Yvonne du Fresne

Yvonne Donna du Fresne (30 September 1929 – 13 March 2011) was a New Zealand writer of Danish descent.

She was born in Takaka and grew up in a Danish-French Huguenot settlement in the Manawatu District on the North Island. She trained as a teacher in Christchurch and taught primary school. Du Fresne was first published in the 1950s. In 1980, she published a collection of short stories Farvel and other stories which received the PEN best first book award.

She wrote three radio plays: The Spring, The Ship and A Little Talk About Our Winter District, which were performed on New Zealand's National Radio. In 1999, du Fresne was writer in residence at Aarhus University in Denmark.

She died in Wellington at the age of 81.