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3 unusual facts about Maurice Duggan


Maurice Duggan

In 1960 Duggan was the second recipient of the newly established Robert Burns Fellowship (the first was Ian Cross), which provided a writer with a lecturer's salary for one year at Otago University.

It was published in Charles Brasch's quarterly, Landfall, in 1949, as was most of Duggan's later fiction.

Born in Auckland and raised on the city’s North Shore, Duggan was mentored by Frank Sargeson and was friendly with many of the important writers of the day, including Greville Texidor, John Reece Cole, Keith Sinclair and Kendrick Smithyman.



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