Airini Beautrais

Airini Beautrais (born 1982) is a poet from New Zealand.

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Airini Beautrais
Born1982 (age 38–39)
New Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Alma materVictoria University of Wellington
Notable worksSecret Heart
Notable awardsNZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry

Background

Beautrais was born in 1982 grew up in Auckland and Whanganui.[1] She studied creative writing and ecological science at the Victoria University of Wellington.[2] In 2016 she received her PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters.[3][4]

Beautrais currently lives in Whanganui.[2]

Works

Beautrais's writing draws on her personal experiences, and is often set in her hometown of Whanganui.[5]

Beautrais has published four collections of poetry with Victoria University Press: Secret Heart (2006); Western Line (2011); Dear Neil Roberts (VUP, 2014); and Flow: Whanganui River Poems (2017).[2] In 2020 Victoria University Press published a collection of her short stories, titled Bug Week & Other Stories,[6] which was longlisted for the Fiction award at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[7]

She has been published in the Best New Zealand Poems series (2016)[8] and literary journals, including Overland, [9] and Penduline.[10]

Awards

Beautrais's first collection of poetry, Secret Heart, was awarded the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry at the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[11]

Dear Neil Roberts was longlisted in the poetry category of the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Award.[12]

In 2016 she was shortlisted for the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize.[13]

Beautrais won the 2016 Landfall Essay Competition.[3]

References
  1. Beautrais, Airini (2015). Dear Neil Roberts. Victoria University Press. ISBN 9781776560141.
  2. "Airini Beautrais". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  3. "Airini Beautrais wins Landfall Essay Competition 2016". University of Otago. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  4. "BNZP 2016 Airini Beautrais". Best New Zealand Poems. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  5. "Interview with Airini Beautrais". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  6. Beautrais, Airini. Bug week : & other stories. Wellington, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-77656-305-0. OCLC 1182024497.
  7. "Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlists announced". Books+Publishing. 28 January 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  8. "Best New Zealand Poems 2016". Best New Zealand Poems. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  9. "Flow". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  10. "A pair of hands". Penduline Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  11. "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  12. "Previous Longlist 2016". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  13. "Sarah Broom Poetry Award Finalists". NZ Poetry Shelf. 3 May 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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