WELCOME 150 writers and thinkers will take CONTENTS TO THE 2013 the stage across five days, headed up by the inimitable William Dalrymple, 8 What’s On At The Festival returning NZ poet Fleur Adcock, 8 Wednesday 15 May AUCKLAND novelist legends Kate Atkinson, Anita 9 Thursday 16 May Desai and Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Pacific 10 Friday 17 May leader and honoured NZ writer Albert 13 Saturday 18 May WRITERS Wendt, non-fiction stars Sir Max 18 Sunday 19 May Hastings, Ben Goldacre and Pankaj 21 Workshops Mishra. There are guests from New 23 2013 Honoured NZ Writer – & READERS Zealand, Australia, India, Russia, Sri Albert Wendt Lanka, Italy, Spain, the United States, 35 Artist Biographies the Pacific and Great Britain. All will 65 Support the Festival FESTIVAL bring their magic to the stage, ideas 66 Index swirling out from between their lines 67 Booking Information to capture your hearts and minds. 68 Festival Information 69 Booking Form This year we’ve increased our free 72 Best Value Offers programme to include readings session 73 Timetable each afternoon, and created a book valuations event where you can bring CONTACT DETAILS WHERE MAGIC your prized volumes in for an on-the- spot valuation or just simply gather to 58 Surrey Crescent, Level 2, Suite 3, HAPPENS watch others share their treasures. In Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021, New Zealand partnership with ATC a Festival play Phone +64 9 376 8074, Fax +64 9 376 8073 A WORD FROM THE will take shape, with audience input, Email [email protected] FESTIVAL DIRECTOR across Saturday. Website writersfestival.co.nz We’ve also added two intimate evening VENUES concerts – Bill Manhire’s poems set to glorious music, and Leonard Cohen Aotea Centre, THE EDGE biographer Sylvia Simmons in a jam session with our own Don McGlashan; The Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium and there’s a stirring debate with Hammerheads Restaurant & Bar audience as interrogator and judge, alongside our high-energy, high-stakes Heritage Auckland gala storytelling event. The Northern Club Readers have a secret: they know that It’s all here on stage for five days in May. Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, behind the alphabetic symbols, between Good times, great ideas. The secret’s out The University of Auckland the lines, magic occurs. To state the – come and share the magic. obvious, a book is far more than the FESTIVAL TEAM sum of its parts; it’s a place where the world is reflected and explored, where Anne O’Brien – Festival Director pleasure and pain collide, where ideas Scott Ashton – Marketing & are articulated and shared. Development Manager Mel Weeks – Festival Administrator It’s impossible to summarise in a Phil Evans – Production Manager few paragraphs the range of writers, Mei-Lin Hansen – Production Assistant subjects and events that make up this Karen Tay – Marketing Assistant year’s Festival. There will be unique Lighthouse PR – Publicists opportunities to examine the critical Anne O’Brien Isabel Connelly – Intern flashpoints of the past and present, indulge in chats on gardening, wine, food and cricket, dig into science, travel beyond your borders and listen to poetry and song.

