Esther Glen [SEP] occupation
Esther Glen
Alice Esther Glen (26 December 1881 – 9 February 1940), known as Esther, was a New Zealand novelist, journalist and community worker. She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand where she also died. She was the first notable New Zealand author of children's books.
Life.
Esther Glen grew up as the third – according to other sources, as the second – of twelve children of Robert Parker Glen and Alice Helen White in Linwood. At the age of eleven she won a
"Conrad Cooper’s Last Stand ("about a young Pākehā boy and the Bastion Point occupation) won the Esther Glen Medal in the 2015 awards. Leonie Agnew traces the initial idea for this book back to a tutorial on racial identity with Samoan writer Albert Wendt during her university studies.
In 2015, Leonie Agnew won the Master of the Inkpot Competition run by UK publisher David Fickling Books with her manuscript "The Impossible Boy." The resulting book was a finalist in the Junior Fiction Section of the New Zealand Book