Wednesday, August 14, 2013

News from PANZ

Canterbury University Press’ incoming publisher

Former Manaaki Whenua Press manager Catherine Montgomery assumed her new role at Canterbury University Press last month. She fills the vacancy created by Rachel Scott’s move to Dunedin earlier this year to replace the retiring Wendy Harrex at Otago University Press.

Catherine has enormous enthusiasm for her new list. An upcoming CUP title that really has her fizzing is Oliver Sutherland’s biography of his father titled
Paikea: The Life of I.L.G. Sutherland. “It is a compelling biography of a New Zealand intellectual. Sutherland was a liberal progressive, far ahead of his time. He was a friend of Apirana Ngata, and one of the first to realise Maori were not just pakeha with brown skins.

“Obviously I didn’t commission it, but it is a title I am proud to have in the list,” Catherine says.

A boy for Sophia

Our expectant Mum, PANZ administrator Sophia Broom, last week unexpectedly delivered a baby boy who was unwilling to wait his full term. Sophia and partner Roman are surprised but thrilled – and so surprised that the young man does not yet have a name. Despite the premature birth, Mum and son are doing well but will have a longer than average stay in hospital.

 

Welcome to Katherine Shanks

Katherine, former Publishing Manager at Anne Geddes Publishing, joins PANZ as Membership Services Manager.  The new part time job is her first following a break for maternity leave. More on Katherine and her part in PANZ in our next issue.


 

 

 


 


 

 


 

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