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Lauris Edmond (Lauris Dorothy Scott) was born on 2 April, 1924 in Dannevirke, New Zealand, is a New Zealand writer. Discover Lauris Edmond'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 76 years old?

Popular As Lauris Dorothy Scott
Occupation Poet
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 2 April 1924
Birthday 2 April
Birthplace Dannevirke, New Zealand
Date of death 2000
Died Place Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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1920

Edmond's first work of prose was High Country Weather, a book billed as a novel though in fact an extended short‑story of a deeply biographical character, telling – however veiledly – the story of her own incompatible marriage to Trevor Edmond (1920–1990); it was published in 1984, at about the time of her real‑life marriage's dissolution.

The feminist awakening marked by that book was sustained in a collection of other women's 'stories' published under her co‑editorship two years later.

As Janet Wilson wrote in The Guardian, "She was friend to several generations of women, especially writers, who admired her as a pioneer for breaking with social convention and carving out a successful literary life at a time when this seemed risky".

1924

Lauris Dorothy Edmond (née Scott, 2 April 1924 – 28 January 2000) was a New Zealand poet and writer.

1931

Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, Edmond survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child.

Trained as a teacher, she raised a family before publishing the poetry she had privately written throughout her life.

1952

Her only son, Martin Edmond (b. 1952), is also a writer.

1975

Following her first book, In Middle Air, written in 1975, she published many volumes of poetry, a novel, an autobiography (Hot October, 1989) and several plays.

Edmond wrote poetry throughout her life but decided to publish her first collection of verse, In Middle Air, only in 1975, at the age of 51.

The work was awarded the PEN Best First Book Award for 1975.

She was 75, the mother of six children, five of them daughters, one of whom (Rachel, the fourth child) committed suicide in 1975 (the event is dealt with, poetically, in Edmond's poem-sequence Wellington Letter).

1979

She began her editorial activities in 1979, and in 1980 published a selection of poems by Chris Ward.

1981

In 1981 she edited the letters of A.R.D. Fairburn (1904–1957), a noted New Zealand poet of an earlier generation.

It was a bold move on her part as the writer in question was not known for his progressive views, but the publication established her as an all‑round woman of letters.

At the same time she received the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, which enabled her to stay in the south of France for several months.

1984

Her Selected Poems (1984) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

1985

In 1985 Edmond won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for her Selected Poems.

1986

The following year, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to poetry, in the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours.

1987

Additionally, in 1987 she received the Lilian Ida Smith Award from PEN New Zealand; in 1988 New Zealand's Massey University awarded her an honorary DLitt degree; and in 1999 she received the A.W. Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature from Booksellers New Zealand, an industry association in Wellington, New Zealand.

2000

Edmond died unexpectedly at her home in Wellington's Oriental Bay on the morning of 28 January 2000.

A friend arriving for dinner that evening discovered her body.

The Times of London wrote in her obituary (9 February 2000; p. 23) that she acquired 'a sharp new consciousness of her nationality' through her absence from New Zealand after a year as the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellow in Menton in the South of France, ending in 1982.

2003

After her death a biennial poetry prize was established in her name at the initiative of the Canterbury Poets Collective and the New Zealand Poetry Society, the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for Poetry, the first prize having been awarded (posthumously) at the Christchurch Arts Festival to the late poet Bill Sewell in 2003.

Her poetry, which continues to influence New Zealand writers, was not all about daffodils; she could speak with a committed voice, as is evidenced in the poem "Nuclear Bomb Test, Mururoa Atoll," which begins:

Although in life she stayed as far away as was possible from all forms of organised religion, in death her quotations do apparently find their way into various church settings in New Zealand, a proof – if one be needed – of their deep innate spirituality.