James Courage

James Francis Courage (9 February 1903–5 October 1963) was a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, poet and bookseller. He was born in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand on 9 February 1903.[1]

He moved to England as a young man, dying in Hampstead.

Courage told his diary: "Why do I go on writing? One reason is that I believe I’ve written about people in Canterbury as it has never been done before – just as Turgenev wrote about certain people in Russian provincial society as it had not been done before."[2]

Novels
  • One House (1933)
  • The Fifth child (1948)
  • Desire without content (1950)
  • Fires in the distance (1952)
  • The young have secrets (1954)
  • The call home (1956)
  • A way of Love (1959)
  • The visit to Penmorten (1961)

References
  1. Harris, Grant. "James Francis Courage". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. Philip Matthews, 'Rediscovering Courage: A Canterbury writer has his moment', Stuff, 4 September 2021

Further reading
  • Brickell, Chris "James Courage Diaries", Otago University Press, 2021
  • Giffuni, Cathe. "James Courage: A Checklist of Published Primary and Secondary Sources, 1925-1986," JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature, No. 5, 1987.


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