The New
Zealand Society of Authors is delighted to announce that the NZSA
Auckland Museum National Research Grant 2014 has been awarded to Douglas Lloyd Jenkins.
Douglas will use the NZSA Auckland
Museum Grant to research a biography of the early twentieth century Auckland
photographer Arthur Breckon focusing on the artist’s romantic engagement with
the sea. Douglas Lloyd Jenkins said ‘this is a great opportunity to undertake
research and writing on an early photographer whose images have long fascinated
me.’
Douglas is a full time non-fiction
writer and his previous works include At Home: A Century of New Zealand
Design, New Dreamland: Writing New Zealand Architecture and The
Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940, all of which were
published by Random House. His most recent book, Architecture of the Heart,
co-written with Lucy Hammonds, appeared under the MTG (Hawke’s Bay) imprint in
2013.
The judging
panel commented ‘this project was immediately exciting and clearly thought out.
Jenkins provided a strong and insightful narrative which will add to New
Zealand's historical literature’.
With grateful thanks to the support of the Auckland
Museum, the NZSA Auckland Museum National
Research Grant 2014 recipient
receives a grant of $3,500 and 4 weeks of accommodation at
the Michael King Writers Centre. In
2013 the National Research grant was awarded to Jenny Haworth who used the time to research her
non-fiction book Behind the Twisted Wire which is a study of how artists
reacted to their involvement in World War 1.
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