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WRITERS “Compassion and empathy” were the words ringing in my head when & READERS TRUTH IS I first started putting together the 2011 programme. They seem to be even FESTIVAL STRANGER more relevant touchstones at the time of writing: close to home the people of Canterbury and, further away, the WELCOME TO THAN FICTION people of Japan face unimaginable challenges. A number of this year’s A WORD FROM THE guests have gruelling stories to tell, THE FESTIVAL when a moment in time changed their ARTISTIC DIRECTOR lives forever. Their reflections on those experiences are gifts of insight. THE 2011 So what’s within? Stories which will exercise your empathic PROGRAMME muscles: of human resilience under horrendous pressure; forgiveness and understanding in the face of violence; fascinating examples of CONTENTS the power of words, the beautiful and the bad, of misunderstandings, 4 Contact Details miscommunication and deliberate 6 Sponsors and Grant Makers misrepresentation. Reflections on 7 Annual Patrons, Festival Club Antarctica; fashion rights and fashion Members and Friends wrongs; a trip back to a time when a 10 International Biographies woman’s work was never done; revenge 18 Biographies fantasies, folklore, food galore; lunch 33 Booking Information with Madhur Jaffrey; High Tea with 34 Festival Information A.A. Gill; Rives, a mega-mouth with a 35 Timetable heart; music and words from the APO, 37 Booking Form drama from the ATC; graphic novels; 42 Special Events Polynesian poetry, Poets Laureate and 48 Friday 13 May Poetry Idol; a tribute to ; 52 Saturday 14 May and a WORDY DAY OUT for the young, 57 Sunday 15 May and the young at heart. Too much to 62 Wordy Day Out expand on here, I urge you to dip into 65 Workshops the pages beyond. 70 Index

The festival is both a haven and a hive of activity, reconnecting us with friends, feelings and hope. There will be laughter and tears, and if it leaves us with a greater understanding of our fellow human beings, for all their foibles, it will have been a success.

Jill Rawnsley

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LISWriters&ReadersAd.indd 1 2/3/11 8:52:32 AM CELEBRATING THE WRITTEN WORD New Zealand has a rich literary culture, and Auckland AUCKLAND WRITERS & READERS FESTIVAL A WORD FROM is proud to host this celebration of the written word. CHARITABLE TRUST BOARD The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival brings us Carole Beu THE MAYOR together to share the best of our own and sample the Erika Congreve best the world has to offer. This year has really brought Stephanie Johnson home to us the value of community. Events like this Nicola Legat foster a sense of pride and excitement about our city, Phillipa Muir and celebrate the creative industries and individuals Mark Russell within our community which are an important part Sarah Sandley of Auckland’s economy. This year’s Festival is packed Peter Wells with tales of human resilience, always a vital quality, but keenly felt right now in our nation. Auckland, I invite you to come along and enjoy some of the FESTIVAL TEAM wonderful words and stories on offer in your city. Artistic Director, Jill Rawnsley General Manager, Anne Rodda

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Festival Administrator, Mel Sepping Len Brown Production Manager, Phil Evans Production Assistant, Tiffany Harkess Marketing Assistant, Danielle Street Publicist, Angela Radford Welcome to the 2011 Auckland Writers & Readers A WORD FROM Intern, Angela DeFranco Festival. The Board’s vision for the Festival is that it THE CHAIR should extend and connect its audience by celebrating and showcasing the best writers and thinkers from CONTACT DETAILS around the world. We are privileged this year to have 58 Surrey Crescent, Level 2, Suite 3, an impressive line up of 26 writers from 12 countries Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021, New Zealand and over 100 New Zealanders in a 5-day event. The Phone +64 9 376 8074, Fax +64 9 376 8073 Board and staff are passionately committed to ensuring Email [email protected] that this Festival continues to celebrate and showcase Website www.writersfestival.co.nz the gift of reading and its benefits for Aucklanders of every generation. The 2011 Festival features an expanded showcase of our “Young Adult” writers: DESIGN & PRODUCTION the Wordy Day Out on Saturday 14 May. As we think Programme designed by Alt Group. about the future of the Festival we now want to extend Printed by GEON, using vegetable our role to champion literacy, without which all our based inks, all waste recycled. lives would be unimaginably poorer. We look forward to extending our schools programme still further, Printed on Advance Laser from to influencing relevant policies, and to supporting BJ Ball Papers, an environmentally grass roots organisations working in the field of adult responsible paper produced using literacy. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our legally harvested farmed Eucalyptus audience and our writers for their support, our hard- trees, and manufactured under the working staff for bringing the Festival together, and strict ISO14001 environmental our loyal sponsors and funders. Enjoy! management system.

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9 INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHIES His research focuses on the application FATIMA BHUTTO of population and evolutionary FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT genetics to problems in conservation PAKISTAN WWW.WRITERSFESTIVAL.CO.NZ biology. His book Conservation and the Genetics of Populations (2007), co- – 2011 PROGRAMME – authored with Gordon Luikart, provides IZZELDIN ABUELAISH an understanding of how genetics can be used to conserve species threatened PALESTINE with extinction. His recent essay “No separation between present and future” appeared in the edited volume Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (2010). This essay argues that the Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul in 1982. deep awareness of our evolutionary Her father Murtaza Bhutto, an elected connection with all life on Earth member of parliament, was killed by provides the basis for ethical action the police in 1996 in Karachi during for responding to the current threats the premiership of his sister, Benazir to our planet, its animals, its plants, Bhutto. Fatima graduated from Columbia Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian and its people. Supported by The Allan University, majoring in Middle Eastern doctor and infertility expert who was Wilson Centre. Languages and Cultures, with a Masters born and raised in the Jabalia refugee in South Asian Government and Politics. camp in the Gaza Strip. He received a She is the author of three books: Whispers scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, INGRID BETANCOURT of the Desert (1997), a volume of poetry Egypt, and then received a diploma published when she was 15; 8.50 a.m. from the Institute of Obstetrics and COLOMBIA/FRANCE 8 October 2005 (2006), a collection of first- FROM Gynaecology, University of London. hand accounts from survivors of the 2005 He completed a residency in the same earthquake in Pakistan; and Songs of Blood discipline at Soroka hospital in Israel, and Sword (Jonathan Cape, 2010). Fatima followed by a subspecialty in fetal covered the Israeli Invasion and war with medicine in Italy and Belgium. He then Lebanon from Lebanon in the summer undertook a masters in public health of 2006 and also reported from Iran in at Harvard University. Before his three January 2007 and Cuba in April 2008, OTHER daughters were killed in January 2009 and her work has appeared in the New during the Israeli incursion into Gaza, Statesman, Daily Beast and the Guardian. Dr Abuelaish worked as a researcher Ingrid Betancourt was born in 1961 Fatima lives in Karachi, Pakistan. at the Gerner Institute at the Sheba in Colombia. Her mother, Yolanda Supported by the Asia: New Zealand hospital in Tel Aviv. He now lives with Pulecio, served in Colombia’s Foundation. fatimabhutto.com.pk his family in Toronto, where he is an Congress, and her father, Gabriel associate professor at the Dalla Lana Betancourt, was a government PLACES School of Public Health at the University minister and the Colombian CAROLYN BURKE of Toronto. His website and foundation ambassador to UNESCO in Paris. can be found at daughtersforlife.com. Ingrid was educated in France and AUSTRALIA/UNITED STATES Supported by Bloomsbury Publishing. England and has dual Colombian and French nationality. She lived in France and returned to Colombia in 1989 to FRED ALLENDORF become involved in national politics. She was a Colombian presidential UNITED STATES candidate when she was kidnapped by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization, who held her captive from 2002 to 2008. She writes about this experience in her book, Even Carolyn Burke was born in Australia. Silence has an End (Virago, 2010). A biographer and art critic, her articles – INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHIES – Ingrid Betancourt has received and translations from the French numerous awards and honours, have appeared in such magazines as including France’s Légion d’honneur. Art in America, The New Yorker, Pink, Hemispheres, and Poetry Flash. She met Fred Allendorf is a Regents Professor the legendary photographer Lee Miller of Biology at the University of Montana while conducting research for her first and a Professorial Research Fellow at biography, Becoming Modern: The Life of Victoria University of . Mina Loy, and subsequently wrote Lee

