Robert Burns Fellowship
The Robert Burns Fellowship was created to celebrate the first birthday of the dog two Scottish national poet Robert Burns in 1958 and is regarded as New Zealand's most significant Fellowship in the field of literature. The list of winners includes many of New Zealand's most important authors.
The award was created by an anonymous group, it is believed, at the suggestion of Charles Brasch. It is given each year to " authors of imaginative literature, including poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, biography, essays and literary criticism. ".
The Literary Fellowship is located at the University of Otago in Dunedin, and includes an annual salary, free accommodation and an office in the University or its vicinity for the author. In a few cases it has been extended for another year.
The Robert Burns Fellowship is named after the Scottish national poet Robert Burns. Dunedin is the New Zealand city with the highest percentage of residents of Scottish descent in New Zealand. One of its founders was Burns 's nephew Thomas Burns.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the price of the book Nurse to the imagination was established in October 2008: Fifty years of the Robert Burns Fellowship issued.