John Caselberg was a prominent New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 writer, based in Dunedin. His work ranged through poetry and playwriting to short stories and essays. Along with his wife, artist Anna Caselberg, he was at the centre of a thriving art and literary milieu which included his good friend and collaborator Colin McCahon

Colin McCahon

Colin John McCahon was a prominent New Zealand artist. During his life he also worked in art galleries and as a university lecturer...

, father-in-law Toss Woollaston

Toss Woollaston

Sir Mountford Tosswill "Toss" Woollaston was one of the most important New Zealand painters of the 20th century.Born in Toko, Taranaki on April 11, 1910, Woollaston studied art at the Canterbury School of Art in Christchurch...

, and writer Charles Brasch

Charles Brasch

Charles Orwell Brasch was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal Landfall....

. Caselberg was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship

Robert Burns Fellowship

The Robert Burns Fellowship, established in 1958 as a bicentennial celebration, is claimed to be New Zealand's premier literary residency. The list of past fellows includes many of New Zealand's most notable writers....

 from Otago University in 1961.

The Caselberg Trust, a charitable trust supporing artists, is named in honour of John and Anna Caselberg.

External links

• Caselberg Trust biography