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Hi, James Dignan here. Well,
in the picture on the right, anyway. Recent news about
me and this site can be found at the bottom of this page.
So... Who am I?
Born in Barnet, England, I have lived in New Zealand since I was eleven. I gained an M.Sc. in psychology at the University of Otago, and now work in Dunedin as a freelance writer, artist, and musician, and as a reviewer and quiz compiler for the Otago Daily Times newspaper. I also host a fortnightly show on student radio station Radio One. More important that any of that, though, are my family and friends, and especially the love of my life, Alice.
I have been involved in New Zealand science fiction fandom for many years. Online, I contribute to the Flags of the World website and forum, and am an administrator on Wikipedia. As to flags, I should explain the two images at the top of this page. Many vexillologists design their own personal flags. Call me greedy or indecisive, but I have two.
Many of the articles on this site come from Aotearapa, an amateur press association (a real-time, hard-copy mailing list) of which I was a member from 1987 until 2007. I use the word Grutness for many of my projects - it is the name of a headland in Scotland's Shetland Islands, and the word just caught my fancy.
I haven't got a visitors' book or counter
set up, but please e-mail me to tell
me what you think of the site!
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My fifth solo art exhibition, The Unguarded Moment, took place from May 15th-28th 2009 at the Temple Gallery, Moray Place, Dunedin A
poem which I wrote was published in May in a collection of New Zealand
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