The judges, Kirsty Gunn and Vincent O’Sullivan, chaired by Angela Smith, were unanimous in their view that one of the essays, written by a postgraduate student, was outstanding in the originality of its approach and in the subtlety of its expression.
The winner is Rebecca Bowler’s essay ‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’.
It explores Katherine Mansfield’s attitude to the relation between what she called ‘life’ and work, the visual and the intellectual, emphasising doubleness in both Mansfield’s selves and in her aesthetics, a doubleness which led her to experiment with the literary Impression.
Rebecca Bowler, a PhD student at the University of Sheffield, will receive a prize of NZ$ 420 (£200), and her essay will appear in the journal Katherine Mansfield Studies (Volume 3), to be published in October 2011 by Edinburgh University Press (sent free to all members of the Society).
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