C. K. Stead

Christian Karlson Stead was born in Auckland on 17 October 1932. A graduate of the University of Auckland, with a doctorate from the University of Bristol in 1961, he taught English at Auckland from 1959, became a professor there in 1968 and left the university in 1986 to devote himself to writing. An opponent of the Vietnam War, a poet, novelist and essayist, he was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2007 and was the country's poet laureate from 2015 to 2017.

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