O.E. (Osmond Edward) Middleton, born in 1925 in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a writer of short stories, described as belonging to the vernacular critical realist tradition of Frank Sargeson[1]. He is the brother of noted New Zealand novelist Ian Middleton. Mentored by Sargeson in Auckland in the late 1950s, he moved to Dunedin to take up the Robert Burns Fellowship (1970) at the University of Otago. Prominent New Zealand author Janet Frame once said of Middleton, "O. E. Middleton is a fine writer... He's the only NZ writer who has made me weep over a story - one called The Stone in a volume of that title."[2] Middleton is the recipient of several awards including the Hubert Church Award and the 2006 Janet Frame Literary Award, and his Selected Stories shared first prize for Fiction in the New Zealand Book Awards in 1976. A full list of his publications can be found at the University of Auckland's NZ Literature File[1]. Further information can be found at the New Zealand Book Council's webpage on him[2].
Main works
- Short Stories (Wellington: Handcraft Press, 1954)
- The Stone and Other Stories (Auckland: Pilgrim Press, 1959)
- A Walk on the Beach (London: Joseph, 1964)
- The Loners (Wellington: Square & Circle, 1972)
- Selected Stories (Dunedin: McIndoe, 1975)
- Confessions of an Ocelot; and Not for a Seagull (Dunedin: McIndoe, 1979).
- The Big Room and Other Stories (Wellington: Steele Roberts, 1998)
External links
References
- ^ The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- ^ http://www.janetframe.org.nz/Awards.htm
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Middleton, O. E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Osmond Edward |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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