- Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship
- Auckland Readers & Writers Festival
- Buddle Findlay Negotiation Compeition
BUDDLE FINDLAY SARGESON FELLOWSHIP
ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP
The Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship is a national literary fellowship offered annually in partnership with The Frank Sargeson Trust. The fellowship provides the opportunity each year for an outstanding New Zealand writer(s) to write full time in residence in an apartment in central Auckland, with a monthly stipend.
The Frank Sargeson Trust established the fellowship in 1987, to commemorate Frank Sargeson and provide assistance for New Zealand writers. Frank Sargeson was influential not only through his writing, but also as a friend and mentor to other writers.
In 1997 Buddle Findlay became the commercial sponsor of the fellowship, and is proud to support the literary future of New Zealand.
FRANK SARGESON
Described as one of New Zealand's greatest literary innovators and mentor to the literary community, Frank Sargeson was a novelist and short story writer who became internationally known as the pioneer who broke from colonial literary traditions to an idiom that expressed the rhythms of New Zealand speech and experience. He qualified as a lawyer before committing himself to full time writing and a day-to-day struggle which he described as "physically, mentally and financially exhausting".
BUDDLE FINDLAY SARGESON FELLOWS
The inaugural Sargeson Fellow was the distinguished novelist, short story writer and poet Janet Frame, who had a close friendship with Frank Sargeson. The importance of this friendship to Janet Frame's personal and literary life is clear from her account of the time she spent with Frank Sargeson in the second volume of her autobiography, An Angel At My Table.
Janet Frame was succeeded as Sargeson Fellow by the noted New Zealand poet, Kevin Ireland, who was also a close friend of Sargeson. The Sargeson Fellowship was subsequently awarded to writers such as Alan Duff, Elspeth Sandys, Michael King and Marilyn Duckworth.
- 2004 Karyn Hay, Craig Marriner
- 2003 Toa Fraser, Debra Daley
- 2002 Riemke Ensing, Denis Baker
- 2001 Vivienne Plumb, Chad Taylor
- 2000 Sue Reidy, James Brown, Charlotte Grimshaw
- 1999 Tina Shaw, Kapka Kassabova
- 1998 Catherine Chidgey, Sarah Quigley
- 1997 Shonagh Koea, Diane Brown
AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART
In 2003 we commemorated the birth of Frank Sargeson, with the publication of the anthology An Affair of the Heart, edited by Graeme Lay and Stephen Stratford (Cape Catley 2003). Sargeson trustees Graeme Lay and Stephen Stratford began collecting and editing contributions from the writers early in 2002. The result is a collection of short stories, poems and excerpts from work in progress from many of New Zealand's finest writers, including Frank Sargeson himself, friends of Sargeson and all the Buddle Findlay Sargeson fellows from 1997 until 2002. The book's title is taken from one of Frank Sargeson's best-known short stories and the anthology concludes with a full bibliography of Sargeson's writing. Cape Catley published the anthology and it was officially launched by Dame Catherine Tizard and the Associate Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Judith Tizard, on 22 March 2003, the eve of what would have been Frank's 100th birthday.
FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION FORM
Applications for the 2005 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship close on Friday 5 November 2004.
Download the application form [PDF 112kb]
For more information, please contact:
Mary-Liz Griffen, Marketing Executive
telephone 64-9-363 0650 or email
mary-liz.griffen@buddlefindlay.com
AUCKLAND READERS & WRITERS FESTIVAL
Buddle Findlay is proud to support the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Buddle Findlay has been a silver sponsor of the Festival since its inception in 1999. The fifth Festival will take place in May 2005. The Festival is a biennial event and a highlight of Auckland's cultural calendar, attracting highly acclaimed writers and thousands of readers.
The Buddle Findlay Sargeson Dinner is the gala event of the Festival and has featured international writers as guest speakers, such as Antony Beevor (2003), Naomi Wolf (2001), Geoffrey Robertson QC (2000), and Felipe Fernandes-Armesto (1999).
For more information, please contact:
Mary-Liz Griffen, Marketing Executive
telephone 64-9-363 0650 or email
mary-liz.griffen@buddlefindlay.com
BUDDLE FINDLAY NEGOTIATION COMPETITION
The Buddle Findlay Negotiation Competition is an undergraduate law student competition in which a team of two law students representing a client negotiates either a transaction or the resolution of a dispute with an opposing team of two students. Each participating team receives in advance a common set of facts and confidential information known only to the participants representing a particular side. They then prepare to negotiate an agreement with another team of students who will have received the same common facts but only their own confidential information.
DATES
The regional competitions of the Buddle Findlay Negotiation Competition were held between March and June 2004 for all universities.
The national competition will be held at Victoria University of Wellington from 30 August to 3 September 2004.
The winning teams from each regional competition will compete at the nationals. Each regional winning team will be invited to compete at the Australian Law Students Association Asia-Pacific Conference held in Australia later this year (dates to be announced).
HOW TO APPLY
Application forms for the Buddle Findlay Negotiation Competition are available from your Law Students Association.
2004 BUDDLE FINDLAY NEGOTIATION TEAM WINNERS
Congratulations to the winners of the 2004 Buddle Findlay Negotiation Competition:
- University of Auckland winners — Luke Facer and Simon Fitness
- University of Canterbury winners — Danie Benkman and Beth Lee
- University of Otago winners — Jonathan Norman and Garrick Cowley
- University of Waikato winners — Paul Hemara and Todd Taylor
- Victoria University of Wellington winners — Sarah Lee and Felix Geiringer
For further information on the Buddle Findlay Negotiation Competition please contact:
Catherine Husheer, Auckland Human Resources Manager
telephone 64-9-357 1857 or email
catherine.husheer@buddlefindlay.com
