The New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize, formerly known as the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship and then the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, is one of New Zealand

New Zealand

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s foremost literary awards. Named after Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield left for Great Britain in 1908 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and...

, one of 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...

s leading historical writers, the award gives winners (fellows, whether male or female) funding towards transport to and accommodation in Menton, France, where Katherine Mansfield went when her health declined.

The prize is open to New Zealand citizens and residents whose fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, children’s fiction or playwriting has had favourable impact. Unlike the Montana New Zealand Book Awards

Montana New Zealand Book Awards

The New Zealand Post Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards...

, which are the other widely-known New Zealand literary award

Literary award

A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...

s, the Katherine Mansfield Prize is to an individual to develop their future work, rather than for a specific already-published work.

The prize is awarded Winn-Manson Menton Trust, set up by Celia Manson and Sheilah Winn, but administered by Creative New Zealand

Creative New Zealand

The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets and audiences for New Zealand arts domestically and internationally...

 (a crown entity).

Recipients

Year	Recipient / Fellow
2010	Ken Duncum Ken Duncum Ken Duncum is a leading New Zealand playwright and screenwriter. His scripts have won awards in theatre and television. His plays Cherish and Trick of the Light won best new New Zealand play at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards in 2003 and 2004...
2009	Jenny Pattrick
2008	Damien Wilkins
2007	Stuart Hoar
2006	Fiona Kidman Fiona Kidman Dame Fiona Judith Kidman, DNZM, OBE , is a New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story author....
2005	Ian Wedde Ian Wedde Ian Curtis Wedde ONZM is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator.-Biography:Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended King's College and University of Auckland, graduating with an MA in...
2004	Bill Manhire Bill Manhire William "Bill" Manhire, CNZM is an award-winning New Zealand poet, short story writer, and professor, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate.-Biography:...
2003	Tessa Duder Tessa Duder Tessa Duder née Stavely is a New Zealand swimming champion and author of novels for young people, short stories, plays and non-fiction. She is primarily known for her Alex quartet. As an editor, she has also published a number of anthologies.-Early life:Tessa Staveley was born in 1940 in...
2002	Jenny Bornholdt Jenny Bornholdt Jennifer Mary Bornholdt is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist.-Biography:Born in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism...
2001	Catherine Chidgey Catherine Chidgey Catherine Chidgey was born in New Zealand in 1970 and grew up in the Hutt Valley. She has degrees in creative writing, psychology, and German literature....
2000	Stephanie Johnson
1999	Elizabeth Knox Elizabeth Knox Elizabeth Fiona Knox, ONZM, is an award-winning New Zealand writer. She has authored eight novels, an autobiographical trilogy of novellas, a fantasy duet for young adults, and a collection of essays...
1998	Maurice Shadbolt Maurice Shadbolt Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt CBE was a New Zealand writer and playwright. He was born in Auckland, and educated at Te Kuiti High School, Avondale College and Auckland University College...
1997	Roger Hall Roger Hall Roger Leighton Hall, CNZM, QSO is a British born New Zealander actor and playwright, known for his comedies that carry a serious vein of social criticism and feelings of pathos.-Early years:...
1996	Owen Marshall Owen Marshall Owen Marshall is the pen name of Owen Marshall Jones, a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. The third son of a Methodist minister and older brother of Rhys Jones, he came of age in Blenheim and Timaru, and graduated from the University of Canterbury with an MA in English in 1964...
1995	Fiona Farrell Fiona Farrell Fiona Farrell is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer and playwright. Her latest novel, Limestone, was published in April 2009. The Broken Book, was published by Auckland University Press 2011 .-Bibliography:...
1994	Vincent O’Sullivan
1993	Witi Ihimaera Witi Ihimaera Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, DCNZM, QSM , generally known as Witi Ihimaera , is a New Zealand author, and is often regarded as one of the most prominent Māori writers alive.-Biography:...
1992	Maurice Gee Maurice Gee Maurice Gee is a New Zealand novelist.-Awards and honors:Gee was awarded the 1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Plumb...
1991	Nigel Cox
1990	Lisa Greenwood
1989	Lloyd Jones Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author) Lloyd Jones is a New Zealand author who currently resides in Wellington. His novel Mister Pip won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker.-Early life and education:...
1988	Louis Johnson Louis Johnson (poet) -Life:He graduated from Wellington Teachers’ Training College.From 1968 to 1980, Johnson lived overseas and traveled widely, with an extended stay in Papua New Guinea....
1987	Russell Haley
1986	Michael Harlow
1985	Michael Gifkins
1984	Rowley Habib
1983	Allen Curnow Allen Curnow Thomas Allen Munro Curnow ONZ CBE was a New Zealand poet and journalist. Curnow was born in Timaru and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, Canterbury University, and Auckland University...
1982	Michael Jackson Michael Jackson (poet) Michael Jackson is a poet, anthropologist, and academic.-Education:Jackson studied at Victoria University of Wellington, Auckland University, and Cambridge University...
1981	Lauris Edmond Lauris Edmond Lauris Dorothy Edmond was a New Zealand poet and writer. Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, she survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child. Trained as a teacher, Edmond raised a family before publishing the poetry she had privately written throughout her life...
1980	Marilyn Duckworth Marilyn Duckworth Marilyn Duckworth OBE is a novelist, poet and short story writer. She has published sixteen novels, one novella, a collection of short stories and a collection of poetry. She has also written for television and radio....
1979	Philip Temple Philip Temple Philip Temple is a Dunedin-based New Zealand author of novels, children's stories, and non-fiction...
1978	Spiro Zavos Spiro Zavos Spiro Zavos is an Australasian historian, philosopher, journalist and writer...
1977	Barry Mitcalfe Barry Mitcalfe Barry Mitcalfe was a New Zealand poet, editor, and peace activist. Born 31 March 1930 in Wellington, New Zealand, Mitcalfe studied at Victoria University of Wellington, where he received a Diploma in Education in 1962, and a Bachelor of Arts in 1963...
1976	Michael King Michael King Michael King, OBE was a New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including The Penguin History of New Zealand, which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004.-Life:King was born in Wellington to Eleanor and Commander Lewis...
1975	David Mitchell
1974	Janet Frame Janet Frame Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful...
1973	James McNeish James McNeish Sir James Henry Peter McNeish, KNZM , a New Zealand novelist, playwright and biographer, was born in Auckland in 1931 and travelled the world as a young man - working as a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter in 1958, and recording folk music in 21 countries...
1972	C K Stead
1971	Margaret Scott
1970	Owen Leeming