Stevan Eldred-Grigg

James Smithies (University of Canterbury)

Ed. by Jennifer Lawn, Massey University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 9.1.2: New Zealand Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Doreen D'Cruz (Massey University), Jennifer Lawn (Massey University), John C. Ross (Massey University), Mark Williams (Victoria University of Wellington)

Dates

Born 1952
Activity 1977-ongoing

Places

Born in New Zealand
Active in New Zealand

Activities

Primary

Historian / Chronicler
Novelist

Resources

Stevan Eldred-Grigg's (1952-) writing spans the uneasy divide between history and literature. Always provocative, his publications have tended to polarise opinion. Despite his considerable contribution to New Zealand letters, he is a figure who has never been accepted with equanimity by professional historians and literary critics.

Eldred-Grigg was born in the Grey Valley on the West Coast of New Zealand, but was raised in suburban Christchurch by a mother with a working class background and a father who was part of an established and prosperous Canterbury farming family. This dual background has informed most of Eldred-Grigg's work, which has been almost exclusively based around historical and literary investigations into the New …

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Citation: Smithies, James. "Stevan Eldred-Grigg". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 03 April 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11700, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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