Wellington and Wairarapa

Below are the literary figures, literary locations and literary quotes from the Wellington and Wairarapa region of the Aotearoa New Zealand Literary Map.

Literary Figures

Pahiatua
Linda Burgess 1948
Nigel Cox 1951- 2006

Feilding
David Geary 1963
WH Oliver 1925
Norman Bilbrough 1941

Palmerston North
James Brown 1966
Meg Campbell 1937
John Reece Cole 1916-1984
Ian Richards 1958
Guthrie Wilson 1914

Foxton
Graeme Lay 1944

Levin
Joy Cowley 1936

Otaki
Vivienne Jepsen 1950

Porirua
Mike Riddell 1953

Masterton
Janet Slater Bottin 1940
Ian Cross 1925

Carterton
Barbara Ewing c.1945

Featherston
Bernard Beckett 1967
Ruth Gilbert 1917

Hutt Valley
Jenny Bornholdt 1960
Lindsay Charman-Love 1949
Catherine Chidgey 1970
Jan Hutchison 1932
Andrew Johnston 1963
Bob Jones 1939
Lloyd Jones 1955
Alan Loney 1940
Gary McCormick 1951
Chris Orsman 1955
Roma Potiki 1958
Apirana Taylor 1955
William Taylor 1938
Damien Wilkins 1963
Noel Virtue 1947
Phillip Wilson 1922-2001

Wellington
Rachel Barrowman 1963
JC Beaglehole 1901-1971
Elsdon Best 1856-1931
Riwia Brown 1957
Kate Camp 1972
Jane Campion 1954
Frances Cherry 1937
Geoff Cochrane 1951
Christine Cole Catley 1922
Jennifer Compton 1949
Kate Duignan 1974
Anne French 1956
James George 1962
Michael Gifkins 1945
Patricia Grace 1937
Kirsty Gunn 1960
Adrienne Jansen 1947
Louis Johnson 1924-1988
Sheridan Keith
Anne Kennedy 1959
Bob Kerr 1951
Michael King 1945-2004
Elizabeth Knox 1959
Pat Lawlor 1893-1979
Graham Lindsay 1952
Anna Livesey 1979
Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923
Bruce Mason 1921-82
Trixie Te Arama Menzies 1936
Barry Mitcalfe 1930-1986
David Mitchell 1940
Stephen Oliver 1950
Rebekah Palmer 1969
Jenny Pattrick 1936
Vernice Wineera Pere
Mark Pirie 1974
Hugh Price 1929
Beverley Randell 1931
Pat Quinn 1947
Laura Ranger 1984
Rosie Scott 1948
Judith White 1948

Literary Locations

Wellington
Alexander Turnbull Library
New Zealand Book Council
Wellington Writers Walk
Katherine Mansfield Birthplace and Garden
Randell Cottage

Literary Fellowships/Institutions

Wellington
Victoria University Writers Fellowship
International Institute of Modern Letters

Literary Quotes

'In Plimmerton, in Plimmerton,
The little penguins play,
And one dead albatross was found
At Karehana Bay.'
Denis Glover 'Threnody'

'In less than an hour they'd be in Wellington ... Their first view of the city was of heavy sky dropped over the purple water of the harbour, the dark shapes of hills showing through it. There were smudges that were ships and sheds and unfinished buildings. The train slowed, laying back white smoke, sounding its whistle and creaking along the tracks past the dirty sheds, over oily, broken rock, to where the yards began. This was the end of the line.'
Patricia Grace Tu

'Then out of the tunnel and Wellington burst like a bomb. It opened like a flower, was lit up like a room, explained itself exactly, became the capital.'
Maurice Gee Going West (plaque on Wellington Writers Walk)

'Yet a day when you don't expect it,
sheer glitter ringing about
as if all the cutlery drawers of Kelburn
had been tipped out...'
Vincent O'Sullivan 'July, July'

'We were Aucklanders, some Otago and Taranaki boys, a few Cantabs and Wellingtonians: Stead was a lone
Southlander, Corbett a sole West Coaster, and Hunter came out of a place near Wanganui with a Maori name in which every sound spoke of bush-creeping isolation. The larger sense of who we were hadn't yet forged itself. But in small telling ways, through gesture and anecdote, we revealed ourselves to one another.'
Lloyd Jones The Book of Fame