3 CELEBRATING A WORD FROM THE CHAIR PLATINUM PATRONS THE 2013 THE Erika and Robin Congreve Carol and Gerard Curry FESTIVAL PROGRAMME Josephine and Ross Green WRITTEN Dame Rosie and Michael Horton The James Wallace Arts Trust WORD GOLD PATRONS Betsy and Michael Benjamin The Auckland Writers & Readers Margaret Casey and Ivan Connell Festival is a celebration of ideas as Stephanie and John Clark much as of words. Each year it extends Barbie and Paul Cook and entertains us with some of the Dale D’Rose best writers and thinkers from NZ A WORD FROM THE MAYOR Dame Jenny Gibbs and around the world. In 2013, we Penny and Rod Hansen are privileged to have an impressive Pip Muir and Kit Toogood line-up of 150 writers in a compelling Georgina and Jolyon Ralston five-day event which culminates on Jenny and Andrew Smith THINK the afternoon of Sunday 19 May when Fiona and William Stevens we honour the great Samoan New Lady Tait Zealand writer and artist Albert Wendt. Douglas White The Festival also reaches out to future Shan Wilson and Gavin Scott audiences through a two day schools’ programme, and the delivery of a series SILVER PATRONS of stimulating sessions at Auckland Welcome to the Auckland Writers & BETWEEN Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki. The Board Readers Festival, the literary showcase Di and Graeme Edwards and staff are passionately committed of our major events calendar. Major Antonia Fisher and Stuart Grieve to ensuring that the Festival continues events play a significant role in Jo Gould on a strong footing. We measure our Auckland’s long term economic and Adina Halpern and David Flacks success both through top line audience social aspirations and we are fortunate Anne and Peter Hinton and stakeholder feedback, as well as to host such an array of internationally Mary Peters the bottom line result. I work with an acclaimed musicals, cultural festivals Fran and Geoff Ricketts THE amazing group of professionals on the and international sports events for Anthea and Peter Springford Board who bring skill and energy to the you to enjoy. We are so fortunate to Sue Wood governance of the Festival and support have such a large number of celebrated a small, excellent staff. This core team writers coming from far and wide as part BRONZE PATRONS expands significantly with a band of of this year’s Festival programme. Again 70 plus volunteers every year. I would this year, an estimated 3000 students Margaret Anderson and Sally Jackson like to take this opportunity to thank will take part in the annual Schools Judy Jordan and Trevor Bayly LINES them all. Finally, on behalf of the Board, Programme, participating in a variety Kate and Ant Howard I would like to express gratitude to our of sessions, workshops and sharing Jillian and James Macdonald audience, our writers and our loyal their stories with our guest writers. Rachel Maule sponsors and funders. Enjoy! What a great opportunity for our young writers and readers. So much to see, AUCKLAND WRITERS & READERS learn and do – I hope you enjoy your CHARITABLE TRUST BOARD time at the Festival and have time for some of Auckland’s wonderful scenery, Carole Beu, Erika Congreve, parks and restaurants during your busy Nicola Legat, Phillipa Muir, Dr Sarah Sandley schedule. I look forward to seeing you. Mark Russell, Sarah Sandley, FOR MORE INFORMATION Delina Shields, Peter Wells. VISIT WRITERSFESTIVAL.CO.NZ

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THOSE LIFE’S BOOKS FARAWAY EASY WE LANDS PLEASURES LOVE SCIENCE ART WORLD Explore exotic worlds Ponder life’s pleasures, and faraway places, past AND with cricket writer MUSIC Bask in the words of AT present and future, with Gideon Haigh, wine the books and writers Booker Prize shortlister REASON writer Joelle Thompson, POETRY we love the most, with WAR Anita Desai (India), gardeners Lynda Kate Atkinson (Behind Diego Marani (Finland), Hallinan and Janet The Scenes At The Museum), Shehan Karunatilaka Luke, food queen Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Sri Lanka), Peter Riordan Lauraine Jacobs, craft (The Shadow of the Wind), (The Middle East), Sharad Discover the world lover Rosemary McLeod, Celebrate art, music Albert Wendt (Sons For Examine the conflicts Paul (Tibet) and John of science and reason architect Ian Athfield, and poetry, with poets The Return Home), Ramona that have shaped our Sinclair (China). – medicine and and rare book auctioneer Jackie Kay, Ian Wedde, Koval (By The Book), Kate world and the people who pharmaceuticals, the Pam Plumbly. Fleur Adcock and Bill De Goldi (The ACB of have played a part in them digital revolution, Manhire, musician Don Honora Lee) and Edward with William Dalrymple mathematical minds, McGlashan, Leonard Rutherfurd (Paris). on Afghanistan, Sir Max dementia, God and Cohen biographer and Hastings on two world delusion, economics, with ukulele player Sylvie wars, Masha Gessen on Ben Goldacre, Aleks Simmons, and experts Russia and Putin, Jane Krotoski, Sir Lloyd on the art of Pat Hanly Tolerton on WWI and Sir Geering, Dr. Helena and Bill Culbert. Don McKinnon on the Popovic, Rebecca Priestley Commonwealth. and . Sylvia Nasar AND ANOTHER 110 OF THE WORLD'S BEST WRITERS AND THINKERS

