 Philip Temple
- 1981–82 William Sewell
- 1983 Rawiri Paratene
- 1984 Brian Turner
- 1985–86 Cilla McQueen
- 1987 Robert Lord
- 1988 John Dickson
- 1989 Renée
- 1990 David Eggleton
- 1991 Lynley Hood
- 1992 Owen Marshall
- 1993 Stuart Hoar
- 1994 Christine Johnston
- 1995 Elspeth Sandys
- 1996 Bernadette Hall
- 1997 Paddy Richardson
- 1998–99 Michael King
- 1999 Paula Boock
- 2000 James Norcliffe
- 2001 Jo Randerson
- 2002 Alison Wong
- 2003 Nick Ascroft
- 2003 Sarah Quigley
- 2004 Kate Duignan
- 2005–06 Catherine Chidgey
- 2006 Dianne Ruth Pettis
- 2007 Laurence Fearnley
- 2008 Sue Wootton
- 2009 Michael Harlow
- 2010 Michele Powles
- 2011 Fiona Farrell
- 2012 Emma Neale
- 2013 David Howard
- 2014 Majella Cullinane
- 2015 Louise Wallace
- 2016 Victor Rodger
- 2017 Craig Cliff
- 2018 Rhian Gallagher
- 2019 Emily Duncan
- 2020 John Newton
- 2021 Becky Manawatu
- 2022 Albert Belz
- 2023 Kathryn van Beek
- 2024 Mikaela Nyman