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  Frank Sargeson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frank Sargeson (21 March 1903 1 March 1982) was born Norris Frank Davey in Hamilton, New Zealand, and educated at Hamilton Boys' High School.
He is considered to be one of New Zealand's foremost short story writers and played a major role in encouraging the young Janet Frame by providing both a support and home at his Takapuna, Auckland property.
Sargeson, like Katherine Mansfield helped to put New Zealand literature on the world map.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Sargeson   (170 words)

  
 SARGESON, Frank
SARGESON, Frank (1903–82), was born Norris Frank Davey, the child of a middle-class family in Hamilton.
Frank Sargeson was undoubtedly the most important New Zealand writer of short fiction in the years following the death ofKatherine *Mansfield.
In 1995 Michael *King published a biography of Sargeson distinguished for its detailed research and for establishing that Sargeson’s withdrawal from the public life of a lawyer, and his change of name, were consequential on homosexual activity.
www.bookcouncil.org.nz /writers/sargesonf.html   (1501 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Sargeson, Frank
The New Zealander Frank Sargeson wrote stories and novels about ordinary men in ordinary circumstances, their plots driven by sexual problems and antagonisms that obliquely reflect their author's homosexuality.
Sargeson was born Norris Frank Davey in the then small country town of Hamilton, in the Waikato district of New Zealand.
Sargeson himself disputed the myth that had grown around him, claiming simply to have written about what he saw as he saw it.
www.glbtq.com /literature/sargeson_f.html   (761 words)

  
 Sargeson - Queer History New Zealand
Frank was persuaded to give evidence and allow himself to be presented as an "innocent" party.
Sargeson referred obliquely to his sexuality in his first volume of autobiography, and movingly tells the story of Carlo in his third volume, but to Alec Pickard he "'admitted' that his only source of sex was with 'servant girls and prostitutes.'"
Adapted from "Frank Sargeson - A Life" by Michael King (Viking, 1995), a lecture by and interview with Michael King, and a personal communiction from Alec Pickard.
qrd.org.nz /history/Sargeson.html   (1199 words)

  
 Frank - Britannica Concise
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Sargeson, Frank - novelist and writer of short stories whose ironic, stylistically diverse works made him the most widely known New Zealand literary figure of his day.
Frank, Anne - young Jewish girl whose diary of her family's two years in hiding during the German occupation of The Netherlands became a classic of war literature.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9035158   (861 words)

  
 Frank Sargeson House, Takapuna
Frank Sargeson Cottage, Esmonde Road, Takapuna, Auckland, is certainly modest but it stands for a far-from-modest milestone in our literary life.
Sargeson became a mentor to a whole generation of New Zealand writers - most notably, Janet Frame, who wrote her first published novel, Owls Do Cry, in a hut on the property.
Sargeson willed his home to his literary executor, Christine Cole Catley, who decided to restore it as it was in his lifetime.
www.bookcouncil.org.nz /tourism/destinations/sargesonhouse.html   (463 words)

  
 GayNZ.com
In 1929, Sargeson was arrested under Section 153 of the Crimes Act (as it then was) for an illicit encounter with a notoriously gay artist in his late thirties.
Sargeson also testified against his sexual partner in the aforementioned entrapment case, but had the decency to feel guilt for his coerced confession.
Frank Sargeson "An Imaginary Conversation: William Yate and Samuel Butler" Landfall (December 1966).
www.gaynz.com /AArticles/anmviewer.asp?a=206&print=yes   (547 words)

  
 Getting It In Writing
Meanwhile, young Frank Sargeson was busy perfecting the style with which he put Kiwi speech patterns and idiom down on paper.
Sargeson was the first writer to capture the rhythms and cadences of native New Zealanders on the page; he was to have a profound effect on a whole generation of writers, many of whom went on to develop their own quite different personal styles.
Frank Sargeson recognised in the 1979 publication of small-town schoolteacher Owen Marshall’s first collection, Supper Waltz Wilson, the emergence of his successor as the premier short story writer in New Zealand.
www.aadirections.co.nz /Issues/Autumn2005/Stories/Features/writing.html   (1998 words)

  
 Sponsorships | About Us | Buddle Findlay - New Zealand Lawyers
Frank Sargeson was influential not only through his writing, but also as a friend and mentor to other writers.
The inaugural Sargeson Fellow was the distinguished novelist, short story writer and poet Janet Frame, who had a close friendship with Frank Sargeson.
In 2003 we commemorated the birth of Frank Sargeson, with the publication of the anthology An Affair of the Heart, edited by Graeme Lay and Stephen Stratford (Cape Catley 2003).
www.buddlefindlay.com /public/about/sponsorships.asp   (796 words)

  
 Frank Sargeson --  Encyclopædia Britannica
An author of novels, short stories, plays, and memoirs, Frank Sargeson was the most widely known New Zealand literary figure of his day.
U.S. astronaut Frank Borman was born in Gary, Ind., in 1928.
U.S. Army Air Corps combat pilot Frank Luke, known as the “Arizona balloon-buster,” in 1919 posthumously received the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. military decoration, for bravery in World War I. He was the second-ranked ace of the war, after Eddie Rickenbacker.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9065772   (722 words)

