The End of the Century and Other Stories
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Date
1999
Identifier
Special Collections
Type
Publisher
Christchurch: Canterbury University Press; with kind permission
Abstract
Robert Burns Fellow 1994: Christine Johnston (b. 1950)
Christine Johnston remembers her time as Burns Fellow: ‘The Burns Fellowship could not have come to me at a better time. I had published my first novel “Blessed Art Thou Among Women” and had started on another. I was in the habit of writing short stories and several had been published or broadcast in the previous decade. A novel for young readers, [“The Haunting of Lara Lawson”], was about to be published [1995]. Blissfully optimistic, I enjoyed the luxury of a stipend and a pleasant room in the English Department. For that “annus mirabilis”, I am forever indebted to Charles Brasch and the Robert Burns Fellowship.’
Stories that Johnston wrote that year were among those published in The End of the Century and Other Stories.
Christine Johnston remembers her time as Burns Fellow: ‘The Burns Fellowship could not have come to me at a better time. I had published my first novel “Blessed Art Thou Among Women” and had started on another. I was in the habit of writing short stories and several had been published or broadcast in the previous decade. A novel for young readers, [“The Haunting of Lara Lawson”], was about to be published [1995]. Blissfully optimistic, I enjoyed the luxury of a stipend and a pleasant room in the English Department. For that “annus mirabilis”, I am forever indebted to Charles Brasch and the Robert Burns Fellowship.’
Stories that Johnston wrote that year were among those published in The End of the Century and Other Stories.
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Christine Johnston, “The End of the Century and Other Stories,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 16, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/index.php/items/show/10958.