Biography: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro

Receiving a royal honour

Allen Curnow receives the Queen's medal for poetry from Queen Elizabeth II at Government House, Wellington, in 1990.

Using this item

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

Reference: EP/1990/0604/8A-F

Photograph by Jon Hargest

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

How to cite this page

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/23265/receiving-a-royal-honour (accessed 4 June 2026).