Edmond, Dr Lauris Dorothy Biography 1991

EDMOND, Dr Lauris Dorothy
OBE 1986; Writer and Poet
Born Dannevirke, 2 April 1924, daughter of Lewis Herbert Scott and Fanny (née Price); married Trevor Charles Edmond, son of Charles and Ada Edmond, 1945; one son five daughters.
Education: Greenmeadows Primary School, Taradale School; Napier Girls High School; Wellington Teachers Training College, Teachers Certificate 1943; Speech Clinic, Christchurch Normal School, Speech Therapy Diploma 1944; Victoria University, part-time; Canterbury University, Part-time; Massey University, extramural; Waikato University, part-time, Bachelor of Arts 1967; Victoria University, Master of Arts 1971; Massey University, Honorary Doctor of Literature 1988.
Frequent readings, talks on own work; lectures in English Departments and Women’s Studies at Victoria, Waikato, Massey, Auckland Universities; Participant: Creative Writing Courses for Continuing Education Unit, Victoria University, Summer Schools, Wanganui, Otago University, Frank Sargeson Trust Residential School, Albany, 1982-1986; Admin, PEN Young Writers’ Incentive Award, 1974-1981, NZ Delegate, PEN Congress, Sydney 1977, Lyon 1981; National President, PEN NZ, 1980-1981; PEN Representative, Authors’ Fund, 1982-1985; Member, Stout Res Centre Board, 1986 -.  Katherine Mansfield Member Fellowship, 1981; Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 1985; Victoria University Writers Fellowship, 1987; Lilian Ida Smith Award for Poetry, PEN NZ, 1987; Writer in Res, Deakin University, Melbourne, 1985; Vis Performer: Cambridge Poetry Fest, 1985, Laufen Conf in Commonwealth Lit, West Germany 1986, Perth Arts Festival 1987, National Word Festival, Canberra 1987, Adelaide Festival 1988, NZ Festival of Arts 1988; Member, Writers Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs US tour, 1986.
Publications: Poetry: In Middle Air, 1975 (PEN NZ Best First Book Award, 1975); The Pear Tree and other poems, 1977; Wellington Letter, A Sequence of Poems, 1980; Seven, 1980; Salt from the North, 1980; Catching it, 1983; Selected Poems, 1984; Seasons and Creatures, 1986; Summer near the Arctic Circle, 1988; New and Selected Poems, 1991; Plays: The Mountain (for radio), 1981; Between Night and Morning (for stage), 1981; Fiction: High Country Weather, 1984; short stories; Autobiography: Hot October (Vol I), 1989, Bonfires in the Rain (Vol II), 1991; Editor: Dancing to my Tune, Poetry and prose by Denis Glover, 1973; Young Writing, 1979; Selected Letters of A R D Fairburn, 1981; Women in Wartime, 1986; Post Primary Teachers Journal, 1974-1981.
Recreations: music, books, friends, children, grandchildren, politics, the garden.
Address: 22 Grass Street, Oriental Bay, Wellington.