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Rachel Barrowman

Rachel Barrowman

New Zealand author

Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a New Zealand author and historian, with a focus on New Zealand cultural and intellectual history.[1]

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Career

Barrowman's biography of R.A.K. Mason, Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason, won the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Award in the biography category.[2] In 2010, Barrowman received the Michael King Writer's Fellowship from Creative New Zealand to write a biography of Maurice Gee.[1][3] The book, Maurice Gee: Life and Work , was a finalist for the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[4] Barrowman has also received the National Library Fellowship and the Stout Research Centre Fellowship.[1]

Personal life

Barrowman was born and resides in Wellington.[5]

Published books

  • A Popular Vision: the Arts and the Left in New Zealand, 1930–1950 (1991, Victoria University Press)
  • The Turnbull: a Library and Its World (1995, Auckland University Press)
  • Victoria University of Wellington, 1899–1999: A History (1999, Victoria University Press)
  • Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason (2003, Victoria University Press)
  • Maurice Gee: Life and Work (2015, Victoria University Press)

Barrowman is also an editor of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "2010 Writers in Residence". Michael King Writers' Centre. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Rachel Barrowman awarded the largest writing fellowship in New Zealand". The Big Idea. 24 June 2006. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Ockham NZ Book Awards 2016 winners and finalists". The Listener. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  5. [5]
    "Rachel Barrowman". The Spinoff. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  6. [6]
    "Rachel Barrowman". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

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