Background
John Cranna was born in 1954. He spent his childhood in the Waikato, New Zealand.
John Cranna's portrait.
Kelburn, Wellington 6012, New Zealand
John Cranna studied at Victoria University of Wellington, at Politics and Sociology Department, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Honours.
Kelburn, Wellington 6012, New Zealand
John Cranna studied at Victoria University of Wellington, at Politics and Sociology Department, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Honours.
https://www.amazon.com/Visitors-Pacifica-Writer-John-Cranna/dp/0790000504/?tag=2022091-20
1989
https://www.amazon.com/Arena-John-Cranna/dp/0749398582/?tag=2022091-20
1992
John Cranna was born in 1954. He spent his childhood in the Waikato, New Zealand.
John Cranna studied at Victoria University of Wellington, at Politics and Sociology Department, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Honours.
New Zealand author John Cranna received acclaim and awards for his first collection of short stories, Visitors, Although the eight stories in this collection are told in a realistic style and most often take place in the present, two of them are fantasies and one is a science-fiction tale. These works feature characters - mostly from the middle class and mix of white, Maori, and Polynesian - who are loners and try by various means to make sense of their world and lives. The themes include such subjects as the relationship between past and present, the struggle between man and nature, and the complexities of human sexuality. In a World Literature Today review, Bernard Gadd noted, “The style is one of clarity and ease of reading, with care for telling details." Gadd added that Cranna's “great skill is in drawing the reader gently and persuasively into the odd worlds of his characters and in handling the process of time."
John Cranna also was an editor of AA Directions - one of the largest magazines in New Zeland at the time, where he worked from 2000 to 2005. Cranna established and was a teacher at the Auckland University of Technology, Centre for Modern Writing.
