Ann Beaglehole

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Produktbeschreibung

I found this book almost painfully gripping to read, both because of the vividness of the style, but also because it so closely paralleled my own life experience as an immigrant of the 1950s, and my search for identity and a sense of belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775532637
• Artikelnr.: 38347522

Autorenporträt

Ann Beaglehole has worked variously as a historian, policy analyst, researcher, counsellor, and a lecturer. Her historical work has focused on European refugees before and after World War II. She has published numerous essays and journal articles, and she has won a variety of distinguished awards and prizes, including the Goethe-Institute Scholarship as Cultural Ambassador in Berlin (2001), the Department of Internal Affairs Award in Oral History International Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandies University (2000), New Zealand Founders' Society Annual Research Award for historical research (1998), New Zealand History Research Trust Fund Award in History (1993), the Claude McCarthy Fellow, Victoria University of Wellington, and the F.P. Wilson Prize for New Zealand History (1986). In addition she was awarded a Research Fellowship at Swinburn University of Technology in Melbourne 2006/2007 and was also based at the Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington to research and write a book on public policy approaches to refugees and asylum seekers in New Zealand. In 2006 she was awarded the International Writers Residency at Ledig House, New York, to work on a second novel.