Joan Rosier-Jones (27 December 1940 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a
novelist, playwright, short story writer and nonfiction writer, and
teacher. She completed a Teacher's- A Certificate in Christchurch
Teacher's College in 1958â€"59 and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in
History and English.[1]Joan Rosier-Jones has been a primary teacher
and later taught creative writing to adults. She has written writing
courses for the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies[2] and
supported up-and-coming New Zealand writers. Rosier-Jones was
president of New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN New Zealand Inc.),[3]
the New Zealand writers' "union" and NZ PEN, from 1999â€"2001.[4] She
has lived in London, Wellington, and Auckland for 30 years and
currently resides with her husband Fergus in Whanganui, a river city
in the North Island of New Zealand. She has one son and one daughter.
A passionate advocate of New Zealand writing she has published several
how to do books about writing. She has also contributed articles to
"Metro," "Next" and "New Zealand Author."[5]Joan Rosier-Jones
published in 1985 her first novel Cast two Shadows. The novel is set
during the 1978 Bastion Point land protest.[6] In 1986, she was
awarded a Literary Fund's Writers' Bursary $10,000, which allowed her
to work full-time on her second novel Voyagers. New Zealand writer
Fiona Kidman described it as a novel "marked by prodigious and
impressive research ... immensely satisfying and
thought-provoking."[7] 1990, she published Canterbury Tales, which
looks into the lives of a group of travellers on a South Island train.
"The allegory of Chaucer's masterpiece is obvious but that does not
detract from this book being an entertaining and well constructed
read-indeed it probably adds to it.( Daily Telegraph),[8] Her third
novel Mother Tongue (1996) is set in an imagined future where a Maori
dictatorship is ruling New Zealand. Crossing the Alps ( 2012) the
protagonist Hannah Francis, born of an American father and New
Zealand-Irish mother, has been brought up in New York by her father
and grandmother. Now an adult, she is on her way back to New Zealand
to enter a rehab centre to deal with her alcoholism. Waiting for
Elizabeth (2013) is set in Ireland 1565. It features 'Old English'
Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond, is waiting for his Queen, Elizabeth and
is a story, of romance and political intrigue.[9]
novelist, playwright, short story writer and nonfiction writer, and
teacher. She completed a Teacher's- A Certificate in Christchurch
Teacher's College in 1958â€"59 and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in
History and English.[1]Joan Rosier-Jones has been a primary teacher
and later taught creative writing to adults. She has written writing
courses for the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies[2] and
supported up-and-coming New Zealand writers. Rosier-Jones was
president of New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN New Zealand Inc.),[3]
the New Zealand writers' "union" and NZ PEN, from 1999â€"2001.[4] She
has lived in London, Wellington, and Auckland for 30 years and
currently resides with her husband Fergus in Whanganui, a river city
in the North Island of New Zealand. She has one son and one daughter.
A passionate advocate of New Zealand writing she has published several
how to do books about writing. She has also contributed articles to
"Metro," "Next" and "New Zealand Author."[5]Joan Rosier-Jones
published in 1985 her first novel Cast two Shadows. The novel is set
during the 1978 Bastion Point land protest.[6] In 1986, she was
awarded a Literary Fund's Writers' Bursary $10,000, which allowed her
to work full-time on her second novel Voyagers. New Zealand writer
Fiona Kidman described it as a novel "marked by prodigious and
impressive research ... immensely satisfying and
thought-provoking."[7] 1990, she published Canterbury Tales, which
looks into the lives of a group of travellers on a South Island train.
"The allegory of Chaucer's masterpiece is obvious but that does not
detract from this book being an entertaining and well constructed
read-indeed it probably adds to it.( Daily Telegraph),[8] Her third
novel Mother Tongue (1996) is set in an imagined future where a Maori
dictatorship is ruling New Zealand. Crossing the Alps ( 2012) the
protagonist Hannah Francis, born of an American father and New
Zealand-Irish mother, has been brought up in New York by her father
and grandmother. Now an adult, she is on her way back to New Zealand
to enter a rehab centre to deal with her alcoholism. Waiting for
Elizabeth (2013) is set in Ireland 1565. It features 'Old English'
Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond, is waiting for his Queen, Elizabeth and
is a story, of romance and political intrigue.[9]
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