LITERARY PRIZEGIVINGS
Sir -You overstated your case a little, I think, when you appealed for more recognition of literary prizewinners, It may be deplorable that in New Zealand "luck is rated more highly than talent," but I suspect that even in England the winner of a football pool receives more publicity than the winner of a James Tait Black Memorial Prize. I, too, should like to have seen the award to Ruth France given larger headlines, yet it is surely remarkable that it was reported at all in (to name two I happened to have seen) the| Taranaki Daily News and the Bay of Plenty Times. I wonder how many papers of their size in other countries would have been interested in such an awarc unless it was made to a local citizen.
DENNIS
McELDOWNEY
(Upper Hutt). |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1053, 30 October 1959, Page 19
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137LITERARY PRIZEGIVINGS New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1053, 30 October 1959, Page 19
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