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The Otago Boys' High School Foundation
PO Box 11,
Dunedin, New Zealand
Tel +64 3 477 2546
Fax +64 3 477 5468
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell ONZM (1940-43), died in Wellington on 16th August 2009 aged 84.
Alistair Campbell |
In all, Alistair completed four novels and 17 collections of poems - winning many awards along the way, including the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry in 1982, Pacific Islands Artist's Award 1999, Hon D Litt (Victoria, 1999). He was the guest poet at the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts 1978; won a gold medal for TV drama at the La Spezia International Film Festival 1973; President PEN International (NZ Centre) 1977-79; Arts Council Scholarship in Letters 1990; writer in residence, Victoria University 1992.
He received a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for poetry in 2005 and was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the same year.
To read more about this brilliant writer and poet, please check out our Gone But Not Forgotten link and also In Memoriam.
