Missing Prose Writers
| OCAL radio programmes suggest that ~ we have become a_ problem-ridden nation indulging with Puritanical zeal in a searching of our _ problematical souls. Having recently studied the problems of the welfare state, and the problems of religious belief, we now embark on an inquiry into the foundations of mental health. Country Calendar provides reséarch into family problems in the high country, while a country panel in the Women’s Sessions discusses "Are the Country People Communityminded?" A respite from problems is occasionally given, however, in the form of glimpses of, ourselves carefully observed and reported, as in Garth Sim’s Country Township, or Gwen Sutherland’s series on Growing Up in the Country. With all this activity, one wonders that our prose writers do not make more of a showing, particularly as one gathers from literary periodicals that our literature has entered a productive period. This contention is not borne out by local_radio, which has not had more than half a dozen pieces of local fiction this year, and which, as a result, has had to lean heavily on inferior imported short stories.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 10
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182Missing Prose Writers New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 10
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