Kevin Ireland cause of death

Kevin Ireland cause of death – Kevin Mark Ireland OBE, a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, and librettist, died on May 19, 2023, in Auckland from cancer. He was 89 years old at the time.

Kevin Ireland was born Kevin Mark Jowsey on July 18, 1933, in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1957, he changed his surname to Ireland through a deed poll.

Ireland moved to London in 1959 and stayed for twenty-five years (with the exception of a brief stint in Bulgaria translating Bulgarian poetry into English); Ireland worked for The Times for two decades.

Ireland was a writer-in-residence at Canterbury University in 1986; in 1987, he received the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship; in 1989, he was a writing fellow at the University of Auckland; and in 1990-91, he was president of PEN.

His honors include:

• 1979 – New Zealand Book Award for Poetry for Literary Cartoons
• 1990 – New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
• 1992 – Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to literature, in the 1992 Queen’s Birthday Honours
• 2000 – Conferred with an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Massey University and
• 2004 – Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement.