C. K. Stead New Zealand

C. K. Stead is a distinguished, award-winning novelist,
literary critic, poet, essayist and Emeritus Professor of
English at the University of Auckland. He was the New
Zealand Poet Laureate from 2015–2017, has won the Prime
Minister’s Award for Fiction and is a Member of the Order
of New Zealand, the highest honour possible in New
Zealand.

(2023)