/taxonomy/term/588/0 en /culture/literature-in-new-zealand-1930-1960 <h2>Standing upright</h2> <p> New Zealanders have long been avid readers, but up until the mid-20th century most of the literature they consumed was imported from Britain. Historian and poet Keith Sinclair identified the 1950s as the time 'when the New Zealand intellect and imagination came alive'. This flowering of creative and critical talent was not sudden, but the climax of a process that had begun at least two decades before. </p> landfall literature publishing writing Making of New Zealand literature Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 1396 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /media/photo/landfall-publication <p> <i>Landfall</i> 9, March 1949. </p> <h3>Charles Brasch's <i>Landfall</i></h3> <p> Founded in 1947, the quarterly <i>Landfall</i> soon became New Zealand's foremost literary magazine. Otago poet Charles Brasch was the magazine's exacting first editor, and <i>Landfall</i>'s high literary standards reflected his ambition to stimulate a vigorous and critical cultural life in New Zealand. <!-- It was edited until 1966 by the somewhat reserved and intense Otago poet Charles Brasch.--> </p><img src="/files/images/literature-002.mini.jpg" alt="Media file" /> /media/photo/landfall-publication#comments New Zealand Book Month landfall literature publishing writing Making of New Zealand literature photos Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 1702 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz