Jill Trevelyan struck gold at the Alexander Turnbull Library when she stumbled upon a stash of more than 400 letters from Rita Angus to the composer Douglas Lilburn. Most of Angus’s personal papers were destroyed by her New Zealand-based family following her death in an effort to protect her privacy Read more »
The first biography of artist, Rita Angus by Jill Trevelyan was published this month thanks to a $35,000 Award from Copyright Licensing Ltd (CLL).
And applications are now open for other writer’s to benefit from this award for non-fiction works. Applicants have until 16 July to submit proposals to the 2008 CLL Writers’ Award; there will be two prizes of $35,000 awarded this year. Read more »
Te Papa Press publishes the first and only biography of one of New Zealand’s best-loved and most significant 20th century artists to mark the 100th anniversary of her birth. Born Henrietta Catherine Angus in March 1908, Rita Angus’s role as an artist was clear from an early age ‘Rita drew as soon as she could hold a pencil,’ said her sister Jean, ‘and never stopped’. Read more »
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