C.K. Stead

Books on prize lists

• The Name on the Door is Not Mine

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2017 · Shortlist

  The Name on the Door is Not Mine

  The Name on the Door is Not Mine

  C.K. Stead · 84 when first published

  Short stories · 304 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Twelve stories from six decades, set from Paris and Zagreb to Sydney and Auckland, many following New Zealand writers and academics abroad through love affairs, literary rivalries and questions of reputation.

• My Name Was Judas

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2007 · Shortlist

  My Name Was Judas

  My Name Was Judas

  C.K. Stead · 74 when first published

  Novel · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Some forty years after the death of Jesus, an old Judas tells the story as he remembers it: a boyhood friendship with Jesus, their schooling and families, and the journeys that brought them up against Rome and the Temple.

• Mansfield

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2005 · Shortlist

  Mansfield

  Mansfield

  C.K. Stead · 72 when first published

  Novel · 246 pages · Historical, War

  AIAI-generated summary:During the First World War, a short-story writer from New Zealand moves restlessly between London and France, caught up with her partner, a French lover and a brother come to fight, while she looks for a new way to write.

• Talking About O'Dwyer

  Written in English

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  NZ Book Awards 2000 · Shortlist

  Talking About O'Dwyer

  Talking About O'Dwyer

  C.K. Stead · 67 when first published

  Novel · 219 pages · War, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:After the funeral of Donovan O'Dwyer, a fellow New Zealander long settled in Oxford, the philosopher Mike Newall tells a friend the secret behind a Māori curse laid on O'Dwyer after a soldier's death on Crete.