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Cilla McQueen (Priscilla Muriel McQueen) was born on 22 January, 1949 in Birmingham, England, is a New Zealand poet (born 1949). Discover Cilla McQueen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Priscilla Muriel McQueen
Occupation Poet
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 22 January 1949
Birthday 22 January
Birthplace Birmingham, England
Nationality New Zealand

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Her husband is Ralph Hotere (m. 1974-1986)

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1949

Priscilla Muriel McQueen (born 22 January 1949 in Birmingham, England) is a poet and three-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.

McQueen's family moved to New Zealand when she was four.

1971

She was educated at Columba College in Dunedin and University of Otago (Master's with first-class Honours in 1971).

1973

McQueen was married to New Zealand artist Ralph Hotere from 1973 until the 1990s, and together they set up a studio and living space at Careys Bay, near Port Chalmers.

She currently lives in Bluff, at the southern tip of New Zealand's South Island.

McQueen's work includes a variety of poetry books and poems over the past twenty-five years, including these volumes:

1983

Other awards include: NZ Book Award for Poetry 1983, 1989 and 1991; Robert Burns Fellowship at Otago University 1985 & 1986; Fulbright Visiting Writer's Fellowship 1985; Inaugural Australia-New Zealand Writer's Exchange Fellowship 1987; Goethe Institute Scholarship to Berlin 1988; NZ Queen Elizabeth Arts Council Scholarship in Letters 1992.

1999

In 1999 McQueen was awarded the Southland Art Foundation Artist in Residence award, which allowed her to develop both poetry and painting simultaneously.

2008

Awarded honorary Doctorate in Literature by University of Otago in 2008.

A poet and artist, she has published many collections, including two sound recordings and two selected works, of her poetry.

2009

In 2009 she was named New Zealand Poet Laureate.

2010

She also received the Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement (Poetry) in 2010.

2015

Recent exhibitions of her art work include "Picture Poem", works by Cilla McQueen and Joanna Paul, at the Hocken Library, Dunedin, 2015 and an exhibition of intuitive musical scores, "What Happens", at the Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin, 2015.

Cilla McQueen's poems include themes of homeland and loss, indigeneity, colonisation and displacement.

She writes as a descendant of the people of the remote (and now abandoned) archipelago of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides.

Her writing also reflects her engagement with the history and present reality of the Maori people of Murihiku.

2016

Her most recent works are In a Slant Light, a poet's memoir (2016, Otago University Press), Poeta: Selected and New Poems (2018, Otago University Press), and a chapbook Qualia that is bundled with five other chapbooks by New Zealand poets in Bundle 1 (Maungatua Press 2020).

2020

In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, McQueen was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services as a poet.