  
 New Zealand books from LeafSalon: Bach to the future
Sargeson was born and raised in Hamilton, and described his birthplace as "The Grey Death, puritanism, wowserism gone most startlingly putrescent".
In Wellington, police caught Sargeson in a compromising situation with the son of a prominent Christchurch painter.
We all surely owe Frank Sargeson a measure of respect, and there is no better way to honour Sargeson than to visit his lifelong home and creative workshop.
www.leafsalon.co.nz /archives/000090.html   (321 words)

  
 Sponsorships | About Us | Buddle Findlay - New Zealand Lawyers
Described as one of New Zealand's greatest literary innovators and mentor to the literary community, Frank Sargeson was a novelist and short story writer who became internationally known as the pioneer who broke from colonial literary traditions to an idiom that expressed the rhythms of New Zealand speech and experience.
Sargeson CD The Frank Sargeson Trust has recently produced a 3-CD set encapsulating the life and selected works of one of New Zealand's greatest literary innovators and mentors to the literary community, Frank Sargeson.
The Buddle Findlay Sargeson Dinner is the gala event of the Festival and has featured international writers as guest speakers, such as Mark Kurlansky (2005), Antony Beevor (2003), Naomi Wolf (2001), Geoffrey Robertson QC (2000), and Felipe Fernandes-Armesto (1999).
www.budfin.co.nz /public/about/sponsorships.aspx   (1310 words)

  
 DNZB / BIOGRAPHY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Norris Frank Davey, who would in adult life change his name to Frank Sargeson, was born in Hamilton on 23 March 1903, the second of four children.
Throughout the war Sargeson was troubled by surgical tuberculosis, which protected him from conscription and qualified him for an invalid's benefit.
Frank Sargeson's major achievement was to introduce the rhythms and idiom of everyday New Zealand speech to literature, although his technical sophistication makes even the short stories of the 1930s and 1940s much more than the mere transcription of reality for which they were sometimes mistaken.
www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=4S5   (2015 words)

  
 NBR ARTS AWARDS 2000 BUDDLE FINDLAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Buddle Findlay Sargeson fellowship is in its fourth year and both partners are happy, particularly as it gains profile and attracts new layers of activities.
The Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship dinner at the Auckland Writers' Festival, intended to celebrate the fellowship and introduce the current fellows to an Auckland audience, has taken off with a hiss and a roar.
For the Sargeson trust, the sponsorship has raised awareness of the fellowship in the business and literary communities and helps the writers to profile themselves and their books.
www.nbr.co.nz /ARTS/buddle.html   (814 words)

  
 "Why Is Greville Texidor Part of the Canon?" by Dale Benson
Although Sargeson in That Summer and Mulgan in Man Alone had already moved away from the notion that individuals must belong to society in order to be happy and prosperous, they still caused their protagonists to realise the saving grace of mateship in a diminished world.
King adds that much of the anthology is `shaped in greater or smaller measure by the Sargeson short story model, and by the grooming which he had given individual drafts sent to him for appraisal'.
Frank Sargeson in `Anxious Huntsman', a review of de Mauny's novel for the New Zealand Listener 21 no. 534 (16 September 1949), 12, criticises `a number of borrowings that the author has not fully assimilated into his own personal manner of feeling and thinking'.
www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/vol3no1/dale.html   (4308 words)

  
 From the Wistaria Bush - Auckland University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Frank's extra-low wooden throne is my favourite place to sit and watch a spider spinning its web to catch a fly for lunch.
Puckishly Frank laughs, and then suggests that the Old Man did it to escape the house and avoid the sharp tongue of his little Londoner wife, Ruby, who'd never recovered from the hard labour of giving birth to one of their two daughters, all alone on the dirt floor of their gum-digger's tent.
Which leaves Frank, suddenly overcome and chuckling with a good idea for another story, to go in and scribble down a few notes before feeding a fresh green sheet of paper into his typewriter ready for the morning.
www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/aup/book/from-the-wistaria-bush.cfm   (2033 words)

  
 The gift of language by C K Stead | New Zealand Listener
Frank Sargeson took her in, gave her the use of the old army hut in his garden to live and work in, looked after her, encouraged her to believe in herself.
In the social bleakness of the 1950s Frank's presence was liberating to all of us who were his friends; but how much more so for Janet after years of confinement and hopelessness.
Frank encouraged her to think of herself only as a writer.
www.listener.co.nz /default,1435,1411,1.sm   (779 words)

  
 A Great Day Summary & Essays - Frank Sargeson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sargeson is one of New Zealand’s best-known writers.
The story illustrates the spare, compressed nature of Sargeson’s art (almost all his stories are very short), as well as his use of informal, colloquial language and working-class characters.
In “A Great Day,” Sargeson avoids any overt moralizing and leaves the story to speak for itself, inserting many subtle clues within the text to enable the reader to make sense of the final incident.
www.enotes.com /great-day/45842   (267 words)

