Christian Karlson Stead (October 17 1932 - ) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism.

One of Karl Stead's novels, Smith's Dream, provided the basis for the film Sleeping Dogs, starring Sam Neill; this became the first New Zealand film released in the United States.

C. K. Stead was born in Auckland. For much of his working career he lectured at the University of Auckland. He received a CBE in 1985.

Bibliography

• Whether the Will is Free: Poems 1954-62 (1964)
• The New Poetic (1964)
• Smith's Dream (1971)
• Crossing the Bar (1972)
• Quesada: Poems 1972-74 (1975)
• Walking Westward (1979)
• Five for the Symbol (1981)
• Geographies (1982)
• In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand literature (1982)
• Paris: A poem (1984)
• Poems of a Decade (1983)
• All Visitors Ashore (1984)
• The Death of the Body (1986)
• Pound, Yeats, Eliot and the Modernist Movement (1986)
• Between (1988)
• Sister Hollywood (1989)
• Answering to the Language: Essays on modern writers (1989)
• Voices (1990)
• The End of the Century at the End of the World (1992)
• The Singing Whakapapa (1994)
• Villa Vittoria (1997)
• Straw into Gold: New and selected poems (1997)
• The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair (1998)
• Talking About O'Dwyer (1999)
• The Right Thing (2000)
• The Writer at Work: Essays (2000)
• The Secret History of Modernism (2001)
• Dog (2002)
• Kin of Place: Essays on 20 New Zealand writers (2002)
• Mansfield: a novel (2004)

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