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Biography: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro

Jeny and Allen Curnow with Mona Williams

Jeny and Allen Curnow with Mona Williams

Jeny and Allen Curnow chat with Guyanian children’s writer Mona Williams (right) at a New Zealand literary event in 1987. Curnow attended many festivals and events as a way of building connections in the literary world.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1987/4118/26-F

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Terry Sturm. 'Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23264/jeny-and-allen-curnow-with-mona-williams (accessed 24 June 2026).