Stephanie de Montalk. Courtesy New Zealand Book Council.
Stephanie de Montalk (born 1945) is a New Zealand poet.[1]
Life[]
De Montalk was born in Wellington. She was educated at the Wellington Hospital School of Nursing and Victoria University of Wellington; at the latter she was joint winner of the original composition prize in 1997.[1]
She has worked as a registered nurse, a University hall warden, a video examiner for the Video Recordings Authority, and for ten years as a documentary film maker.[1]
She began writing creatively in 1996. Her work has since appeared in journals including Sport, Landfall, Southerly, London Magazine, NZ Books, Booknotes, NZ Listener, Fulcrum and Poetry NZ (in which she was a featured in issue XX), online publications Turbine and Best New Zealand Poems, and numerous anthologies of poetry and prose. Her poetry has been broadcast on National Radio and screened on TV1's Poet's Corner.[1]
She wrote a biography of her cousin, eccentric New Zealand poet Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, called The Unquiet World.[2]
Recognition[]
In 1997 her short story "The Waiting" was co-winner of the Novice Writers' Award in the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Awards.[1]
Animals Indoors, her debut poetry collection, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry award at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[1]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Five Poems (illustrated by Brendan O'Brien). Wellington: Fernbank Studio, 2000.
- Animals Indoors. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000.
- The Scientific Evidence of Dr. Wang. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2002.
- Cover Stories. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006.
- Vivid Familiar. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2009.
Novel[]
- The Fountain of Tears. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006.
Non-fiction[]
- Unquiet World: The life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001.
- How Does It Hurt? Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2014.
- Communicating Pain: Exploring suffering through language, literature and creative writing. London: Routledge, 2018.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 De Montalk, Stephanie, New Zealand Book Council. Web, Apr. 7, 2014.
- ↑ de Montalk, Stephanie (2001). Unquiet World: The life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk. Victoria University Press. ISBN 9780864734143.
- ↑ Search results = au:Stephanie de Montalk, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Apr. 7, 2014.
External links[]
- Prose
- Audio / video
- de Montalk, Stephanie at the Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive
- Books
- Stephanie de Montalk at Amazon.com
- About
- de Montalk, Stephanie at the New Zealand Book Council
- review of The Unquiet World at the New Zealand Herald
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