10 11 Miller: Both Sides of the Camera(2005). Lincoln Lawyer, has been made into a Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow crisis of climate change and the MADHUR JAFFREY a Professor at the University of Western She lives in Santa Cruz, California and major Hollywood film, starring Matthew and raised in Sierra Leone, West Africa. world economic crash. Supported by Sydney. Supported by the Australia Council spends as much time as she can in Paris. McConaughey as Mickey Haller, Marisa Her writing, both fictional and non- the Australia Council for the Arts. INDIA/UNITED STATES for the Arts. No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf(Bloomsbury, Tomei as Maggie McPherson, and Ryan fictional, intertwines political and social paulgilding.com April 2011) is her latest book. Phillippe as Louis Roulet. It releases in commentary on Africa with personal New Zealand in May. His books have recollections of her childhood in Sierra CLAIRE KEEGAN been translated into 31 languages and Leone. Her first book, The Devil that A.A. GILL CASSANDRA CLARE have won awards all over the world, Danced on the Water, is a memoir of her IRELAND including the Edgar and Anthony dissident father and Sierra Leone. Her SCOTLAND UNITED STATES Awards. He lives in Tampa, Florida, with award-winning novel Ancestor Stones his family. Supported by Allen & Unwin. was selected by the Washington Post michaelconnelly.com as one of the most important books of 2006. Her new novel The Memory of Madhur Jaffrey was born in Delhi, Love (Bloomsbury, April 2010) is a story India and is an actress and cookbook JAMES FERGUSSON about friendship, war and obsessive love. writer. She graduated with Honours It won Best Book (Africa) in the 2011 from RADA, and went on to appear SCOTLAND Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Forna in more than 20 films, including is a trustee of the Royal Literary Fund Merchant Ivory’s “”. Claire Keegan was born in 1968. Her first and sits on the advisory committee of A.A. Gill was born in Edinburgh. As a TV food personality and cookbook collection of short stories, Antarctica, Cassandra Clare spent much of her the Caine Prize for African Writing. He is the TV and restaurant critic for writer who demystifies Indian cooking received the Rooney Prize for Irish childhood travelling the world with her She has also written for television and The Sunday Times and is a contributing for English-speakers, she is regarded by Literature, and announced her as an family. She lived in Iran, France, England radio, including the arts documentary editor to GQ magazine, Vanity Fair and many as the world authority on Indian exceptionally gifted and versatile writer and Switzerland before she was 10 years “Through African Eyes” (BBC), the Australian Gourmet Traveller. His books food. Her classic first book, An Invitation of contemporary fiction. Her second short old. As a child she found familiarity documentary series “Africa Unmasked” include two novels, Sap Rising and to Indian Cooking, was published in story collection, Walk the Blue Fields, was in books and went everywhere with (Channel 4) and in 2009, “The Lost Starcrossed, two travel books, A.A. Gill 1973. She has starred in many award- published to enormous critical acclaim a book under her arm. City of Bones Libraries of Timbuktu” (BBC). Her Is Away and Previous Convictions, as well winning cookery programmes on TV in 2007 and won her the 2008 Edge Hill was her first novel and started the James Fergusson is a freelance journalist writing has appeared in Granta, The as The Angry Island and Paper View. He and written more than 15 bestselling Prize for Short Stories. Richard Ford internationally bestselling series The and foreign correspondent who has Sunday Times, The Observer and Vogue. lives in London and spends much of his cookbooks. She won James Beard selected her short story Foster as winner Mortal Instruments, which continues written for many publications including She lives in London with her husband. year travelling. His new book is Here and Awards in 1982, 1994, 2000, 2002, and of the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing with the long-awaited City of Fallen Angels the Independent, The Times, the Daily aminattaforna.com There (Hardie Grant Books, May 2011). 2004, and was awarded an honorary Award and wrote in the winning citation (Walker Books, April 2011). Her new Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Economist. CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. of her “thrilling” instinct for the right prequel series, The Infernal Devices, is From 1997 he reported from Mazar-i- In 2006, she published Climbing the words and her “patient attention to life’s set in Victorian England and began with Sharif in northern Afghanistan, covering PAUL GILDING KAREN HEALEY Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood vast consequence and finality”. Foster Clockwork Angel (August 2010). Supported that city’s fall to the Taliban. In 1998 he in India, and her latest book Curry () was published in a by Walker Books. cassandraclare.com became the first western journalist in AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND Easy (Ebury Press, 2010), was named revised and expanded version in 2010. more than two years to interview the Cookery Book of the Year by The Claire lives in rural Ireland. fugitive warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Sunday Times. Supported by the Asia: MICHAEL CONNELLY His first book, Kandahar Cockney, told the New Zealand Foundation. story of Mir, his Pashtun fixer-interpreter MARGO LANAGAN UNITED STATES whom he befriended and helped gain political asylum in London. His second, GAIL JONES AUSTRALIA A Million Bullets, was published to great acclaim in 2008 and won a British Army AUSTRALIA Military Book of the Year Award. Taliban (Bantam Press, 2010) is his latest account Paul Gilding is an advocate for Karen Healey is a New Zealander living of the Taliban in Afghanistan. He lives sustainability and climate change in Melbourne. Her critically acclaimed in Edinburgh and is married with three who has dedicated his life to 2010 debut novel, Guardian of the Dead, is children. jamesfergusson.info environmental campaigning – as a paranormal thriller heavily influenced an activist, entrepreneur and writer. by Mäori mythology, and was a finalist Michael Connelly decided to become His thirty-five years of experience for the American Library Association’s a writer after discovering the books of AMINATTA FORNA include a stint as the global head of prestigious William C. Morris award. Margo Lanagan is an internationally Raymond Chandler while attending the Greenpeace, founder and CEO of two Her new novel The Shattering (Allen & acclaimed writer of novels and short University of Florida. Once he decided SCOTLAND companies and advisor to the CEOs Unwin, 2011) is set in a small town on Gail Jones is the author of two short- stories. She has worked as a kitchen on this direction he chose a major in of global corporations, and more. He the West Coast, which three teenagers story collections, a critical monograph, hand, encyclopaedia seller, freelance journalism and a minor in creative works around the world but lives with discover hides dark secrets. It will and the novels Black Mirror, Sixty book editor and technical writer. writing – a curriculum in which one of his family in southern Tasmania. be available at the festival by special Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry and the Her short story collection Black his teachers was novelist Harry Crews. The Great Disruption: How the Climate arrangement, but is due for general recently published Five Bells (Random Juice (2004) won a Victorian Premier’s A former police reporter for the Los Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy release later in 2011. Karen likes House Australia, 2011). She has won Award for Young Adult Fiction in her Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the (Bloomsbury, April 2011) is a major World of Warcraft, baking, feminism, several national literary awards and native Australia, as well as two World author of Harry Bosch thriller series as new analysis and action plan to deal and movies about cheerleading. also been shortlisted for international Fantasy Awards and a Michael L. well as several stand-alone bestsellers. with two linked challenges to human Supported by Allen & Unwin. awards, including the IMPAC and the Printz Honor, for Excellence in Young His highly acclaimed legal thriller, The ingenuity and human survival – the karenhealey.com Prix Femina Étranger. Gail is also Adult Literature, in the United States. 12 13 Her novel Tender Morsels won a World have sold in excess of 5,000,000 copies Naomi Oreskes is Professor of History MEG ROSOFF Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tell speculative fiction writer of the age”, Fantasy Award and was a Michael L. internationally, and have appeared in and Science Studies at the University Us About Our Kids, and most recently the “Emperor of Sci-Fi”, and the “King Printz Honor Book, and her novella the bestseller lists of the New York Times, of California, San Diego, and an UNITED STATES/ENGLAND Secrets Of The Grown-Up Brain: The of Chameleons” for the diversity of “Sea-Hearts” also won a World Fantasy The Sunday Times (UK), Publishers Weekly internationally renowned historian Surprising Talents Of The Middle-Aged his output. His award-winning books Award. She has a new collection of (US), The Australian, The Bookseller (UK) of science. Her research focuses on the Mind (Black Inc, 2010). Supported by include over 35 novels for readers of stories, Yellowcake (Allen & Unwin, and Bookseller & Publisher (Australia). historical development of scientific the Royal Society of New Zealand. all ages, 70-plus short stories across 2011), and a new novel, Watered Silk, They have been translated into more knowledge, methods, and practices grownupbrain.com numerous genres, the odd published based on “Sea-Hearts”, is due out in than 38 languages. His new book in the earth and environmental poem, and even a sci-fi musical. September. Margo lives in Sydney. Troubletwisters (Allen & Unwin), the sciences, and on understanding When he’s not writing, he likes Supported by the Australia Council first of a series co-written with Sean scientific consensus and dissent. Her DAVID VANN to cook and DJ, but never at the same for the Arts. Williams, is due out in May. Garth lives essay “Beyond the Ivory Tower” was a time. His new book Troubletwisters in Sydney with his wife and their two milestone in the fight against global UNITED STATES (Allen & Unwin), the first of a series sons. Supported by the Australia Council warming denial. Her most recent work, Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, co-written with Garth Nix, is due DAVID MITCHELL for the Arts. garthnix.com Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of educated at Harvard and St Martin’s out in May. Supported by Allen & Unwin. Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues College of Art, and worked in New seanwilliams.com ENGLAND/IRELAND from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming York City for ten years before moving TÉA OBREHT (Bloomsbury, 2010), co-authored with to London permanently in 1989. She historian Erik M. Conway, tells the worked in publishing, politics, PR and JAY WINTER UNITED STATES story of how a cadre of influential advertising until 2004 when she wrote scientists have clouded public her first novel, How I Live Now, which UNITED STATES understanding of scientific facts won the Guardian Children’s Fiction to advance the ideological agenda Prize (UK), the Michael L. Printz David Vann’s new novel, Caribou Island of free market fundamentalism. Award (US), the Die Zeit Children’s (Viking, 2011) about a marriage going Book of the Year (Germany), and wrong in the wilderness of Alaska, has was shortlisted for the Orange First been featured on BBC Radio 4’s “Book At David Mitchell is the acclaimed RIVES Novel Award. Her second novel, Just in Bedtime” as well as other BBC TV and author of the novels Cloud Atlas, Case, won the 2007 Carnegie Medal. radio shows. His Legend of a Suicide, an which was a Man finalist; UNITED STATES Her latest book is The Bride’s Farewell international bestseller which has won Number9Dream, which was also short- Téa Obreht was born in 1985 in the (Penguin Books) which was the 2010 eight prizes, including the Prix Medicis listed for the Booker Prize as well as former Yugoslavia, and spent her YALSA Alex Award winner. Meg lives Étranger, is coming out in 15 languages, Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before in London with her husband and will be made into a film, has been on 40 Professor of History at Yale University. Ghostwritten, awarded the Mail on eventually immigrating to the United daughter. megrosoff.co.uk “Best Books of the Year” lists worldwide, One of the world’s most distinguished Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for States in 1997. Her writing has been and was selected by The New Yorker World War One historians, he won an best book by a writer under thirty-five published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Book Club and The Times Book Club. Emmy Award in 1997 for his role as co- and short-listed for the Guardian First Harper’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, The New BARBARA STRAUCH Vann is currently a visiting professor at producer, co-writer and chief historian Book Award, and Black Swan Green, York Times, and The Guardian, and has Victoria University in Wellington. He for the TV series “The Great War and which was selected as one of the 10 Best been anthologised in The Best American UNITED STATES writes for Esquire, Outside, the Atlantic the Shaping of the 20th Century”. He Books of the Year by Time. His latest Short Stories and The Best American Rives, the “first 2.0 poet”, is a spoken Monthly, Men’s Journal, The Sunday is the author or co-author of a dozen novel is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob Non-Required Reading. Her first word performance poet and multimedia Times, the Guardian, The Observer, books, including Remembering War: de Zoet (Sceptre, 2010) which was long- novel, The Tiger’s Wife (Weidenfeld & artist. Originally a pop-up book the Sunday Telegraph and others. The Great War between History and listed for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Nicholson) was published in 2010. designer, he now constructs interactive DavidVann.com Memory in the 20th Century (2006), and won Best Book (South Asia & She has been named by The New Yorker narratives for grown-ups – clever, funny, Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Europe) in the 2011 Commonwealth as one of the twenty best American intellectually alive – using images, Moments in the 20th Century (2006) and Writers’ Prize. David lives in Ireland. fiction writers under forty and included video, text and audience input. Rives SEAN WILLIAMS The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years thousandautumns.com in the National Book Foundation’s list co-hosted Bravo channel’s “Ironic Iconic On (2009); and contributed the chapter of 5 Under 35. Téa Obreht lives in America”, a unique and whimsical tour AUSTRALIA “Shell shock and the lives of the Lost Ithaca, New York. teaobreht.com of contemporary American culture. Barbara Strauch is the Science Editor Generation” to War Wounds: Medicine GARTH NIX He is a regular at the annual TED at The New York Times, where she has and the Trauma of Conflict (Exisle Conference, and has appeared at the worked since 1994. She was previously Publishing, March 2011), edited by AUSTRALIA NAOMI ORESKES Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on the a writer and editor at Newsday for ten Elizabeth Stewart and Ashley Ekins. last four seasons of HBO’s “Def Poetry years, where she led a team that won UNITED STATES Jam”. He was the 2004 USA National the Pulitzer Prize. She has also worked Poetry Slam Champion. at newspapers in Boston, Houston, shopliftwindchimes.com where she covered medicine and science, and as a foreign correspondent and editor in Caracas, Venezuela. Sean Williams was born in the dry, flat Barbara lives in Westchester County, lands of South Australia, where he still New York, with her husband and lives with his wife and family. He has two teenage daughters. Her books been called many things in his time, Garth Nix has worked as a bookseller, include The Primal Teen: What the New including “the premier Australian book editor, marketing consultant and as a literary agent. His books 14 15 Thinking about creative writing? The Master of Creative Writing is a postgraduate programme for students with creative potential who want to work in an academic context.

We welcome writing projects in fiction, poetry, multi-genre, multi-media, drama and creative non-fiction. Our graduates work in literature, publishing, drama, film and television, libraries and education. They are publishing books, setting up websites and pursuing further academic study. They include:

• Renee Liang – poet and playwright; her play • Linda Olsson – author of Astrid and Veronika (NZ Lantern premiered in 2008. title: Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs, Penguin, 2006). • David Geraghty – author of A Snake In The Shrine • Matthew Ross Smith – teacher of creative writing ( Press, 2001). He holds a at Temple University, Philadelphia. He has published strategic writing position in the Research Office at reviews and creative work in literary and other The . magazines. • Thomas Sainsbury – playwright. His most recent • Alex Wild – author of The Constant Losers (Titus, play was Luv, performed at the Old Silo, Auckland in 2010) and PhD student in German literature. March 2008.

Programme advisers include playwright and novelist , poet and digital writer , fiction writer , and poet and essayist Lisa Samuels. We link with the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (NZEPC) and feature a monthly reading series. In 2011 our visiting writers are poet and translator Sawako Nakayasu, and playwright and fictionist Michelanne Forster, the 2011 University of Auckland// Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence.

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16 17 NEW ZEALAND BIOGRAPHIES GRAHAM BEATTIE FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT Tusiata Avia is a poet, performer and Graham Beattie is a former publisher, WWW.WRITERSFESTIVAL.CO.NZ children’s writer. Of Samoan-Palagi bookseller, and several-times judge of – 2011 PROGRAMME – heritage, she lives in Christchurch. Her the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Abbreviations: first collection of poetry, Wild Dogs Under the Montana NZ Book Awards, and ATC – Auckland Theatre Company My Skirt was published in 2004. Her the BPA Book Design Awards. His AUP – Auckland University Press solo show of the same name premiered highly popular book blog, is updated VUP – Victoria University Press in 2002 and has toured nationally throughout the day, seven days a week. and internationally. Her second book, beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com Bloodclot, was published in 2009. She PENNY ASHTON held the CNZ-Fulbright Pacific Writer in Residence, University of Hawaii, 2005. BERNARD BECKETT Penny Ashton, aka Ms Hot Pink, has She was the 2010 Ursula Bethel Writer become New Zealand’s own global in Residence, . Bernard Beckett has published ten books, poet and comedienne having sold out and is a high school teacher with a love of shows from Edinburgh to Adelaide writing plays and teaching drama, film to Edmonton to Hamilton. She has PAUL BARRETT and outdoor education. In 2005 he was represented New Zealand as a slam poet awarded a Royal Society New Zealand and as an Improviser, is Poetry Idol’s An actor, musical director, vocal coach Science, Mathematics and Technology inventor, and is also the proud winner and voice artist, Paul has appeared in Teaching Fellowship when he worked on of Best Ricky Martin Rewrite at the more than 130 theatrical productions a project examining DNA mutations. His Winnipeg Fringe 2007. She appeared at throughout New Zealand and also in 2008 novel Genesis, one of three books Glastonbury in 2010 and has a brand new Australia and Britain since his debut in started that year, won the prestigious show in 2011, “Hot Pink Teeth ‘n’ Tits”. 1980. Last year his solo show “Tic Tic” 2010 Prix Sorcières for young adult FROM was a hit at the Auckland International fiction in France, the , Comedy Festival and, among others, he and the NZ Post Young Adult Fiction AUCKLAND appeared in ATC’s acclaimed “Cabaret”. Award. His latest novel is August (2011). Most recently he performed in Roger PHILHARMONIA Hall’s “Cinderella”. ORCHESTRA CAROLE BEU OUR Carole Beu is passionate about books Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra is and reviews regularly on the radio and the city’s premier orchestra. Renowned Fergus Barrowman has been the on Triangle TV. She owns The Women’s for innovation and versatility, the Publisher of Victoria University Press, Bookshop in Ponsonby Road, is on the APO collaborates with many of New New Zealand’s leading publisher of new Board of Booksellers New Zealand and Zealand’s most inventive artists, and fiction and poetry, since 1985. In 1988 is a Trustee of the Auckland Writers & is the orchestra of choice for visiting he founded the literary journal Sport, Readers Festival. SHORES musicians. Annually, more than which he still edits and publishes. Every 100,000 people hear the orchestra live, few Wednesday nights he talks about with thousands more reached through jazz on National. broadcasts and recordings. Paula Boock has won awards both for MAGGIE BARRY her scriptwriting and her novels for AUCKLAND THEATRE young adults. Boock’s screenwriting Awarded the O.N.Z.M. for services to resumé includes “The Strip” and COMPANY Broadcasting in 1997, Maggie Barry has innovative drama “The Insider’s a career in the media spanning 30 years Guide to Happiness”. She now runs Established in 1992, Auckland Theatre in television, radio and as a magazine Lippy Pictures with Donna Malane, Company is one of New Zealand’s writer. Maggie also has extensive where together they have written leading theatre companies. ATC experience as an MC, Chair and and produced award-winning presents a mainbill season of seven to after-dinner speaker and is currently telemovies “Until Proven Innocent” – NEW ZEALAND BIOGRAPHIES – eight plays each year. ATC is the only pursuing a new career in politics as an and “Bloodlines”, and the children’s theatre company in New Zealand with MP for National. A former Chair of the drama “Time Trackers”. Their latest a dedicated Literary Unit. Auckland Board of the New Zealand Book Council, project is “Tangiwai”, a romance set Theatre Company Literary actively Maggie is an avid reader and a friend against the backdrop of the 1953 nurtures New Zealand playwrights and fan of Sarah-Kate Lynch. Tangiwai train disaster, airing later and their work, and supports the this year on TV One. development of 10 new New Zealand plays each year.

