Lynda Chanwai-Earle is a New Zealand writer and radio producer. Her
written work includes plays, poems and film scripts. The play Ka Shue
â€" Letters Home in 1996 is semi-autobiographical and is significant
in New Zealand literature as the first authentically New
Zealandâ€"Chinese play for mainstream audiences.The daughter of a
Chinese mother and a PÄ kehÄ father, she was born in London and spent
her early years in Papua New Guinea, completing her schooling in New
Zealand. She studied fine arts at the Elam School of Fine Arts, drama
at the University of Auckland and script writing at Victoria
University of Wellington.[1][2]Lynda Chanwai-Earle's poetry has
appeared in literary journals in New Zealand and elsewhere including
Landfall, Hecate and Antic. Her poems are included in the anthologies
Sevensome (1993) and Going Solo (1997).Chanwai-Earle represented New
Zealand at the inaugural Hong Kong Literary Festival in 2001 and was
the NZ Poet Delegate attending the 2002 Asia-Pacific Conference on
Indigenous and Contemporary Poetry in Manila, Philippines. In 2003 she
was the Trans-Tasman writer at the 2003 Queensland Poetry Festival,
she also attended the Shanghai Literary Festival in 2005.[3] In 2015
at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou Chanwai-Earle was the inaugural
NZ writer in resident.[2]
written work includes plays, poems and film scripts. The play Ka Shue
â€" Letters Home in 1996 is semi-autobiographical and is significant
in New Zealand literature as the first authentically New
Zealandâ€"Chinese play for mainstream audiences.The daughter of a
Chinese mother and a PÄ kehÄ father, she was born in London and spent
her early years in Papua New Guinea, completing her schooling in New
Zealand. She studied fine arts at the Elam School of Fine Arts, drama
at the University of Auckland and script writing at Victoria
University of Wellington.[1][2]Lynda Chanwai-Earle's poetry has
appeared in literary journals in New Zealand and elsewhere including
Landfall, Hecate and Antic. Her poems are included in the anthologies
Sevensome (1993) and Going Solo (1997).Chanwai-Earle represented New
Zealand at the inaugural Hong Kong Literary Festival in 2001 and was
the NZ Poet Delegate attending the 2002 Asia-Pacific Conference on
Indigenous and Contemporary Poetry in Manila, Philippines. In 2003 she
was the Trans-Tasman writer at the 2003 Queensland Poetry Festival,
she also attended the Shanghai Literary Festival in 2005.[3] In 2015
at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou Chanwai-Earle was the inaugural
NZ writer in resident.[2]
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