Prize For N.Z. Writer’s Novel, “The Cunninghams’
WELLINGTON, Last Night (PA).— D. W. Ballantyne. of Auckland, has been awarded this years Hubert Church Memorial Prize for his muchdiscussed novel, “The Cunninghams,” published, in the United States. This announcement was made by Mr. Pat Lawlor, president of the New Zealand centre of Pen. which was endowed with the fund by Mrs. Church, widow of the poet, for provision of an. annual prize for New Zealand prose. The judges were John Moffett, editor of the “Otago Daily Times,” and Mr. James Bertram, of Victoria University College, Wellington.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 1 December 1949, Page 4
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