18 19 Extraordinary Friends” and “Love where he is currently working on a Law. She has published internationally shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book co-authored 99 Ways into New Zealand Birds”). In addition to writing, Kathryn PhD in English Literature. He writes and within New Zealand, and her Awards in 2001. She has been awarded Poetry with Harry Ricketts (Random 2010). Jenny is a poet and anthologist. Her creates and runs BrainStorm creativity/ regularly for Art New Zealand and New current major research projects the 2004 Artists to Antarctica fellowship, books include Summer (2003), These brainstorming classes and workshops. Zealand Books. Wulf (Penguin 2011) relate to the role of international the 2006 Island of Residencies fellowship Days (2000) and Miss New Zealand: is his first novel. law in New Zealand domestic law, in Tasmania, and the 2007 Robert Burns Selected Poems (1997). She co-edited a the accountability of international fellowship at the University of Otago. Her collection of love poetry My Heart Goes SANDY CALLISTER organisations and disarmament. book Edwin and Matilda was runner-up in Mandy Hager is an award-winning Swimming (1996) and co-edited, with fiction for the Montana NZ Book Awards writer of fiction from Wellington who Gregory O’Brien and Mark Williams, Dr. Sandy Callister is the author of in 2008. Her new novel is The Hut Builder has published several books, poems, An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in The Face Of War: New Zealand’s Great Craig Cliff’s first collection of short PETER ELLIOTT (2010). Laurence lives in . scripts and novels. Until recently she English which won the 1997 Montana War Photograph (AUP 2008). In this stories A Man Melting (Vintage 2010) won was employed by the Global Education NZ Book Award for Poetry. Jenny was book Sandy examines the medical Best First Book for the South East Asia & Peter Elliott has a performance career Centre, which actively promotes the 2002 Meridian Energy Katherine archives of the New Zealand soldiers Pacific region in the 2011 Commonwealth spanning thirty years. Well known MICHAEL FIELD “change for a just world”, and two of her Mansfield Fellow and New Zealand’s Te who underwent reconstructive plastic Writers’ Prize. The New Zealand Herald to Auckland theatre audiences, he has novels have been used as the basis of Mata 2005-2007. The Rocky surgery for extensive facial injuries. has described Craig as “an electrifying also appeared in numerous productions Michael Field has been a newspaper programmes for young people at risk. Shore won the Poetry Category of the These archives enclose a world of new voice on the New Zealand writing throughout the country. He has starred in and agency reporter for 40 years, mostly She has an MA in Creative Writing from 2009 Montana NZ Book Awards. Her new bodily trauma and wartime horror. scene,” and he was he was named the “hot over 30 television shows as an actor, and covering the South Pacific. He is banned Victoria University and is a trained book of poetry is The Hill of Wool (2011). She is currently a Stout Research writer” for 2011 by the Sunday Star Times. writes, presents and sometimes produces in four Pacific countries including teacher. Book One of the Blood of the Centre Fellow researching 19th- documentaries for television. He is the Fiji. A former Agence France-Presse Lamb trilogy, The Crossing, won the century photography and Victorian public face of Civil Defence advertising, correspondent, he now works for Fairfax 2010 NZ Post Children’s Book Award for STEVE BRAUNIAS New Zealand feminine culture for JAN CRONIN hosts a fishing competition show on Media and has been a commentator on Young Adult Fiction: the third book in a forthcoming exhibition and book. Sport 1 and is currently working on an Radio New Zealand National’s “Nine to the series is Resurrection (2011). Steve Braunias is a well-known Jan Cronin is a senior lecturer in the architecture series for TV One. Noon” for over a decade. Often in India columnist at Metro. He has published Department of English at The University or the South Pacific, Field’s home base is five books of non-fiction, including PHILIPPA CAMPBELL of Auckland. She teaches contemporary Auckland. Swimming with Sharks: Tales DAVID HAIR How to Watch a Bird (2007), and Smoking in Irish literature (including Claire BRIAN FALKNER from the South Pacific Frontline (Penguin) Antarctica (2010). He is currently writing Philippa Campbell is the Literary Keegan’s short stories) at undergraduate came out in 2010. David Hair is the author of The Bone a “kind of travel book” based on his Manager of ATC and one of New Zealand’s level. Cronin is the author of The Frame Brian Falkner is the award-winning Tiki, winner of Best First Novel (Young visits to 20 small settlements. He won most experienced dramaturges. She is Function: An Inside-Out Guide to the Novels author of several novels including, Adult Fiction section) at the 2010 NZ a $35,000 Copyright Licensing Limited also known for her work as a producer of (AUP May 2011) and The Flea Thing, The Real Thing, The LYNN FREEMAN Post Children’s Book Awards. The Bone literary award in 2010. He lives in of short, documentary and feature films co-editor of Frameworks: Contemporary Super Freak, The Tomorrow Code and Tiki and its sequel The Taniwha’s Tear Auckland with his fiancée and daughter. including “Rain”, “No.2”, “Black Sheep” Criticism on Janet Frame (2009). Brainjack. He was born in Auckland Lynn Freeman is the Presenter of Radio New are fantasy novels set in New Zealand. and “Rubbings From a Live Man”. and grew up on the North Shore. He Zealand National’s “The Arts on Sunday”. David has worked primarily in financial has been a motorcycle courier, ditch services, has a degree in History and AL BROWN digger, dishwasher, radio journalist Classical Studies and lived in New Delhi MIKE CHUNN and announcer, copywriter, graphic KRIS GLEDHILL from 2007 to 2010. Pyre of Queens (2011) is Al Brown is celebrity chef, TV presenter, Stuart Devenie’s distinguished career designer and internet developer. Brian his first book in a new adventure series. writer, fisherman and co-owner of Mike Chunn is CEO of the Play It has spanned three decades. He has taken moved to Queensland early in 2011. Kris Gledhill spent 20 years as a He’s now based in Wellington. Wellington restaurant Logan Brown. He Strange Trust which implements lead rolls in many well-loved plays, and practising lawyer, latterly specialising co-starred in the hugely successful TV music programmes for New Zealand directed the ATC. Stuart has appeared in in representing persons detained in show “Hunger for the Wild”, starred in schools (playitstrange.org.nz). These numerous television dramas, including prison or in psychiatric hospitals, before LUCY HAMMONDS TV One’s “Coasters” with “Get Fresh” include songwriting competitions; “Mercy Peak” and “Spin Doctors”, and moving to New Zealand in 2006 to in the pipeline. He is the author of the Band of Strangers concerts and ukulele he is also one of New Zealand’s top Fiona’s first novel, The Skinny Louie Book undertake a PhD in the area of mental Lucy Hammonds is a Curator of Design award-winning Go Fish, based around orchestras. From 1992 to 2003 Chunn voiceover artists. won the 1993 New Zealand Book Award. health law and human rights. A faculty Collections at the Hawke’s Bay Museum his love of fishing and seafood and is was Director of New Zealand Operations Other novels have been shortlisted member of the University of Auckland and Art Gallery with expertise in writing Stoked, focusing on meat cookery for the Australasian Performing Right for the Montana NZ Book Award and School of Law, his teaching includes fashion and textiles. She is a co-author and our love of cooking over wood fires. Association (APRA) which represents BARBARA DREAVER nominated for the International Dublin international human rights law. of The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion New Zealand songwriters in the IMPAC Award. Her poems have been Design Since 1940 (Godwit 2010). collection of public performance and Barbara Dreaver is the Pacific widely anthologised and her short fiction KATHRYN BURNETT broadcast royalties. He has published Correspondent for TV One News. She has appeared alongside Alice Munro and PAULA GREEN several books including the Split ENZ was born and raised in Kiribati and lived Hanif Kureishi’s work in Heinemann’s KIM HILL As a tutor Kathryn Burnett is both biography Stranger Than Fiction. in and worked in the Cook Islands before Best Short Stories. She has held residencies Paula Green lives on Auckland’s west inspiring and entertaining. And she’s He lives in Auckland. moving to New Zealand. She has been in France and Ireland and in 2007 she coast. She has published five poetry Kim Hill is a broadcaster and host no slouch in the writing department a journalist for 20 years working in received the Prime Minister’s Award for collections with Auckland University of Radio New Zealand National’s either – she is a screenwriter, playwright, print, radio and television. Fiction. She is this year’s Burns Fellow Press as well as the illustrated anthology “Saturday Morning with Kim Hill”. author and Qantas Media award- HAMISH CLAYTON at the University of Otago. she wrote with 50 children, Flamingo winning columnist. Her play “Mike & Bendalingo. She edited 2007 Best New Virginia” (co-written with Nick Ward) Hamish Clayton was born in Hawke’s TREASA DUNWORTH Zealand Poems, was a judge of the 2008 was produced in the 2011 Comedy Bay in 1977 and educated at Hastings NZ Post Secondary School Poetry Festival and she has accumulated Boys’ High School. He holds degrees Treasa Dunworth is a Senior Lecturer at Competition and is the poetry reviewer Dylan Horrocks is the author of the numerous TV and film credits (including in Art History and English Literature the University of Auckland where she Laurence Fearnley is the author of eight for the New Zealand Herald. Her latest and the comic “Street Legal”, “The Strip”, “Amazing from Victoria University of Wellington, teaches and researches in International novels. Her second novel, Room, was collection is Slip Stream (2010) and she books Pickle and Atlas. He has also written 20 21 for DC Comics, including Hunter: the STEPHANIE JOHNSON from the 13th to the mid-20th century. A magazine feature writer for most female musician award at 16. In 2009 she University’s International Institute of Age of Magic and . He is currently Travelling widely both for research and of her career, she was formerly the completed a songwriter’s scholarship to Modern Letters. She also teaches Life working on two new graphic novels and Stephanie Johnson is a prize-winning personal pleasure, she has also guided editor of Metro. She is a Trustee of the Memphis, where she played and wrote Writing at Massey University. runs the website hicksvillecomics.com. novelist who is also known for her plays, several art history trips to Europe. Since Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. with some of the best session musicians short stories and poetry. She has written 2001, she has talked about art on Radio on the planet. Her first single “Home” eight novels, many of which are published New Zealand National’s “Saturday was selected to feature on the “Great PETER HOSKING internationally, and is also a scriptwriter Morning with Kim Hill” programme. MICHELE LEGGOTT New Zealand Songbook” compilation, for television and film. Her most recent Angels & Aristocrats: Early European Art the only unsigned artist at that time Bill Manhire’s published books include Peter Hosking is a barrister and the novel is Swimmers’ Rope (2008). She co- in New Zealand Public Collections (Godwit) Michele Leggott is an award-winning to feature. Her second single “Focus” a Collected Poems (2001) and Lifted (2006), Executive Director of the Human Rights founded the Auckland Writers’ Festival was published in 2010. poet and literary scholar who has was one of the 20 Most Performed plus many anthologies. He was the Foundation. Since 1996, he has been a with Peter Wells in 1999 and is a Trustee published six poetry collections and New Zealand songs in 2010. inaugural Te Mata Estate New Zealand Senior Consultant to the United Nations of the Auckland Writers & Readers edited several influential anthologies. Poet Laureate in 1996-1997, received Office of the High Commissioner for Festival. Stephanie teaches writing at A Professor in the Department of English an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Human Rights, the United Nations Auckland University of Technology. at the University of Auckland, she is FINLAY MACDONALD Laureate award in 2005, and in 2007 Development Programme and the Elizabeth Knox is the author of ten also the co-founder with Brian Flaherty received the Prime Minister’s Award for Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human novels, including The Vintner’s Luck of the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Finlay Macdonald is an award-winning Poetry. He directs the creative writing Rights and Humanitarian Law. He also ALEXA JOHNSTON which won a Montana NZ Book Award, Centre (NZEPC). She was the Inaugural columnist, presenter of “Talk Talk” and programme at Victoria University, carries out consultancies for the New the Tasmanian Pacific Region Prize, and New Zealand Poet Laureate (2008-2009) contributor to “The Good Word”, both Wellington. His latest book of poetry Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Alexa Johnston spent nineteen years as has been translated into nine languages. and was made a Member of the New on TVNZ 7 and Sky 77, as well as the is The Victims of Lightning (VUP) and his NZAID and has worked extensively in a curator at Auckland Art Gallery and is Dreamhunter and Dreamquake earned Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in 2008 regular chair of “LATE at the Museum”, edited collection The Best of Best New the Asia Pacific and the former Soviet now a freelance curator and writer. Her American Library Association Best Book for services to poetry. Mirabile Dictu (AUP a series of panel discussions and live Zealand Poems is out in May (VUP). Union. From 1988 until 1996 he was illustrated biography Sir Edmund Hillary: Awards and, in 2008, Dreamquake won a 2009) is her most recent poetry book. music at the Auckland Museum. He Proceedings Commissioner at the New An Extraordinary Life was published in Michael L Printz Honor. Elizabeth lives is a former editor of the New Zealand Zealand Human Rights Commission. 2005. She has since published two books in Wellington. Listener and former commissioning DEBORAH MANNING on traditional baking, Ladies, a Plate and DOUGLAS editor at Penguin Books. A Second Helping in which she celebrates Deborah Manning is a barrister the skills of past generations of New CHRIS LAIDLAW LLOYD JENKINS specialising in human rights law, Zealand’s home bakers. Her next book LACHLAN MACKAY currently consulting with a Geneva- In a career spanning more than three What’s for Pudding? (Penguin) will be In a remarkably diverse career, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins is the director based human rights organisation which decades, Michael has become one published in September 2011. Chris Laidlaw has been a bestselling of the Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Lachlan Mackay is currently the represents victims of grave human rights of New Zealand’s leading actors and author, race relations conciliator, Gallery and one of New Zealand’s International Ambassador in New violations in the Arab region. She was directors. As well as being a founding TV commentator, Rhodes Scholar, best-known commentators and writers Zealand for the Council for a World counsel for the Algerian refugee Ahmed member of Auckland’s Watershed MIRIAMA KAMO ambassador, conservationist, All on our design history, ranging from Parliament of Religions which Zaoui, successfully representing him in Theatre in 1990, Michael is a patron of Black and Member of Parliament. He is architecture to ceramics. His landmark promotes, internationally, inter- the review of the first national security TAPAC (The Auckland Performing Arts Miriama Kamo is the presenter of currently host of the award-winning book At Home was the Montana NZ Book religious and inter-cultural dialogue, risk certificate issued in New Zealand. She Centre), a Trustee of the AUSA Outdoor TV One’s flagship current affairs Radio New Zealand National programme Awards Non-Fiction winner in 2004. The collaboration and peace. He has is a member of the steering committee of Shakespeare Trust, an Artistic Associate programme “Sunday”, for which she “Sunday Morning”, and a Wellington Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design previously served as a National Vice- the Auckland Council for Civil Liberties. of The Silo Theatre, a New Zealand Arts won Best Current Affairs Reporter at regional councillor and columnist. Since 1940 (Godwit), co-authored with President and Officer for Peace and Laureate, and an Officer of the New the Qantas Media Awards in 2005. She Claire Regnault and Lucy Hammonds, Security with the United Nations Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM). is also an anchor for TVNZ7’s News at was published in 2010 to great acclaim. Association of New Zealand. Over the DAVE MCARTNEY 8, a regular newsreader on TV One, and ANNABEL LANGBEIN past eight years he has had involvement presented current affairs programme with many non-governmental Dave McArtney is a founding member, LAURAINE JACOBS “20/20” until recently. Annabel Langbein is one of New SARAH-KATE LYNCH organisations including Amnesty with Graham Brazier, of legendary Zealand’s best-loved food writers and International New Zealand and the Kiwi rock ensemble Hello Sailor, Lauraine Jacobs, President of the New now the star of her own international Sarah-Kate Lynch comes to the festival Peace Foundation in various capacities. which emerged from the ashes of Zealand Guild of Food Writers, is an ADRIAN KINNAIRD TV series “Annabel Langbein The Free fresh from New York City where she has post-countercultural Ponsonby. More award-winning food and wine writer Range Cook”. The luscious hard-cover been researching her eighth novel and recently, Dave’s song “Gutter Black” has and the new food columnist for the Adrian Kinnaird is an Auckland-based book that accompanies the series has promoting her seventh, Dolci di Love, TINA MAKERETI enjoyed another “life” as theme song New Zealand Listener. Former food editor cartoonist and writer of the award- been a publishing phenomenon, selling which was published here in March and for hit TV series, “Outrageous Fortune”. of both Fashion Quarterly and Cuisine winning NZ Comics blog, From Earth’s End: more than 120,000 copies in New in the USA and Australia in April. Her Tina Makereti writes fiction and Dave teaches Music Industry studies at magazines, Lauraine was honoured fromearthsend.blogspot.com. He is currently Zealand in the first six months of its previous novels, Finding Tom Connor, creative non-fiction. Her first collection MAINZ and in 2008 reformed his 1980s with an MNZM for services to the food working on his debut graphic novel release. In a career spanning almost 20 Blessed Are, By Bread Alone, Eating with of short stories, Once Upon a Time in band, The Pink Flamingos, for shows industry in 2009. She is the author and is also editing a forthcoming book years, Annabel has self-published 17 the Angels, House of Peine and On Top of Aotearoa, was published in 2010 by including support for a winery tour of several cookbooks including The collection, The Best of New Zealand Comics. cookbooks, which have sold more than Everything have also given her every Huia Publishers. In 2009 she was the with The B52s and The Proclaimers. Confident Cook and Matakana, and she 1 million copies worldwide and won excuse to travel, eat, drink and be merry. winner of the non-fiction category of Currently, Dave is completing his MA edited two charity books, A Treasury several major international awards. the RSNZ Manhire Prize for Creative (music) through WINTEC. of New Zealand Baking (2009) for the NZ MARY KISLER Science Writing and the Best Short Breast Cancer Society and Comfort – ANNAH MAC Story in English at the Pikihuia Awards Food for Sharing (2010) for the Starship Mary Kisler is Senior Curator, NICOLA LEGAT for Mäori Writers. She is currently TIM MCBRIDE Foundation. In 2010 she also co-authored Mackelvie Collection, International Art Annah Mac won the national schools writing a novel inspired by her mixed The New Zealand Vegetable Cookbook with at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tämaki, Nicola Legat is the Publishing Director Play It Strange songwriting competition heritage and the Moriori culture as part Currently the Chairperson of the Ginny Grant and Kathy Paterson. whose collection responsibilities range of Random House New Zealand Ltd. at 15 and the Smokefreerockquest of a PhD in Creative Writing at Victoria Management Committee of the Human 22 23 Rights Foundation, Tim McBride ANNA MILES the expansion of Shakti as a national VINCENT O’SULLIVAN media, including stints on “Fair Go”, has been actively involved in civil organization, including setting up a number of years as TV3 political rights issues since the early 1970s Anna Miles is an Auckland art dealer accredited women’s refuges outside Vincent O’Sullivan is a poet, novelist, correspondent in the Press Gallery, Sarah Quigley is a fiction writer, poet, as an advocate, barrister, commentator, and part-time lecturer in the School Auckland. She is currently a qualified short story writer, biographer, editor and time with “The Holmes Show”. non-fiction writer and reviewer. She has and lecturer. He is the author of a of Art and Design at AUT. Having counsellor with Shakti. and essayist, and has written for Sean has won a number of Qantas won several high-profile awards for her number of books in the field of civil decided it was more productive to be a stage, TV and radio. He received the Media Awards for his work in both writing, and her work has been widely rights, most recently the New Zealand champion than a critic, Anna opened Prime Minister’s Award for Literary radio and television. published in New Zealand, the UK, the Civil Rights Handbook (2010). Tim is also her gallery in 2003. From an elegant Achievement in 2006, and has won USA, and Germany. Having been the co-author of the leading book on the West-facing room, on the fourth floor Montana Awards on several occasions. recipient of the Writers’ Residency, Privacy Act 1993 – The Privacy Act: of Peter Beaven’s 1965-1967 Canterbury Emma