Vincent O'Sullivan (b. 1937) is Director of the Stout
Research Centre and Professor of English at Victoria University. A leading
New Zealand figure in poetry, fiction and drama, as well as anthologist and
critic, his best known works are The Butcher Papers (1982), Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories (1992), Shuriken (1983), Let
the
River Stand (1993) (winner of the Montana Book Award)
and
the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (ed.,
with Margaret Scott, 1984—). His novel Believers to the Bright
Coast was published in 1998.
