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Adrienne Jansen
New Zealand creative writing teacher, editor and writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adrienne Jansen is a New Zealand creative writing teacher, editor and a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has worked closely with immigrants, and her writing often relates to the migrant experience.
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Adrienne Jansen was born in Wellington in 1947.[1][2]
She worked as a writer at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa for 11 years.[1] She was also heavily involved in refugee resettlement and teaching ESOL (English for speakers of other languages).[1][3] In the 1980s, she helped set up the Porirua Language Project (now part of English Language Partners).[4][5][6] This background and her years of experience of living and working among immigrants is reflected in her writing (both fiction and non-fiction), which often focuses on the migrant experience.[7][6] She has frequently worked alongside migrants to help them tell their stories.[4][8]
Her published work includes fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, collections of poetry, short stories broadcast on radio and poems and stories in anthologies such as 4th Floor[9] and Best New Zealand Poems.[10] Her stories have been highly commended in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition ("War", 2002) and shortlisted for the BNZ Literary Awards.[1] She worked with Guy Jansen in the last years of his life on his book Sing New Zealand: the story of choral music in Aotearoa.[11]
In 1990, Jansen was a Winston Churchill Fellow, travelling to Canada and the United Kingdom to look at access to education for disadvantaged groups in those countries.[1][2] She founded the Creative Writing Programme at Whitireia Polytechnic in 1993.[1] This was the first full-year, full-time writing course in New Zealand, and it was designed by Jansen to be accessible to all and to encourage diversity and inclusiveness.[12] She was coordinator of the programme until 1999 and taught fiction and editing as well as writing several online courses until most of the programme was disestablished in 2019.[13][14] She was co-founder of Whitireia Creative Writing Programme's Escalator Press in 2013[5] and her novel The Score was the first book to be published by this new imprint.[4] In 2016, she helped set up Landing Press.[15][5]
Jansen has appeared at numerous author talks[16] and writing festivals.[17][8] She has also run creative writing workshops for Māori writers (with Huia Publishers), Pasifika writers (with Creative New Zealand) and in Vanuatu and Indonesia.[1]
Her manuscript "Light Keeping" was shortlisted for the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize.[18]
She lives in Titahi Bay, Porirua.[16]
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Non-fiction
- Neighbourhood Groups: ideas to get you started, co-authored with Sally Tripp (NZWEA, 1981; new ed. Whitcoulls, 1986)
- Having a Baby in New Zealand, co-authored with Ruth Dawson (Wellington Multicultural Educational Resource Centre, 1984), published in English, Samoan, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Khmer
- I Have in My Arms Both Ways (Bridget Williams Books, 1990, republished 2015)[19]
- The Crescent Moon: The Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand, with photographs by Ans Westra (Asia New Zealand Foundation, 2009)[20]
- Abdel's Favourites from the Marrakech Café, with Abdelghani El Adraoui (Marrakech Café, 2013)
- Migrant Journeys: New Zealand Taxi Drivers Tell Their Stories, with co-author Liz Grant (Bridget Williams Books, 2015)[2][21]
Children's non-fiction
- Borany's story (Learning Media, 1991), shortlisted for the LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award in 1992[22]
- Thirteen flavours (Learning Media, 1995)
- Asli's story (Learning Media, 2000)
- I say, you say (Learning Media, 2001)
- What's the difference? (Learning Media, 2001)
- Fear (Learning Media, 2002)
- A pot of gold; and, The clever farmer : folk tales from Vietnam (Learning Media, 2003)
Novels
- Spirit Writing (Harper Collins, 1999)
- Floating the Fish on Bamboo (Harper Collins, 2001)
- The Score (Escalator Press, 2013)[4]
- A Line of Sight (Escalator Press, 2015)
- A Change of Key (Escalator Press, 2018)[6][23]
- Light Keeping (Quentin Wilson Publishing, 2023)
Poetry
- A stone seat and a shadow tree (Inkweed, 2001)
- Keel & drift (Landing Press, 2016)[24]
- All of us (with Carina Gallegos) (Landing Press, 2018)[25][26]
As editor
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External links
- Author Profile: "Jansen, Adrienne" on Read NZ Te Pou Muramura website
References
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