Neale was born in Dunedin His new collection of poems, The Movie she now lives in Berlin. Her new novel is A Guide (1994). Arcade Building at 47 High Street, and raised in Christchurch, San Diego May Be Slightly Different (VUP 2011) will The Conductor (Vintage, May 2011). she represents highly-regarded artists CA and Wellington. After gaining her be launched during the 2011 Auckland Leanne Pooley is a documentary working within painting, photography, first literature degree from Victoria Writers & Readers Festival. filmmaker specialising in political, COLIN MCCOLL ceramics and jewellery. University, she went on to complete social and artistic themes. Her work CHARLOTTE RANDALL her MA and PhD at University College, – including “Being Billy Apple”, “The Artistic Director of ATC and one London. She has written four novels, ROBYN PATERSON Promise” and “Haunting Douglas” Charlotte Randall is the author of five of New Zealand’s leading theatre and three collections of poetry, as well – has been successful both locally novels. Her first novel, Dead Sea Fruit, directors, Colin has directed for the as edited anthologies of both short A graduate of Unitec, for ATC Robyn and internationally. Pooley’s recent won the South East Asian/South Pacific Norwegian National Theatre and the Paula Morris (Ngäti Wai) is the author stories and poetry. She teaches, works most recently starred in the hit Young documentary on the Topp Twins, section of the Commonwealth Writers’ Dutch National Theatre, as well as most of three novels and a story collection, in publishing and looks after her two and Hungry production of “Sit on It” “Untouchable Girls”, was the highest Prize for Best First Book and the Reed leading New Zealand and Australian Forbidden Cities, all published by young sons. Her latest book is Fosterling and received the Short and Sweet ever grossing documentary at the local Fiction Award in 1995. Her second novel, theatre companies. A co-founder of Taki Penguin, and the editor of The Penguin (Vintage 2011). Festival People and Judge’s Choice box office. Pooley’s currently making The Curative, was runner-up in the Rua and former Artistic Director of Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short award for her role in “Introducing a dramatised documentary of Ernest Montana NZ Book Awards, made into Downstage Theatre, Colin was made Stories. She’s also the author of two YA Anna”. On television she has recently Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition. a play and serialised for national radio. an Arts Laureate in 2007. novels, both supernatural mysteries: featured in “Go Girls”, “The Almighty “Ice Captain” stars Craig Parker as What Happens Then, Mr Bones? and The Ruined, set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Johnsons” and “Shortland Street”. Frank Worsley, the Kiwi sailor who Crocus Hour (2008) were finalists in the and the forthcoming Dark Souls, Carl Nixon is a short-story writer, successfully navigated a rescue Montana NZ Book Awards. Her sixth CILLA MCQUEEN published by Scholastic. A graduate novelist and playwright. His first mission across 800 miles of ocean. novel is Hokitika Town (Penguin 2011). of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Paula book, Fish ‘n’ Chip Shop Song and other EMILY PERKINS Charlotte lives in Christchurch with In 2009, Cilla McQueen was named teaches creative writing in the USA and stories (Vintage 2006) went to number her husband and two children. New Zealand Poet Laureate. She the UK, and currently lives in Scotland. one on the New Zealand best-selling Emily Perkins is a writer of JOANNA PRESTON has been awarded the NZ Book Award fiction list and was short listed for the contemporary fiction, and the success for Poetry three times and held Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First of her first collection of stories, not her Joanna Preston is a Tasmanaut poet, STEVEN RATUVA numerous fellowships including the TIM MURPHY Book. His debut novel Rocking Horse Road real name, established her early on as editor, and freelance creative writing QEII Arts Council’s Scholarship in (Vintage 2007) saw him described as an important writer of her generation. teacher. Her award-winning poems Dr Steven Ratuva is a senior lecturer Letters, the Tim Murphy is editor of the New “a major talent” by North and South and She has written novels, as well as have been widely published in New in Pacific Studies at the University of twice, a Fulbright Visiting Writers’ Zealand Herald, the country’s largest was long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC short fiction, and her books have won Zealand and internationally, including Auckland and president of the Pacific Fellowship and a Goethe Institute daily newspaper (circ. 170,000) which Awards 2009. His new novel is Settlers’ and been shortlisted for a number of in Best Australian Poems (2004) and the Islands Political Studies Association. Scholarship to Berlin. She was was judged Best Daily paper in the Creek (Vintage 2010). It has been named significant awards and prizes. In 2006 prestigious 2007 Carcanet anthology awarded an honorary doctorate in 2010 Qantas Media Awards. Currently by reviewers from the New Zealand she held the Buddle Findlay Sargeson New Poetries IV. Her first collection, literature by the University of Otago chairman of the industry-wide Media Listener, the Christchurch Press and Fellowship, and the resulting book, The Summer King, won both the GRANT REDVERS in 2008 and in 2010 the Prime Freedom Committee of editors and Radio New Zealand National as one Novel About My Wife, won the overall inaugural Kathleen Grattan Award Minister’s Award for Literary news directors, he was appointed editor of the top books of 2010. Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry (NZ) and the 2010 Mary Gilmore Grant Redvers led the Tara Arctic Achievement in Poetry. of the Herald in 2001, incorporating the in the Montana NZ Book Awards in Poetry Prize (Australia). She has Expedition from 2006 to 2008 – an editor-in-chief role in 2005. Murphy 2009 and the 2008 Believer Book Award an MPhil in Creative Writing ice-locked polar drift in the schooner has worked on the paper as a reporter, SUE ORR in the USA. Emily teaches Creative from the University of Glamorgan TARA, the same vessel as the late Sir ARTHUR MEEK at Parliament as a political writer, then Writing at the University of Auckland (Wales), and is co-editor of Kokako ’s environmental exploration as head of news and deputy editor, in Auckland writer Sue Orr is the and presents “The Good Word” on magazine. schooner SeaMaster. The expedition, Arthur Meek’s new play “On the Upside- three separate stints on staff. current Buddle Findlay Sargeson TVNZ 7. Her novel The Forrests will echoed the Arctic voyage of Norwegian Down of the World” will be premiered Fellow and a graduate of Bill be published in 2012. She lives in explorer Fridtjof Nansen in 1893 by ATC in July 2011. A recent Michael Manhire’s creative writing programme Auckland with her family. aboard the Fram, and had a rotating King Fellow, Arthur has written SHILA NAIR at Victoria University in Wellington. complement of 20 scientists from extensively for stage, screen and radio. She has been a journalist and editor, As the composer of ceremonial music France, Estonia, Norway, Russia and the The Downstage Theatre season of his Co-author of Purple Dandelion, Shila and spent two years as Governor- SEAN PLUNKET for the 2004 Olympics, John Psathas is USA. Data collected during the voyage play “Collapsing Creation” won four Nair started at Shakti as a volunteer in General Dame Silvia Cartwright’s one of the New Zealand composers to has since been incorporated into global Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards. August 2002 and was appointed Refuge speechwriter. She has worked in Sean Plunket co-hosted “Morning make a mark overseas, and his music climate models. Grant’s background is Arthur was a founder of musical Advocate, then Manager of two Shakti England and France, where two Report” on Radio New Zealand National has been commissioned and performed in environmental science and sailing, comedy band The Lonesome Refuges and the Crisis Call Centre. Shila of her three children were born. for nearly 15 years and is currently by many great international artists and he studied Environmental and Buckwhips, and most recently, began working for Shakti’s National She published her second short-story a host on Newstalk ZB, co-presenter and orchestras. John is the Auckland Marine Science at The University of co-wrote and anchored the satirical Office in 2004 and was appointed collection, From Under the Overcoat on TV3’s “The Nation” and writes a Philharmonia Orchestra’s current Auckland. He published Tara Arctic: newscast “Feedback” for television. National Coordinator in 2005. During (Vintage 2011) in February and monthly column for Metro. He held Composer-In-Residence. A New Zealander’s Epic Voyage (Fraser these years she was closely involved in is now working on a novel. a variety of positions in daily news Books) in 2010. 24 25 CLAIRE REGNAULT CHARLOTTE RYAN no English. In 2002 she graduated from CHRIS SLANE Hawai‘i at Mänoa, he is now head of the made a Member of the New Zealand the University of Canterbury with first new creative writing school at Manukau Order of Merit for her contribution Claire Regnault is a curator whose Charlotte Ryan is the host of “Morning class honours in Law and a bachelor’s Chris Slane is an award-winning Institute of Technology. to photography. diverse practice regularly encompasses Glory” on 95bFM which goes to air every degree in Russian. Since then she has cartoonist, whose work is published in fashion and costume design. As Senior weekday from 9am to 12pm. Charlotte is worked as a lawyer for a leading New the New Zealand Listener, New Zealand Curator of History at The Museum hugely passionate about music and the Zealand law firm, and more recently for Herald and Metro. He has also published FARIDA SULTANA GEOFF WALKER of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, arts in New Zealand and was recently a City law firm in London. Hana is also a cartoon books, a graphic novel, and done she overseas the development of our named “Radio Personality of the Year” qualified performance consultant. She is work for TV. Farida Sultana is an extraordinary Geoff Walker has been one of New national Fashion and Textile collection. in Metro. Originally from Christchurch, married to James and lives in Auckland. Muslim woman and single mother who Zealand’s most experienced publishers. She is a co-author with Douglas Lloyd she now lives in Auckland with her started Shakti – the first ethnic women’s He recently stepped down as publishing Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds of The fiance and 3 year-old daughter. refuge New Zealand. Being a survivor director of Penguin New Zealand, where Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design IAIN SHARP of violence and abuse, Farida is a strong he published a number of New Zealand’s Since 1940 (Godwit 2010). Elizabeth Smither is a prize-winning advocate against all forms of violence and leading authors, including Lloyd Jones, THOMAS SAINSBURY Iain Sharp was born in Glasgow and poet and author of five short story cultural and religious oppression against , , Michael King moved to New Zealand when he was collections and five novels. The Lark women. Shakti has grown into the largest and Anne Salmond. Geoff is now working ATKA REID Thomas Sainsbury has been writing eight, and has lived mainly in Auckland. Quartet (AUP 2000) won the Montana NZ ethnic community organisation in New as a freelance publishing consultant. and directing theatre for the last six He works as a manuscripts librarian in Book Award for Poetry in 2000, and she Zealand, bringing together women and Atka (Kafedzic) Reid was born in years. His plays have been performed the Sir George Grey Special Collections was the first woman Te Mata Estate Poet families of over 42 different ethnicities. Sarajevo in 1970. At the outbreak of in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, department of Auckland Central City Laureate (2001-2003). She was awarded Farida has been awarded a QSM for her FRANCES WALSH the Bosnian war, she was a political France and Greece. His plays “The Mall”, Library and also edits the book review the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary work, and Purple Dandelion (Exisle 2010) science student. During the war, she “Loser” and “The Christmas Monologues” pages for Metro. His publications include Achievement in Poetry in 2008. Auckland is the story of her life. Frances Walsh began her writing career worked as a reporter for a local radio have been published by Play Press. He four volumes of poetry, a book about University Press has just published her freelancing for Fashion Quarterly, the station and as an interpreter for the has also written for TV and his comedy, the Spirit of Adventure sail-training writer’s journal, The Commonplace Book; New Zealand Listener and Metro foreign press. Upon her arrival in New “Super City” screened earlier this year. programme, Sail the Spirit (Reed 1994), a writer’s journey through quotations. Her APIRANA TAYLOR magazines before joining the staff of Zealand she worked as a journalist the text for Real Gold: Treasures of Auckland latest novel is Lola (Penguin 2010). She Metro where she worked as an award- in Christchurch. She later gained a City Libraries (AUP 2007) and the lives in New Plymouth. Apirana Taylor (Ngäti Porou, Te Whänau- winning journalist, and arts and books Diploma in graphic design and worked illustrated biography Heaphy (AUP 2008). ä-Apanui, and Ngäti Ruanui) is known editor until 2008. She currently works as as a graphic designer. She and Andrew, for his powerful poetry readings and a trade unionist and lives in Auckland. the New Zealand photojournalist she Fiona Samuel is a screenwriter and STEPHEN STRATFORD magical storytelling. He comes from a met in Sarajevo, live in Auckland director, playwright and actor. Her latest PETER SIMPSON long line of writers, actors and directors. with their two sons. telemovie “BLISS – The Beginning of Stephen Stratford has published more At the age of 21 he opted out of university, VINCENT WARD ” will screen soon on Peter Simpson is Director of The than a dozen books, mostly non-fiction. put a notebook in his back pack and TV One. Fiona’s last telemovie “Piece of My Holloway Press at the University of He has edited more than 100 other books, started walking around New Zealand One of New Zealand’s defining Heart”, about unwed teenage mothers in Auckland. He is a well-known writer, and currently runs the manuscript writing poetry as he went. He has held filmmakers, Vincent Ward trained 1960s New Zealand, screened on TV One editor, publisher and curator who has assessment service Write Right. He is a writers residences at both Massey originally in fine arts at Ilam and Christchurch-born Victor Rodger is in 2009 and won Sunday Theatre’s highest written and/or edited more than a dozen NZ Society of Authors representative on and Canterbury Universities and won continues to paint today. From his a playwright of Samoan and Scottish ratings of the year. Fiona is currently books including Ronald Hugh Morrieson the Board of Copyright Licensing Ltd. numerous awards for his poetry, short seminal documentary In Spring One Plants descent. In 1998 his first play, “Sons”, writing two feature films, one based on (Oxford University Press 1982), Colin His journalism work includes writing stories, plays and acting. His most recent Alone, to international indie favourites won Chapman Tripp Awards for a true story, the other entirely fictional. McCahon: The Titirangi Years 1953-59 (AUP for Quote Unquote, Metro and the New book of poetry is a canoe in midstream The Navigator and Map of the Human Heart, Best New Play and Best New Writer 2007), and (most recently) Fantastica: The Zealand Listener. A founding trustee (CUP 2009). He lives in Paekakariki. through to Hollywood blockbusters Alien and in 2001 he won the World of Leo Bensemann (AUP 2011). A of the Auckland Writers & Readers 3, What Dreams May Come (which won Playwright Award. “My Name is Gary ANT SANG prolific writer, his articles and reviews Festival, Stephen has also been a judge an Oscar for visual effects) and executive Cooper” was presented by Auckland have appeared in numerous publications. of the Spectrum Book Design Awards, RUTH TODD producing The Last Samurai, Vincent’s Theatre Company in 2007, and has Ant Sang, who lives and works in the Montana NZ Book Awards, and he strong visual sensibility is his signature. subsequently received readings in Auckland, is an award-winning convened the judges for the 2010 NZ Post Ruth Todd is joint Programme Director He lives between Auckland, Sydney and New York and London. He was the cartoonist. He was one of the original CRAIG SISTERSON Book Awards. He lives near Cambridge. of The Press Christchurch Writers’ Los Angeles, and draws together key 2009 Ursula Bethell Creative Writing creatives on the successful “bro’Town” Festival with Morrin Rout. images and stories from his life and Resident (formerly Canterbury animated TV series. Author and illustrator Lawyer turned journalist Craig career to-date in a recent book, The University Writer in Residence). Last of the celebrated “Dharma Punks” series, Sisterson has written for a diverse ROBERT SULLIVAN Past Awaits: People, Images, Film (Craig year his play “Village People” was part he has a cult following among graphic range of magazines, newspapers, JANE USSHER Potton 2010). of the ATC Next Stage Season. He is novel fans and comic art aficionados. and websites in several countries Robert Sullivan (Ngä Puhi – Ngäti currently working on three new Shaolin Burning (HarperCollins 2011) around the world. In recent years he’s Manu/Ngäti Hau; Käi Tahu; Irish) Jane Ussher is one of New Zealand’s theatre works: “Protection”, “At the is his new graphic novel. interviewed dozens of New Zealand has published seven books of poems foremost portrait photographers, best JENNIFER Wake” and “Fucking Gauguin”. and international authors, and written including Cassino City of Martyrs (Huia known for the impressive body of work crime fiction-related articles for the New 2010) and Shout Ha! to the Sky (Salt). He she developed during 29 years as chief WARD-LEALAND HANA SCHOFIELD Zealand Listener, Weekend Herald, Herald co-edits online journal Trout and has photographer at the New Zealand Listener. MORRIN ROUT on Sunday, NZLawyer and Good Reading co-edited Best New Zealand Poems 2006, Since then, she has gained recognition Since training at Auckland’s influential Hana (Kafedzic) Schofield was born in among others. He blogs about crime with Anne Kennedy, and Mauri Ola: for her images of the interiors of Theatre Corporate, Jennifer has Morrin Rout is joint Programme Sarajevo in 1979. She spent two years fiction at www.kiwicrime.blogspot.com, Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English Scott’s and Shackleton’s huts in the worked extensively in theatre, film and Director of The Press Christchurch living as a refugee in Croatia during the and in 2010 helped establish the Ngaio II (AUP 2010) with and Antarctic and now works as a freelance television for over 30 years. A founding Writers’ Festival with Ruth Todd. siege of Sarajevo. In 1995 she arrived in Marsh Award, New Zealand’s first-ever Reina Whaitiri. Until recently Director photographer for a variety of New board member of the Watershed Theatre New Zealand with her family, speaking award for indigenous crime fiction. of Creative Writing at the University of Zealand titles. In 2009, Jane was and a co-founder of The Large Group 26 27 and The Actors’ Program, Jennifer is PETER WELLS REINA WHAITIRI also currently President of New Zealand Actors Equity, Patron of Q Theatre, and Peter Wells is the author of numerous Reina Whaitiri (Käi Tahu) was born to serves as a trust board member of Silo award-winning books and an acclaimed a Päkeha mother and a Mäori father. She Theatre. In the 2007 New Years Honours film writer and director. In 2006 Peter has taught English at the University of List, she was named an Officer of the was made a Member of the New Zealand Hawai’i and The University of Auckland, “Deep & youthful in colour, the New Zealand Order of Merit for services Order of Merit for services to literature co-edited two volumes of poetry by 2009 Syrah is highly concentrated, to the theatre and the community. and film. He co-founded the Auckland Mäori and Pacific Island writers and with very firm tannins and densely Writers’ Festival with Stephanie is an editor and researcher of Mäori Johnson in 1999, and is a Trustee of the and Pacific literature. She currently packed plum, pepper, liquorice and BARNABY WEIR Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. lives in Auckland with her partner, nut flavours.” Albert Wendt. Her most recent book Barnaby Weir is a cornerstone of our is the co-edited anthology Mauri Ola: Michael Cooper capital’s music scene – most well- ALBERT WENDT Contemporary Polynesian Poems in known for being the front man of English II (AUP 2010). The Black Seeds, he is also one of the Albert Wendt is of the äiga Sa-Su‘a of founders of Fly My Pretties and has Lefaga and the äiga Sa-Pätä of Vaiala, his own side project Flash Harry. The Samoa. Poet, novelist, short-story writer, KENNETH YOUNG Black Seeds have countless sell-out New playwright and painter, he is Professor Zealand and Australasian tours behind Emeritus of English at The University of A regular conductor with New Zealand’s them, and regularly perform at many Auckland and was made CNZM in 2001 leading orchestras, Kenneth Young’s of Europe and North America’s biggest for his services to literature. His most musical development began in his festivals. Fly My Pretties is a critically recent books are verse novel The Adventures teens, when a teacher encouraged him acclaimed, live multimedia musical of Vela (Huia 2009) which won the 2010 to write, conduct and study. Ken has Available from good wine retailers, online or on collaboration. Currently Barnaby Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the received commissions to write music for is focusing on his solo work, after Asia Pacific region, and he co-edited many orchestras and arts organisations, Waiheke Island at Cable Bay’s Award winning releasing his debut solo album the anthology Mauri Ola: Contemporary and he is the Auckland Philharmonia www.cablebay.co.nz 09 372 5889 Restaurant, Wine Bar & Cellar Door. “Tarot Card Rock”. Polynesian Poems in English II (AUP 2010). Orchestra’s current Composer Mentor.

