'And So He Died As He Had Lived, in Exile and Alone': Friendship, Narrative and the Politics of Remembering

Abstract

Friends were quick to mark the passing of New Zealand novelist James Courage when he died in London in 1963. Courage (1903-63) had found popular and critical acclaim in Britain and elsewhere. This was an accomplishment that few others of his generation had matched. Still fewer, perhaps only Takapuna-based writer Frank Sargeson, could claim to have attained even a modicum of his success internationally. All of Courage's novels had been published in England.