The Mayor of Auckland City, Dick Hubbard, presented Professor Stead ONZ, CBE, with the Distinguished Citizen Award at a function in Auckland last Monday night. The award is Auckland City's highest honour. The citation reported "He has made an outstanding contribution to literature in our city and country."
Now Professor Emeritus, Stead was Professor of English at the University of Auckland for over 20 years. His outstanding service to New Zealand literature has brought him many other awards and honours. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, received the CBE in 1974, was elected Honorary Visiting Fellow of St John's College, Oxford in 1997, received an Honorary Doctorate in Letters from the University of Bristol in 2001, was awarded the prestigious CNZ Michael King Fellowship in 2005 and was made an extraordinary member of the Order of New Zealand in 2007.
You will find his books in the library catalogue here.
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