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Auckland_ConfessionsPrintAD2011.indd 1 3/03/2011 11:48:22 a.m. FRIDAY MAY 13 herself, she was conscious of the many Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille immigrant women suffering under Professor of History at Yale oppressive conditions in New Zealand, University and one of the world’s NO REGRETS, and she set up Shakti, our first ethnic most distinguished World War One – 2011 PROGRAMME – women’s refuge which helps women and historians. His contribution to the EDITH PIAF families of over 42 different ethnicities. recent book War Wounds: Medicine and She has also worked in Asia and the the Trauma of Conflict is a chapter titled Middle East encouraging women to “Shell shock and the lives of the Lost condemn violence and claim their Generation”. He talks about the wounds human rights. She discusses her life, and of war – physical and emotional – the experiences and struggles of these with Dr Sandy Callister, author of courageous women, with co-author, The Face of War: New Zealand’s Great Shila Nair. War Photography. CLIMBING THE THE GREAT 10. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 10.00-11.00AM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE MANGO TREES DISRUPTION

Biographer Carolyn Burke brings the legendary French chanteuse, Edith Piaf, to life. Raised by turns in a brothel, a circus caravan and a working-class Parisian neighbourhood, Piaf began singing on the city’s streets and was WHAT’S discovered by a Champs-Élysées cabaret owner before becoming an overnight star, seducing Paris’s elite and the people of its slums in equal measure with her 12. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 11.30AM-12.30PM 14. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 1.00-2.00PM passionate, powerful voice. She had ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE tumultuous love affairs, struggles with drugs, alcohol, and illness, and took “Venison kebabs laden with cardamom, “The evidence does, in fact, suggest that ON part in the Resistance. Join Carolyn for tiny quails with hints of cinnamon, what we’re getting now is a first taste of the a journey through Piaf’s life, music and chickpea shoots stir-fried with green disruption, economic and political, that we’ll Paris in the first half of the 20th century. chillies and ginger, and tiny new face in a warming world. And . . . there will Chair: Carole Beu. potatoes browned with flecks of cumin be much more, and much worse, to come.” and mango powder”. Hungry for more? Paul Krugman, February 6, 2011 Madhur Jaffrey’s mouthwatering book, PURPLE DANDELION Climbing the Mango Trees, is one of the Six years ago Paul Gilding forecast an FRIDAY? most loved food memoirs of all time. inevitable crash of the global ecosystem Hear her in person as she talks about – his view in 2011 is that the global her astonishing life, her family and the crisis is no longer just an environmental food with Ladies, A Plate writer Alexa issue, and how we respond now will Johnston. Supported by the Asia: New decide the future of human civilisation. Zealand Foundation. World food prices hit record highs in January 2011, driven by huge increases in the prices of wheat, corn, sugar WAR WOUNDS and oils. Extreme floods, drought and temperatures are all clear signals that 11. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 10.00-11.00AM the ecological system is at its limit, LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE strained by an economy which has grown too big. Paul believes we can Purple Dandelion is the true story of Farida come out the other side of this “Great – EVENT LISTINGS – Sultana, a Muslim woman and single Disruption” in better shape – and he’s mother whose early life in Bangladesh here to tell us how. Chair: Grant Redvers. led her to question the traditions of Supported by The Australia Council for Islamic culture. An arranged marriage the Arts at 18 took her to war-torn Iran with her husband and young daughter, before 13. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 11.30AM-12.30PM eventually settling in New Zealand. LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Having experienced domestic violence

