Wellington, with the assistance of Gregory O'Brien. Personal life Stead and his wife Kay have three children. His daughter Charlotte Grimshaw is a well-known New Zealand writer. List of awards and honours 1955 Poetry Awards Incorporated prize (U.S.A.) 1960 Landfall Readers' Award 1972 Katherine Mansfield Short Story award 1972 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship 1984 Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to New Zealand literature 1990 Queen's Medal 1995 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2005 Creative New Zealand Michael King Fellowship 2001 Honorary DLitt from the University of Bristol 2007 Member of the Order of New Zealand 2009 Montana Prize (for Collected Poems 1951–2006) 2009 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement 2010 Sunday Times Short Story Award (UK) (for "Last Season's Man") 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement 2014 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize New Zealand Book Awards 1976 Quesada (Poetry) 1985 All Visitors Ashore (Fiction, shared with Marilyn Duckworth) 1995 The Singing Whakapapa (Fiction) Selected works Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954–62 (1964) The New Poetic (1964) Smith's Dream (1971) Crossing the Bar (1972) Quesada: Poems 1972–74 (1975) Measure for Measure (1977, editor) Walking Westward (1979) Five for the Symbol (1981) Geographies (1982) In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand literature (1982) Poems of a Decade (1983) Paris: A poem (1984) All Visitors Ashore (1984) The Death of the Body (1986) Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement (1986) Between (1988) Sister Hollywood (1989) Answering to the Language: Essays on modern writers (1989) Voices (1990) The End of the Century at the End of the World (1992) The Singing Whakapapa (1994) Villa Vittoria (1997) Straw into Gold: New and selected poems (1997) The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair (1998) Talking About O'Dwyer (1999) The Right Thing (2000) The Writer at Work: Essays (2000) The Secret History of Modernism (2001) Dog (2002) Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand writers (2002) Mansfield: a novel (2004) My Name Was Judas (2006) The Black River (2007) Book Self: Essays (2008) South West of Eden (A Memoir, 1932–1956, 2009) Ischaemia (winning poem of the 2010 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine) Risk (2012) In the Mirror, and Dancing (2017) The Necessary Angel (2018) You Have A Lot to Lose: A Memoir 1956–1986 (2020) What You Made of It: A Memoir 1987–2010 (2021) See also New Zealand literature External links C.K. Stead at