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Anne French (born 1956) is a New Zealand editor and poet.
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Anne French (born 1956) is a New Zealand editor and poet.
French was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She graduated from Wellington Girls' College and Victoria University of Wellington with an MA. She worked as an editor for Oxford University Press, becoming New Zealand Managing Editor in 1982, and subsequently New Zealand Publisher. In 1995 she set up Te Papa Press, a publishing business within the Commercial Division of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. [1]
1993 Inaugural Writer in Residence, Massey University
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