48 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. WORDY DAY OUT. WORKSHOPS. FREE EVENTS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 49 LAURENCE FEARNLEY, on Radio New Zealand National are Cockney, told the story of Mir, his place in Asia. She talks with writer POETS LAUREATE always enlightening and full of great Pashtun fixer-interpreter whom he and festival founder Stephanie Johnson. EMMA NEALE & background. Here they discuss – with befriended in Mazar and helped gain Supported by the Australia Council pictures – the “sleeping beauties” political asylum in London. The for the Arts. CHARLOTTE RANDALL or forgotten treasures of our public contacts he made through Mir informed collections. his second book A Million Bullets, an account of Nato’s campaign in Helmand SECRETS OF in 2006. In his latest book, Taliban, SHORT AND SWEET he charts the extraordinary rise of THE BRAIN WITH the world’s most notorious religious movement, and argues that the West’s BARBARA STRAUCH bid to win Afghan “hearts and minds” 21. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 5.30-6.45PM is doomed to fail if we persist with LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE the current military strategy. Why do politicians persist in claiming that This is a rare opportunity to see New 15. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 1.00-2.00PM only a beefed-up military presence can Zealand Poets Laureate gather together LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE prevent the return of al-Qaeda, when for a special celebration of the post. all the signs are that it actually recruits Current Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen Three writers from the south have support for them? Should we, instead, (2009-2011) joins her predecessors* published stunning and diverse novels 17. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 2.30-3.30PM be talking to the Taliban? What might inaugural Poet Laureate Bill Manhire in the last year: Laurence Fearnley (The LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE a negotiated settlement entail, and what (1997-1999), Elizabeth Smither (2001- Hut Builder), Emma Neale (Fosterling), are the implications for Afghans and 20. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 5.30-6.45PM 2003), Jenny Bornholdt (2005-2007) and and Charlotte Randall (Hokitika Claire Keegan (Antarctica, Walk the for the West? Chair: Sean Plunket. ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Michele Leggott (2008-2009) to perform Town). All three novels bring to life Blue Fields, Foster), Tina Makereti (Once for ten minutes each, before talking a fascinating gallery of “outsiders”: Upon a Time in Aotearoa) and Sue Orr Royal Society of New Zealand about what it means to hold the title. respectively, Boden, a shy young butcher (Etiquette for a Dinner Party, From Under AN HOUR WITH Science Book Prize MC: Fiona Farrell. from a small 1940s Central Otago town the Overcoat) will do a reading and Barbara Strauch is the Science Editor at who becomes one of New Zealand’s discuss the joys and perils of writing GAIL JONES The New York Times, and a Pulitzer Prize- * Brian Turner (2003-2005) is overseas; and most famous poets; a young man, found short fiction with poet Paula Green. winning team leader from her days we honour the memory of the late Hone unconscious in remote forest, who is at Newsday. In her spare time, she has Tuwhare (Poet Laureate 1999-2001). 7ft tall and covered in hair resembling written two books on the human brain: an animal pelt, his identity a mystery; TALK TO THE TALIBAN The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries This free event is supported by the and young Halfie – who by contrast has About the Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our National Library of New Zealand, many names applied to him by others – Kids, and most recently Secrets Of The a group within the Department of a “coin boy” in 1865 Hokitika during the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents Internal Affairs. Gold Rush, and an acute observer of the Of The Middle-Aged Mind. She discusses adults around him. Chair: Carole Beu. her discoveries and the intricacies of the human brain with Kim Hill. 19. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 4.00-5.00PM ANGELS & LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Barbara Strauch will also be announcing the winner of 2011 Royal ARISTOCRATS Gail Jones is one of Australia’s most Society of New Zealand Science Book 18. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 4.00-5.00PM gifted and respected writers, renowned Prize, awarded for popular science ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE for her intensely poetic prose, and writing in New Zealand, during critically acclaimed for her short this event (see royalsociety.org.nz). James Fergusson’s work as a foreign stories and five novels – Black Mirror, Supported by The Royal Society of correspondent has given him unique Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry New Zealand. access to the Taliban. His first encounter and most recently, Five Bells. The was in 1996 in Pakistan; the following latter opens at Circular Quay with year he reported from Mazar-i-Sharif an exultant description of Sydney in northern Afghanistan, covering harbour which is where we meet the that city’s fall to the Taliban. In 1998 he four main characters, all “immigrants” 16. FRIDAY MAY 13 — 2.30-3.30PM became the first western journalist in of a sort. The novel is, unusually for ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE many years to interview the fugitive Jones, character-driven – her work owes warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. as much to cinema as literature: “I do Highly respected Auckland Art Gallery From 1999 to 2001 he worked in still tend to start with an image, not a Toi o Tämaki curator and renowned Sarajevo as a press spokesman for character”. A complex and powerfully “art detective” Mary Kisler brings her OHR, the organisation charged with descriptive novel, it explores the impact sumptuous book Angels & Aristocrats: implementing the Dayton, Ohio peace of unresolved grief on memory and the Early European Art in New Zealand to accord that ended Bosnia’s savage civil fluidity of time, the redemptive power life. Her regular talks with Kim Hill war in 1995. His first book, Kandahar of reading, identity, and Australia’s

50 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. WORDY DAY OUT. WORKSHOPS. FREE EVENTS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 51 SATURDAY MAY 14 will change both their lives forever. “The struggle of people against power is Sarah-Kate talks with Maggie Barry the struggle of memory against forgetting.” about infertility, infidelity, youth, Milan Kundera AN HOUR WITH old age, Italian baking, New Zealand – 2011 PROGRAMME – magazines, her ever-growing army In 1996, when Fatima Bhutto was 14, DAVID MITCHELL of fans, and her books! her father Murtaza Bhutto, an elected member of parliament, was killed by the police in Karachi during the PUBLISHING PANEL premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto. Her search to uncover the truth 24. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 10.00-11.00AM of his life, and death, and the history of UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE the Bhutto dynasty is documented in Songs of Blood and Sword. An outspoken Publishing is adapting at a rapid critic of her aunt, and the current rate to major change in the industry Pakistani government, Fatima talks worldwide: panellists will discuss the with Treasa Dunworth about the book, 22. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 10.00-11.00AM unexpected bonuses, and casualties, and human rights violations in Pakistan ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE of the last few years. What’s the best – “the local administration is unwilling course of action for an aspiring writer and unable to protect the people, the David Mitchell is one of the most popular in 2011? And what are the options for police are part of the process of violence, and phenomenally talented novelists of a New Zealand writer to get traction the courts are in the government’s our age. From the astonishing Cloud Atlas internationally? Chair: publishing hands, and the media is going through to Number9Dream, from Black Swan Green consultant Geoff Walker. a period of noticeable self-censorship, if to his most recent novel The Thousand not outright censorship.” Supported by Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, he has shown a We gratefully acknowledge Creative The Asia: New Zealand Foundation. WHAT’S breathtaking virtuosity with language, New Zealand’s Te Manu Ka Tau, rhythm, genre, characterisation and Flying Friends International Visitors insight into human behaviour. And he’s Programme for hosting a stellar group THE MOVIE MAY BE one of the nicest men you could ever hope of international publishers and agents to meet. David talks with Emily Perkins. from which panellists for this event SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT will be chosen: guests include Peter Robertson (International Literary AN HOUR WITH VINCENT O’SULLIVAN ON Quarterly), Nikki Christer (Random AN HOUR WITH House Australia), Hal Wake (Vancouver SARAH-KATE LYNCH International Writers’ Festival), Tom Mayer (W.W. Norton, USA), Barbara Rozycki (Badcock & Rozycki Literary Scouts UK), Alvina Ling (Little, Brown USA), Alexis Washam (Random US), SATURDAY? Steven Maat (Bruna, Netherlands) and Kao Ming-Mei (Hsin Yi Publications). Please check the Festival website in April for confirmed speakers. 26. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 11.30AM-12.30PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE

23. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 10.00-11.00AM AN HOUR WITH Vincent O’Sullivan is one of New LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Zealand’s leading writers in almost FATIMA BHUTTO every genre – he is an outstanding poet, Sarah-Kate Lynch again mixes food, short story writer, playwright, novelist, travel, love, loss and laughter in her new biographer, editor and essayist, and an novel, Dolci di Love. New Yorker Lily has international authority on Katherine just found out her perfect husband has Mansfield. Is there anything he cannot been having the children she couldn’t do? Stephen Stratford talks to him about – EVENT LISTINGS – have with someone else – in a small his recent fiction and his latest poetry hilltop town in Tuscany. Violetta is the collection, The Movie May Be Slightly “spiritual leader” of The Secret League Different, which will be launched of Widowed Darners, an all-but invisible at this festival. army mending broken hearts in that same Tuscan town. Destiny will bring 25. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 11.30AM-12.30PM Lily and Violetta together, but biscotti ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE

52 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. WORDY DAY OUT. WORKSHOPS. FREE EVENTS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 53 INSIDE STORIES it also makes science, and scientists, EMERGING WRITERS Claire Keegan is an exceptionally gifted New Zealand Civil Rights Handbook (Craig to maintain in the face of extreme vulnerable to misrepresentation. and versatile writer, a master of the short Potton Publishing); and the Human provocation. Chair: Chris Laidlaw. Naomi Oreskes co-wrote Merchants of story, and an absorbing speaker on this Rights Foundation’s Law into Action: Doubt with Erik Conway: an important much-loved form and writing in general. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in and absorbing history of a group of Foster, an extended version of the story Aotearoa New Zealand (Thomson Reuters). ANTARCTICA high-level US scientists and advisers which won the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish The Foundation is a non-governmental with deep connections in politics and Writing Award, is an achingly beautiful organisation established in 2001 to industry. The same individuals surface work. Two previous award-winning promote and defend human rights repeatedly: claiming that the science of collections, Antarctica and Walk the through research-based education and global warming is “not settled”, denying Blue Fields were published to enormous advocacy in New Zealand. Tim McBride the truth of studies linking smoking critical acclaim, and confirmed her gets this session underway with a light- 27. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 11.30AM-12.30PM to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, 30. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 1.00-2.00PM status as one of Ireland’s greatest talents. hearted account entitled “Making Civil UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE and CFCs to the ozone hole. We are UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Claire talks with Jan Cronin. Rights Law Accessible: A 40-Year Journey”, honoured to have Naomi Oreskes give followed by Deborah Manning and Frances Walsh’s Inside Stories: A History the Michael King Memorial Lecture, It’s always a tonic to hear fresh voices. Kris Gledhill in conversation with Peter of the New Zealand Housewife 1890-1975 is with an introduction by the Science Craig Cliff won Best First Book for the THE DRESS CIRCLE Hosking, the Foundation’s Executive 35. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 4.00-5.00PM a compendium of domesticity sourced Editor of the New York Times South East Asia & Pacific region of the Director, about our human rights record LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE from the many women’s magazines and Barbara Strauch. 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize with and current areas of major concern. pages of the period. It reveals as much A Man Melting, stories which move from At the turn of the 20th century, about how women pitched themselves the serious and realistic to the humorous Antarctica was the focus of one of the last and their job, as their relationship CARL NIXON & and outlandish, each copying an element AN HOUR WITH great races of exploration and discovery. with magazines which delivered up a from the last in a kind of evolutionary Men set off from their huts in search of promiscuous mix of genres and views. SARAH QUIGLEY chain. Hamish Clayton’s first novel Wulf, INGRID BETANCOURT adventure, science and glory, and some The author talks with Anna Miles of set in early 19th century New Zealand never returned. Wars intervened and the myriad and sometimes surprising off the coast of Kapiti, sees English the huts were left as time capsules of ways in which resourceful New trader John Stewart try to trade with Te Edwardian life. In 2009, Jane Ussher and Zealand women dealt with the tyranny Rauparaha and in the process start a train 32. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 2.30-3.30PM Steve Braunias travelled to Antarctica on of keeping house, keeping him, and of events that change the course of our LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE assignment. Jane recorded “the unusual, keeping sane – at least the strategies history. Tina Makereti, who won the non- the hidden and minutiae of these sites” they admitted to in print. Illustrated fiction category of the 2009 Royal Society Contrary to popular opinion, New in eerily beautiful photographs for Still with images from magazines. Manhire Prize for Creative Science Zealand fashion didn’t begin in the late Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Writing, has published a contemporary 1990s when four designers created a stir Shackleton. Braunias took solace in a copy and mythical collection of short stories, with their stylish dark garments on the of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague NAOMI ORESKES AND 29. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 1.00-2.00PM Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa. Enjoy. London catwalks. Its history is, in fact, 34. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 4.00-5.00PM Year which had been left in the hut at LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Chair: Iain Sharp. a long and rich one, and no one tells it ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Cape Bird. Later, he devoted a section of THE MERCHANTS better than Lucy Hammonds, Douglas Smoking in Antarctica to his “Cold Days in Coincidentally, Carl Nixon and Sarah Lloyd Jenkins and Claire Regnault, who On 23 February 2002, Ingrid Betancourt, Hell”, and won the 2010 Cathay Pacific OF DOUBT Quigley were friends at high school AN HOUR WITH spent over three years tracking down our was a Colombian presidential candidate Travel Writer of the Year. They talk with and university in Christchurch – overlooked and in some cases entirely on her way to a meeting in San Vincente. Finlay Macdonald about their experience THE MICHAEL KING MEMORIAL LECTURE both are now acclaimed writers and CLAIRE KEEGAN forgotten fashion pioneers and heroes, Stopped by men dressed in military – illustrated with Jane’s heartbreaking they catch up to talk about their uncovering a treasure-trove of fabulous garb, she instinctively looked down at photographs. latest work. Quigley’s The Conductor frocks, coats, ballgowns and bijou their shoes. “They were black boots . . . is set in Leningrad, besieged by Nazi pieces along the way. What they found I’d been taught how to identify boots. troops in 1941; the composer Dmitri contradicts the notion that we’ve always If they were leather, it was the army; SCRIPT TO SCREEN Shostakovich spends his days digging been a nation of bad dressers – see the if they were rubber, it was the FARC. ditches to defend his city, and his nights evidence in an illustrated session inspired These were rubber.” So began her six composing a new symphonic work. by The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion and a half year ordeal, held hostage in Nixon’s Settlers’ Creek, which reviewers Design Since 1940. Chair: Peter Wells. the jungle by a brutal terrorist guerrilla nationwide named as one of the top organisation. Even Silence Has an End books of 2010, is by contrast very much describes her numerous escape attempts, 28. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 1.00-2.00PM a “New Zealand” novel, exploring the 31. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 2.30-3.30PM LAW INTO ACTION the harrowing physical and emotional ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE claims of both indigenous people and ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE conditions and the psychological impact more recent settlers to have a spiritual 33. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 2.30-3.30PM of intense deprivation, the constant need “Doubt is our product,” ran the link to the land. Chair: Graham Beattie. “Foster puts on display an imposing array UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE to move camps which entailed days of infamous memo written by one of formal beauties at the service of a deep trekking through dense jungle in chains, 36. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 4.00-5.00PM tobacco industry executive in 1969, and profound talent . . . She brings a thrilling How to better protect and enhance our and the complex human relationships UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE “since it is the best means of competing synaesthetic instinct for the unexpected right fundamental human rights continues to which developed – both with fellow with the ‘body of fact’ that exists word, and exhibits patient attention to life’s be a concern of many New Zealanders. prisoners and captors. Ultimately we How do filmmakers bring our country’s in the minds of the general public.” vast consequence and finality . . . a high-wire During the past year two major legal are inspired by her determination to rich history to life for the screen, There’s no denying “doubt” is crucial act of uncommon narrative virtuosity.” books in this area have been published cling to her humanity, and the dignity creating both compelling drama and to science and drives it forward, but Richard Ford – the latest edition of Tim McBride’s and compassion she somehow manages truthful re-presentations of history?

54 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. WORDY DAY OUT. WORKSHOPS. FREE EVENTS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 55 Award-winning writer/producer Paula THE BEST OF BEST reading of the play featuring Jennifer Boock (The Insider’s Guide to Happiness, Ward-Lealand, Michael Hurst, Peter Until Proven Innocent) and actor/writer/ NEW ZEALAND POEMS Elliott, Paul Barrett, Robyn Paterson, director Fiona Samuel (Piece of My Heart, Arthur Meek and Thomas Sainsbury. Outrageous Fortune) have both looked to Directed by Colin McColl. our past for their latest drama projects – – 2011 PROGRAMME – Boock, the Tangiwai disaster (Tangiwai), Inspired by the true life story of a and Samuel, Katherine Mansfield’s early flamboyant con artist who convinced life (Bliss). Documentary filmmaker wealthy residents in Manhattan that he Leanne Pooley (Untouchable Girls, was the son of actor Sidney Poitier, “Six Haunting Douglas) talks to them about Degrees of Separation” is a captivating the process of turning true stories into study of society’s pretensions exposed drama for the screen. Presented by Script by one man’s self-confidence and to Screen. imagination. Guare’s prize-winning play scratches beneath the surface of a world obsessed with money GOODBYE SARAJEVO and fame. How can anyone be sure people are who they say they are? The reading will be followed by a discussion chaired by Philippa Campbell, with Victor Rodger, Paula 38. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 5.30-6.30PM Morris, Colin McColl and the cast. LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE

Tusiata Avia, Paula Green, Cilla THIS ONE’S FOR McQueen, Bill Manhire, Emma Neale, WHAT’S Vincent O’Sullivan, Elizabeth Smither CHRISTCHURCH 37. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 5.30-6.30PM and Robert Sullivan perform live in ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE celebration of the publication of The Best of Best New Zealand Poems. MC: Fergus In May 1992, Hana Schofield and Atka Barrowman. Reid were caught in the middle of what became the bloodiest European conflict ON since World War Two. Hana is twelve INSPIRING WORKS years old and boards one of the last UN evacuation buses to flee the besieged PRESENTED BY THE city of Sarajevo. Her 21-year-old sister AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY Atka stays behind to look after their 41. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 7.00-8.00PM five younger siblings. They say goodbye LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE thinking they’ll be apart for only a SUNDAY? matter of weeks, but as the Bosnian “If I set things down on a page and put words war escalates, months go by without to the feelings, I feel more in control,” wrote contact. As a refugee in Croatia, Hana Fiona Farrell in an email to her friends a is a long way from home and family week after the devastating earthquake and desperate for news; Atka’s daily on February 22. “Everything will have to life is punctuated by sniper and mortar be reconfigured, reimagined, our internal attacks and desperate food shortages as maps of the place will have to be redesigned.” she and the family struggle to survive. 39. SATURDAY MAY 14 — 6.00-8.00PM Five Canterbury writers – Carl Nixon, Nineteen years later, both sisters live in UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Fiona Farrell, Joanna Preston, Tusiata Auckland. Goodbye Sarajevo tells their Avia and Sarah Quigley – reflect on compelling story of courage, survival, What works inspire a writer? Who do their experiences and pay tribute to and the unexpected turn of events that they look to for great craft, technique, their “lost” city. Chairs: Ruth Todd and brought them and their family to New ideas? John Guare’s contemporary Morrin Rout, Programme Directors, Zealand. They share their story with classic “Six Degrees of Separation” is one The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival. – EVENT LISTINGS – Lynn Freeman. work that has inspired Victor Rodger, Please note: The Auckland Writers & leading New Zealand playwright and Readers Festival will support The Press television script writer. Auckland Christchurch Writers’ Festival through Theatre Company presents a public this event.

