James Courage
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James Francis Courage (9 February 1903–5 October 1963) was a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, poet and bookseller. He was born in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand on 9 February 1903.[1]
He moved to England as a young man, dying in Hampstead.
Courage told his diary: "Why do I go on writing? One reason is that I believe I’ve written about people in Canterbury as it has never been done before – just as Turgenev wrote about certain people in Russian provincial society as it had not been done before."[2]
Novels
- One House (1933)
- The Fifth child (1948)
- Desire without content (1950)
- Fires in the distance (1952)
- The young have secrets (1954)
- The call home (1956)
- A way of Love (1959)
- The visit to Penmorten (1961)
References
- ^ Harris, Grant. "James Francis Courage". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ Philip Matthews, 'Rediscovering Courage: A Canterbury writer has his moment', Stuff, 4 September 2021 [1]
Further reading
- Brickell, Chris "James Courage Diaries", Otago University Press, 2021
- Giffuni, Cathe. "James Courage: A Checklist of Published Primary and Secondary Sources, 1925-1986," JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature, No. 5, 1987.
External links
- Works by James Francis Courage at Faded Page (Canada)
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