Becky ManawatuAward-winning novelist and West Coast newspaper reporter Becky Manawatu has been named as next year’s University of Otago Burns Fellow. The university also announced that next year’s Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance is Lucy Marinkovich, and Heather McQuillan is the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children’s Writer in Residence. This year’s Frances Hodgkins Fellow, Bridget Reweti, and Mozart Fellow, Kenneth Young, have both received fellowships for a second year. Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance recipient Lucy Marinkovich is a Wellington-based freelance dance artist, choreographer, educator, practitioner and performer. She aimed to use dance to support the Parkinson’s community and help individual people feel confident and positive about their bodies, she said.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 19, 2020 07:07 UTC