56 57 SUNDAY MAY 15 AN HOUR WITH here. Illustrated with copious images, Peter provide the basis for ethical action in MAURI OLA Alaskan voice, one of beauty, sorrow and explores Bensemann’s paradoxical place responding to the current threats to our subtlety. The reviews for Caribou Island AMINATTA FORNA in our cultural history as both a pivotal planet, its animals, its plants, and its have been fulsome in their praise, and I SHALL NOT HATE insider within key institutions such as The people? Or will “merchants of doubt” he is being hailed as “a great American Caxton Press and The Group while being in obscure our fate until it is too late? writer”. David talks with Bill Manhire. his own work a challenging and fantastical Chair: Sean Plunket.Supported by The outsider, radically out of step with his Allan Wilson Centre. contemporaries. Introduction: Peter Wells. FANTASY: FREEDOM OPEN MIKE GRAPHIC NOVELS, ALL ROUND COMICS & CARTOONS 48. SUNDAY MAY 15 — 11.15AM-12.30PM POETS, YOU’RE UP UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 43. SUNDAY MAY 15 — 9.45-10.45AM 42. SUNDAY MAY 15 — 9.45-10.45AM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 45. SUNDAY MAY 15 — 10.00AM-1.00PM Mauri Ola is the follow-up volume to ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE AIR NZ FOYER, LEVEL 5, AOTEA CENTRE the highly acclaimed Whetu Moana, the Aminatta Forna was born in Glasgow first anthology of Polynesian poems in Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish was born and raised in Sierra Leone, West Africa. A festival institution, Open Mike English, edited by Polynesian editors and raised in Jabalia refugee camp She was a popular guest at the 2003 shoots unpublished poets onto the stage – Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and in the Gaza Strip. He worked and festival when she visited Auckland alongside stars of the poetry firmament. Robert Sullivan. They talk about and studied hard, married, had seven on publication of her memoir of her On the hour, established poets perform read from the new anthology with guest 50. SUNDAY MAY 15 — 1.00-2.00PM children, and was a successful and dissident father, The Devil that Danced on for ten minutes. The rest of the time, poets, including Apirana Taylor and LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE respected doctor and infertility expert the Water. We’re delighted to welcome her five-minute slots are available to anyone 47. SUNDAY MAY 15 — 11.15AM-12.30PM Tusiata Avia. who lived in Gaza and worked at the back with her second novel, The Memory who wants to read – just put your name LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Do writers like writing fantasy because Gerner Institute at the Sheba hospital of Love – a story about friendship, war down on the board on the day. Please they can tackle serious subject matter in Tel Aviv. In January 2009, three and obsessive love – which has just won visit the festival website in April for Ant Sang is the creator of the celebrated AN HOUR WITH without having to make claims of months after his wife died suddenly Best Book (Africa region) in the 2011 a list of the poets appearing and their Dharma Punks comic series, was one relevance to the “real” world? Non-realist of undiagnosed leukemia, three of his Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. appearance time. of the creators of “bro’Town”, and DAVID VANN fiction is liberating for the writer, and daughters and a niece were killed when Chair: Vancouver International Writers’ has a new graphic novel out, Shaolin also frees the reader from a pre-existing a missile hit their bedroom during the Festival director Hal Wake. Supported Burning. Chris Slane is the award- awareness of what they’re supposed to Israeli incursion. Daughters Mayar, by the Commonwealth Foundation. SAVING THE WORLD winning cartoonist whose work think, or how they’re meant to respond. Aya, and his niece, Noor, were dead. regularly appears in our newspapers Perhaps this is why fantasy is so popular His other daughter Shatha was and magazines, and co-author of the with the young adult market – it doesn’t bleeding profusely, one finger hanging LEO BENSEMANN recently published graphic novel dictate what to think or how to feel. by a thread. Then a second blast killed Nice Day for a War. Dylan Horrocks is Fantasy writers Garth Nix, Cassandra a third daughter, Bessan. Despite INSIDE/OUTSIDE: the author of seminal graphic novel Clare, Margo Lanagan and Elizabeth grief and shock, Abuelaish did LEO BENSEMANN’S PLACE IN Hicksville, comic books Pickle and Knox tell Paula Morris what they love what he could to help the injured. NEW ZEALAND ART AND LITERATURE Atlas, has written for DC Comics and about the genre. He called a friend to help get publishes webcomics at hicksvillecomics. 49. SUNDAY MAY 15 — 1.00-2.00PM ambulances to his house: television com. Karen Healey is the author of the ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE journalist Shlomi Eldar was on a live critically acclaimed novel Guardian of COMMONWEALTH news show in a Channel 10 studio in 46. SUNDAY MAY 15 — 11.15AM-12.30PM the Dead, co-founder of feminist comics “Caribou Island gets to places other Tel Aviv. Heart-rending footage of the ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE website Girl-Wonder.org and is writing a novels can’t touch . . .Though it wears the WRITERS’ PRIZE call shows Eldar listening, holding PhD on superhero comics as fan-created clothes of realism – the beautiful exactness back tears, as Abuelaish cries for help. There’s no denying we live in a time text. Together they discuss the medium of the language, the unerring eye for I Shall Not Hate is “a necessary lesson of major upheaval – in nature, politics they love and its continued evolution detail – it takes us someplace darker, against hatred and revenge” (Elie and economics. Are we facing the with Adrian Kinnaird, cartoonist and older, more powerful than the daylit Wiesel). It is an enlightening story sixth mass extinction? The dinosaurs writer of the award-winning New world. This Alaska with its salmon of Abuelaish’s life, a tribute to his 44. SUNDAY MAY 15 — 9.45-10.45AM were the big losers last time – what Zealand Comics blog, From Earth’s End. boats and trash dumps becomes a daughters and wife, and a call for peace. UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE future species will look back on extinct This illustrated event will give you an stage for ancient stories of survival Dr Abuelaish talks with the editor of humans with a mixture of awe and exclusive look behind the scenes of and will and connection and love, and the New Zealand Herald, Tim Murphy. Peter Simpson created this talk originally terror at their achievements and drive the storytelling process and artistic also, in the end, the failures of love.” Supported by Bloomsbury Publishers. for the Christchurch Art Gallery – it was to self-destruction? Paul Gilding, creation of a graphic novel, a must The New York Times Book Review to be given on 23 February in association Naomi Oreskes, Grant Redvers and Fred for all aspiring cartoonists! 51. 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By Event Participants Index Macdonald, Finlay, 23, 55 01. Works with Words, 43 Abuelaish, Izzeldin, 11, 58, 60 Mackay, Lachlan, 23, 43 02. Lunch with Fatima Bhutto, 43 Allendorf, Fred, 11, 58 Makereti, Tina, 23, 50, 54 03. New Zealand Listener Gala Night, 43 Ashton, Penny, 19, 44, 58 Manhire, Bill, 23, 51, 56, 59, 61 04. An Evening with A.A. Gill, 44 Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, 19, 43 Manning, Deborah, 23, 55 05. High Tea, 44 Auckland Theatre Company, 19, 56 McArtney, Dave, 23, 60 06. Saturday Night Rives, 44 Avia, Tusiata, 19, 44, 56, 59 McBride, Tim, 23, 55 07. Lunch with Madhur Jaffrey, 44 Barrett, Paul, 19, 56 McColl, Colin, 24, 56 08. Poetry Idol, 44 Barrowman, Fergus, 19, 56 McQueen, Cilla, 24, 51, 56 09. Michael Connelly and Barry, Maggie, 19, 53 Meek, Arthur, 24, 56 “The Lincoln Lawyer”, 45 Beattie, Graham, 19, 54 Miles, Anna, 24, 54 10. No Regrets, Edith Piaf, 49 Beckett, Bernard, 19, 64 Mitchell, David, 14, 53, 59, 61 11. Purple Dandelion, 49 Betancourt, Ingrid, 11, 55, 60 Morris, Paula, 24, 56, 59, 60, 63, 64 12. Climbing the Mango Trees, 49 Beu, Carole, 19, 49, 50 Murphy, Tim, 24, 58 13. War Wounds, 49 Bhutto, Fatima, 11, 43, 53 Nair, Shila, 24, 49 14. The Great Disruption, 49 Boock, Paula, 19, 56 Neale, Emma, 24, 50, 56 15. Laurence Fearnley, Emma Neale Bornholdt, Jenny, 20, 51 Nix, Garth, 14, 59, 63 & Charlotte Randall, 50 Braunias, Steve, 20, 55 Nixon, Carl, 24, 54, 56 16. Angels & Aristocrats, 50 Brown, Al, 20, 44 Obreht, Téa, 14, 60, 61 17. Short and Sweet, 50 Burke, Carolyn, 11, 49, 66 Oreskes, Naomi, 14, 54, 58 18. Talk to the Taliban, 50 Burnett, Kathryn, 20, 66 Orr, Sue, 24, 50 19. An Hour with Gail Jones, 50 Callister, Sandy, 20, 49 O’Sullivan, Vincent, 25, 53, 56 20. Secrets of the Brain with Barbara Strauch, 51 Campbell, Philippa, 20, 56 Paterson, Robyn, 25, 56 21. Poets Laureate, 51 Chunn, Mike, 20, 60 Perkins, Emily, 25, 53, 61 22. An Hour with David Mitchell, 53 Clare, Cassandra, 12, 59, 63 Plunket, Sean, 25, 50, 59 23. An Hour with Sarah-Kate Lynch, 53 Clayton, Hamish, 20, 54 Pooley, Leanne, 25, 56 24. Publishing Panel, 53 Cliff, Craig, 20, 54, 59 Preston, Joanna, 25, 56 25. An Hour with Fatima Bhutto, 53 Connelly, Michael, 12, 45 Psathas, John, 25, 43 26. The Movie May Be Slightly Different, 53 Cronin, Jan, 20, 55 Quigley, Sarah, 25, 54, 56 27. Inside Stories, 54 Devenie, Stuart, 20, 43 Randall, Charlotte, 25, 50 28. Michael King Memorial Lecture: Dreaver, Barbara, 20, 60 Ratuva, Steven, 25, 60 Naomi Oreskes, 54 Dunworth, Treasa, 20, 53 Redvers, Grant, 25, 49, 58 29. Carl Nixon & Sarah Quigley, 54 Elliott, Peter, 21, 56 Regnault, Claire, 26, 55 30. Emerging Writers, 54 Falkner, Brian, 21, 63 Reid, Atka, 26, 56, 60 31. An Hour with Claire Keegan, 54 Farrell, Fiona, 21, 43, 51, 56 Rives, 14, 43, 44 32. The Dress Circle, 55 Fearnley, Laurence, 21, 50 Rodger, Victor, 26, 43, 56 33. Law Into Action, 55 Fergusson, James, 12, 43, 50 Rosoff, Meg, 15, 43, 64 34. An Hour with Ingrid Betancourt, 55 Field, Michael, 21, 60 Rout, Morrin, 26, 56 35. Antarctica, 55 Forna, Aminatta, 12, 58, 59, 61 Ryan, Charlotte, 26, 60 36. Script to Screen, 55 Freeman, Lynn, 21, 56 Sainsbury, Thomas, 26, 56 37. Goodbye Sarajevo, 56 Gilding, Paul, 12, 49, 58 Samuel, Fiona, 26, 56 38. Best of Best New Zealand Poems, 56 Gill, A. A., 13, 43, 44 Sang, Ant, 26, 59 39. Inspiring Works, 56 Gledhill, Kris, 21, 55 Schofield, Hana, 26, 56, 60 41. This One’s for Christchurch, 56 Green, Paula, 21, 50, 56 Sharp, Iain, 26, 54 42. I Shall Not Hate, 58 Hager, Mandy, 21, 63 Simpson, Peter, 26, 58 43. An Hour with Aminatta Forna, 58 Hair, David, 21, 64 Sisterson, Craig, 26, 45 44. Leo Bensemann, 58 Hammonds, Lucy, 21, 55 Slane, Chris, 27, 59 45. Open Mike, 58 Healey, Karen, 13, 43, 59, 64 Smither, Elizabeth, 27, 51, 56 46. Saving the World, 58 Hill, Kim, 21, 50, 51 Stratford, Stephen, 27, 53 47. Graphic Novels, Comics & Cartoons, 59 Horrocks, Dylan, 21, 59 Strauch, Barbara, 15, 51, 54 48. Mauri Ola, 59 Hosking, Peter, 22, 55 Sullivan, Robert, 27, 56, 59, 60 49. An Hour with David Vann, 59 Hurst, Michael, 22, 56 Sultana, Farida, 27, 49 50. Fantasy: Freedom All Round, 59 Jacobs, Lauraine, 22, 44 Taylor, Apirana, 27, 44, 59 51. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, 59 Jaffrey, Madhur, 13, 44, 49 Todd, Ruth, 27, 56 52. An Hour with Téa Obreht, 60 Johnson, Stephanie, 22, 51, 61 Ussher, Jane, 27, 55 53. An Hour with Vincent Ward, 60 Johnston, Alexa, 22, 49 Vann, David, 15, 59, 61, 66 54. Songwriters Speak, 60 Jones, Gail, 13, 50, 61 Wake, Hal, 53, 58 55. Peace Please, 60 Kamo, Miriama, 22, 43 Walker, Geoff, 27, 53 56. Swimming with Sharks, 60 Keegan, Claire, 13, 50, 54, 66 Walsh, Frances, 27, 54 57. The Long and Short of It Awards, 61 Kinnaird, Adrian, 22, 59 Ward, Vincent, 27, 60 58. The Grand Finale, 61 Kisler, Mary, 22, 50 Ward-Lealand, Jennifer, 27, 56 60. WORDY DAY OUT, 62-64 Knox, Elizabeth, 22, 59, 61 Weir, Barnarby, 28, 60 70. Brainstorm: Creativity Workshop, 66 Laidlaw, Chris, 22, 55 Wells, Peter, 28, 55, 58 71. Brainstorm: Creativity Workshop, 66 Lanagan, Margo, 13, 59, 64 Wendt, Albert, 28, 59 72. Workshop: Carolyn Burke, 66 Langbein, Annabel, 22, 44 Whaitiri, Reina, 28, 59 73. Workshop: David Vann, 66 Legat, Nicola, 22, 60 Williams, Sean, 15, 63, 66 74. Brainstorm: Creativity Workshop, 66 Leggott, Michele, 23, 51 Winter, Jay, 15, 49 75. Workshop: Claire Keegan, 66 Lloyd Jenkins, Douglas, 23, 55 Young, Kenneth, 28, 43 76. Workshop: Sean Williams, 66 Lynch, Sarah-Kate, 23, 53

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