Jessie Munro

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Jessie Munro (born 1946) is a New Zealand writer, biographer and French teacher. She won the Book of the Year at the 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Awards for her biography of Suzanne Aubert.

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Biography

Munro was born in 1946, [1] and was raised on a farm south of Clevedon. [2] She was educated at Papakura High School, and went on to study languages—French, Latin and Italian—and history at the University of Auckland. [2] After completing her bachelor's degree, she spent a few months at the University of Perugia in Italy, before returning to New Zealand, where she married and earned a master's degree in French. [2]

Munro won a Commonwealth scholarship, and she and her husband both studied in Montreal. They then lived in Switzerland until 1972, when they returned to New Zealand. Munro went to teachers' college, before becoming a French teacher at the Correspondence School, based in Wellington. [2]

Invited by the Sisters of Compassion to write a biography of French nun Suzanne Aubert, she travelled to France and Rome to carry out research. [3] The Story of Suzanne Aubert was later followed by Letters on the Go which collects letters written by Aubert over her long life to friends, bishops and politicians. [4]

Awards and prizes

Jessie Munro's biography of Suzanne Aubert, The Story of Suzanne Aubert, won Book of the Year and the New Zealand Society of Authors E.H. McCormick Award for Best First Book of Non-Fiction at the 1997 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

Bibliography

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In translation

As editor

As contributor

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References

  1. ↑ "Munro, Jessie". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. January 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Dekker, Diana (26 July 1997). "'Debutante's' no-fuss, winning style". Evening Post. p. 10.
  3. ↑ Munro, Jessie (1996). The story of Suzanne Aubert. Auckland: Auckland University Press: Bridget Williams Books. pp. 405–406. ISBN   1869401557.
  4. ↑ "Letters on the Go: The Correspondence of Suzanne Aubert: Jessie Munro (ed)". Bridget Williams Books. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
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