Lydia Wevers

Lydia Joyce Wevers ONZM (born 1950) is a New Zealand literary critic, English language literary historian, editor, and book reviewer.[1] She is a Royal Society of New Zealand 150 women in 150 words laureate.[2]

Biography

Wevers moved to New Zealand from the Netherlands in 1953.

Wevers is a former vice-president of the New Zealand Book Council, and currently chairs the Trustees of the National Library. She was a member of the 2001 selection panel for the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Awards and is a member of the Arts Board of Creative New Zealand.

In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, Wevers was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.[3]

Wevers is currently the director of the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington and reviews books for Nine to Noon on National Radio as well as major newspapers, journals, and magazines.

Wevers lives in Wellington.

Literary works (as author, editor or contributor)
  • 1984 Selected poems/Robin Hyde
  • 1987 Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1850s-1930s
  • 1989 Goodbye to Romance: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women 1930s –1980s
  • 1990 Tabasco Sauce and Ice Cream: Stories by New Zealanders[4]
  • 2000 Travelling to New Zealand: An Oxford Anthology[5]
  • 2002 Country of Writing: Travel Writing About New Zealand 1809-1900[6]
  • 2004 On Reading
  • 2010 Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World[7]

See also

References
  1. Wever's biography at The New Zealand Book Council
  2. "150 Women in 150 Words". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  3. "Queen's Birthday honours list 2006". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  4. Wevers, Lydia (1990). Tabasco Sauce and Ice Cream: Stories by New Zealanders. Macmillan. pp. 176 pages. ISBN 9780333416365.
  5. Wevers, Lydia (2000). Travelling to New Zealand : an Oxford anthology. Auckland, New Zealand: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195584112.
  6. Wevers, Lydia (2002). Country of Writing: Travel Writing and New Zealand, 1809-1900. Auckland University Press. pp. 234 pages. ISBN 9781869402716.
  7. Wevers, Lydia (August 2010). Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World. Victoria University Press. pp. 344pp. ISBN 9780864736352.
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