Our grandson Zach and Anna Kidman were married last year. :Anna is Advertising and Editorial Manager at Design Folio.
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Looking Back from the Centre
Looking Back from the Centre: A Snapshot of Contemporary New Zealand Education ed. Joanna Kidman & Ken Stevens, pub. Victoria University Press 2010 My daughter Joanna Kidman worked for the School of Education at Victoria University for several years. When the School became the part of the new Faculty of Education, she was one of …
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Launch of Where Your Left Hand Rests
To mark my 70th birthday, Godwit, Random House published a beautiful pocketbook sized edition of my poems, illustrated with reproductions of Victorian fabrics from the collection of Victorian Gilt antique collectibles. The book was launched at Unity Books. My daughter Joanna Kidman gave one of the …
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Randell Cottage Writers Trust
I am a Board Member of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust and Friends of the Randell Cottage located in Thorndon, Wellington.
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Raphael Kidman and the Jack Lasenby Award for Writing
My grandson Raphael Kidman won the Jack Lasenby Award for Writing. He and I appeared together in the Dominion Post. The reporter suggested I might be an influence, but Raphael’s wit is all his own.
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Dame Becomes a Knight
Excerpts from the Bookman Beattie files, written by Mary McCallum, June 11 2009: Dame Fiona Kidman has become a knight – or more exactly a ‘Chevalier d’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’. The surprise honour was presented at the home of the French Ambassador at a celebration of Dame Fiona Kidman’s latest book – Beside …
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Writing spaces
Some of the places where I write:
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Views
This is the view from my house, overlooking Cook Strait, that divides the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
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At the end of Darwin Road book launch
March 2008 saw the launch of Fiona’s first book of memoirs At the end of Darwin Road at the Circa theatre. Owen Marshall’s speech can be read on Graeme Beattie’s book blog.
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Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Fellowship
2006 – A picture, a small story and a poem and from one of the most magical years of my life: Katherine Mansfield’s shawl— My tenure of the KM Fellowship coincided with the rediscovery of Katherine Mansfield’s silk shawl which had been stored in a cardboard carton in the city’s municipal buildings for more than …
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