Sir James McNeish
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Sir James McNeish is a New Zealand novelist, playwright and biographer. He was recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, a residency in France, in 1973. His book Lovelock was nominated for the 1986 Booker Prize. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious National Library of New Zealand Research Fellowship, allowing him to research the lives and friendships of five prominent New Zealanders who attended Oxford University in the 1930s. In 2010, Sir James was honoured with the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Non-Fiction. In the New Year Honours 2011, McNeish was appointed as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature.
