As the Earth Turns Silver
Creator
Date
2009
Identifier
Central PR9642 W659 A8
Type
Publisher
North Shore, New Zealand: Penguin; with kind permission
Abstract
Robert Burns Fellow 2002: Alison Wong (b. 1960)
Alison Wong remembers her Burns tenure:
‘I loved my year as Burns Fellow. The Fellowship gave financial support but also encouragement and recognition at a time when I had yet to publish a book. Dunedin and Otago/Southland entered into the novel I was writing (“As the Earth Turns Silver”, above) and into poems published in my collection, “Cup” (2006). I am grateful to the many people who helped in my research whether academics or other experts in their fields, and thankful for the warmth of the welcome and enduring friendships. I have a deep affection for this intimate and beautiful city.’
Wong’s novel, As the Earth Turns Silver, won the Fiction Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2010.
Alison Wong remembers her Burns tenure:
‘I loved my year as Burns Fellow. The Fellowship gave financial support but also encouragement and recognition at a time when I had yet to publish a book. Dunedin and Otago/Southland entered into the novel I was writing (“As the Earth Turns Silver”, above) and into poems published in my collection, “Cup” (2006). I am grateful to the many people who helped in my research whether academics or other experts in their fields, and thankful for the warmth of the welcome and enduring friendships. I have a deep affection for this intimate and beautiful city.’
Wong’s novel, As the Earth Turns Silver, won the Fiction Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards in 2010.
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Alison Wong, “As the Earth Turns Silver,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed April 27, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10965.