  
 Bruce Harding Abstract
This paper explores the power of the personal in the life and fiction of Frank Sargeson by locating Sargeson's writerly espousal of radical empathy towards social offenders/outcasts in his traumatic trial and conviction for a 'homosexual offence' in 1929.
While a pragmatic, joint family decision, Sargeson's banishment/exile into the wilderness (the King Country) to exorcise or at least cauterize his susceptibility to lustful temptation would almost certainly have struck the young man in these inflated and biblical terms: as a casting out, a chastising punishment.
From this critical experience we may fairly trace the moment when Frank Sargeson confirmed his literary sense of mission and adopted what I call radical 'lapsarian' charity which he espoused in all of his published fiction.
sites.uws.edu.au /LLAA2000/abstracts/harding.html   (264 words)

  
 LITERATURE – FICTION - Depression, 1930–1940 - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
In her novels, as in the stories of Frank Sargeson and in the one novel which John Mulgan lived to write, readers may observe the process of change by which writers resolved these tensions and “became New Zealand” … “whole people, not exiles or minds divided”.
Sargeson's stories began to appear in 1934; Conversation With My Uncle, 1936, and A Man and His Wife, 1940, offer deceptively simple tales, often in colloquial monologue, which expose the seamier underside of social conformity and the bourgeois ethic.
Sargeson's one full novel, I Saw in My Dream, 1949, is a study of a boy searching for his real self, but inhibited by the cramping pressures of a puritan environment.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/L/LiteratureFiction/Depression193040/en   (1401 words)

  
 DNZB / BIOGRAPHY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Maurice Noel Duggan ranks with Katherine Mansfield and Frank Sargeson as one of New Zealand’s greatest short-story writers and literary stylists.
Sargeson introduced Duggan to other aspiring writers on the North Shore, such as Greville Texidor and John Reece Cole.
From the beginning Duggan rejected Sargeson’s New Zealand-colloquial early style and, with his mentor’s encouragement, displayed an elaborateness and an impatience with conventional form that were to become features of his work.
www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=5D28&QuickSearch=true   (1031 words)

  
 FRANK SARGESON- NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
'Frank Sargeson's Joy of the worm.' Landfall 24(1): 33-38; Mar 1970.
Copland, R.A. 'Frank Sargeson: Memoirs of a Peon.' In: Critical Essays on the New Zealand Novel.
New, W.H. 'Frank Sargeson as a social story-teller.' Landfall 36: 343-6; Sept 1982.
www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/nzp/nzlit2/sargesn.htm   (2405 words)

  
 Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Frank Sargeson
Pseudonym of Norris Davey, born at Hamilton of conservative, puritanical, Methodist parents.
His first great love, handsome Frank Gadd, four years older, was heterosexual (Davey's "type" was working men, several years older than himself.) They went on a holiday together to the Bay of Islands in 1924, during which Norris struggled to express his feelings, but nothing happened.
Written by Hugh Young; adapted from Frank Sargeson - A Life by Michael King, a lecture by and interview with Michael King, and a personal communication from Alec Pickard.
andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/bios1/sarg3.html   (940 words)

  
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When Frame left Seacliff Hospital for good in early 1955, she began a friendship with Frank Sargeson, a New Zealand author of acclaim and the previous winner of the Hubert Church award.
She left Frank Sargeson and New Zealand to travel abroad, ending up at Maudsley Hospital in London as a voluntary out-patient.
Sargeson showed her proof of new Landfall with his picture on it (Landfall 24.1 (1970)) and talked about what he wanted done with his things upon his death.
www.libraries.psu.edu /speccolls/FindingAids/janetframe.body.html   (4557 words)

  
 GayNZ.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She had a strong friendship with Frank Sargeson (1903-1982), born of mutual admiration for each others work.
In 1952, Sargeson wrote a highly favourable review of her first collection of short stories, The Lagoon, and she signed an affectionate tribute to his work (Landfall, March 1953).
It is therefore possible that Sargeson's reputation and review may have contributed to her salvation from a leucotomy that might have eradicated her creative potential and unique vision of the world around her.
www.gaynz.com /aarticles/anmviewer.asp?a=137&print=yes   (513 words)

  
 Frank Sargeson Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Frank Sargeson was born on March 23, 1903, in Hamilton, New Zealand.
His father was a storekeeper and later the town clerk, and Frank was the second of his four children.
After leaving school, Sargeson worked in a Hamilton law office and studied for his law degree.
www.enotes.com /great-day/46397   (152 words)

  
 A survivor against the odds--noted New Zealand writer Janet Frame dies
One person, however, who decided to stand his ground rather than become an expatriate was Frank Sargeson, whose own short stories were social realist with a dark undercurrent.
Sargeson’s influence on New Zealand letters was far wider than simply his own writing.
In some ways Frame was a transitional figure—younger than Sargeson by 20 years and yet older than the post-war generation that was increasingly calling the old certainties into question.
www.wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/fram-m02_prn.shtml   (1724 words)

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