Terence Laurie Sturm CBE (11 July 1941 – 25 May 2009) was a New Zealand professor of English literature and editor.
[1][2] He was of British, German, and Māori descent (Ngāti Rakaipaaka),[1] and was a great-grandson of botanist Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Sturm and Pakapaka Tiarere.
[2] He obtained his undergraduate and master's degree from the University of Auckland in the early 1960s,[3][4] and received the Fowlds Memorial Prize for the best student in the arts faculty.
[1][5][2] During this time he edited two works by Frank S. Anthony for the New Zealand Fiction series being published by Auckland University Press.
[5] In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to literature.
[1][7] Around 1993 his first marriage broke down, and he met Linda Cassells, the publisher for Oxford University Press; they married in 2002.
[1] At the time of his death in 2009 he had been editing a comprehensive collection of Curnow's poems for publication, in addition to writing a biography.
[5] Both were published in two volumes by Auckland University Press in 2017; editing the collected poems was completed by Elizabeth Caffin.