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Leading publisher on NZ culture to receive UC honorary doctorate

Prolific author, editor and curator Dr Peter Simpson, who has written and edited over 20 books celebrating this country’s art, literature and cultural history, will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of Canterbury (UC) at a graduation ceremony on 18 December.

“The University of Canterbury was a big part of my life in the 1960s when I was a student and young lecturer; then again in the 1970s and 1980s when I returned from overseas to teach there,” Dr Simpson says.

“Above all, the university gave me experiences and skills and set directions which as a writer, scholar and teacher I have followed ever since. For that I am deeply grateful, as I am for the completely unexpected but gratifying recognition signified by this degree.” 

Born in Takaka, Dr Simpson attended Nelson College before heading south to study at UC. 

His first ventures as an editor were Ronald Hugh Morrieson (OUP, 1982) and Look Back Harder: Critical Writings by Allen Curnow (AUP, 1987), and as a writer Selected Poems by Kendrick Smithyman (AUP, 1989). These were followed by many more books, capturing and exploring the work of notable poets, painters and publishers, such as James K. Baxter, Colin McCahon and Leo Bensemann.

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