6 7 (including hiding and presenting than 20 books, with the world wars FREE EVENTS misleading data). The lecture will be a specialty. He has also written a WHAT’S ON 40 minutes duration, followed by a 20 raw, soul-searching memoir of his The Festival offers more than 20 free WEDNESDAY minute question and answer session. THURSDAY famously dysfunctional tribe: father, AT THE sessions and readings events alongside its At the conclusion, Goldacre will be journalist and derring-do adventurer ticketed programme. Topics are diverse and 15 MAY available to autograph his books Bad 16 MAY Macdonald Hastings; mother, the FESTIVAL include politics, literature, architecture, Science and Bad Pharma. Introduced “merciless realist” and Harper’s Bazaar cultural affairs, film and gardening, by Professor Cindy Farquhar. This editor Anne Scott-James. Hastings alongside readings of fiction poetry and lecture is presented in association with talks about the effect they had on performance poetry. There is also a book The University of Auckland and the him and why, as a boy, he shot the valuations event so you can bring your Royal Society of New Zealand. television with his father’s pistol books for a free valuation, and live and while watching Perry Mason. A three interactive playwriting on Saturday in the Room: 505-011 – Lecture Theatre One, course meal, complimentary glass of foyer. Plus open invitation book launches. Ground Floor, Faculty of Medicine Crossroads wine and Sir Max will be PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS Events take place around the Aotea Centre SCHOOLS & Health Science, The University Of SCHOOLS an unmissable, heady mix. Introduced and beyond. Note: Limelight and Upper NZI Auckland, Park Road, Grafton (directly by New Zealand Listener editor Pamela FESTIVAL FLAVOURS SERIES events have limited capacity and seats are PROGRAMME opposite gates to the Domain in Park Road) PROGRAMME Stirling. Supported by HarperCollins. allocated on a first come, first served basis. APRIL 9, 16, 23 & 30, 5.30–6.30PM WEDNESDAY 15 MAY – 9.45AM–2.45PM THURSDAY 16 MAY – 9.45AM–2.45PM THE WHARE, 1ST FLOOR, AUCKLAND AOTEA CENTRE AOTEA CENTRE CENTRAL LIBRARY 02 04 SCHOOLS EVENTS SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL EVENT The Festival presents Oliver Phommavanh, The Festival presents Ben Goldacre, The Auckland Central Library and the On the 15th and 16th May, before Jackie Kay, Matt Elliott, Chris Slane and Kate De Goldi, Albert Wendt, Oliver Auckland Writers & Readers Festival are public core events begin, the Festival Kate De Goldi in four 45 minute sessions THE RULE OF Phommavanh, Patrick Ness, Lani NEW ZEALAND delighted to present four one-hour free hosts more than 2000 schoolchildren specially crafted for 10–14 year olds, Wendt Young, Libba Bray and Tama sessions, with a welcome glass of wine in 20 sessions and workshops featuring alongside four workshops for young readers. THE WEST IS OVER – Waipara in eight 45 minute sessions LISTENER GALA NIGHT from 5pm, to introduce the fabulous some of the Festival’s major guests, Day attendance is just $12 per student and specially crafted for 13–17 year olds, writer line-up for the 2013 Festival. A both international and local. This year must be booked through schools. For a WEDNESDAY DEBATE alongside four workshops for younger TRUE STORIES TOLD host of presenters, including Carole Beu, fiction, poetry, music, science, humour, full programme go to writersfestival.co.nz readers. Day attendance is just $12 per Kiran Dass, Karen Craig and Iain Sharp cartooning and short story will be on the student and must be booked through LIVE: AN OPEN BOOK will share their Festival writer and book programme. Day attendance is low-priced schools. For a full programme go to favourites and their new discoveries, as a and transport subsidies are available. 01 writersfestival.co.nz. warm-up for the main event 15–19 May. Bookings must be made by schools. SPECIAL EVENT For a full programme and booking information go to writersfestival.co.nz 03 CORE EVENTS CLINICAL TRIALS: SPECIAL EVENT In more than 40 ticketed events over three PUBLIC BOOK THE WHOLE TRUTH WEDNESDAY 15 MAY – 8.00–9.30PM days, over 100 writers from New Zealand ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE IN THE MAD HOUSE: and around the world will discuss their LAUNCHES AND NOTHING BUT work and the ideas that inform it. Expect Sharpen the grey cells. A heavyweight LUNCH WITH MAX to be entertained, inspired, informed, THURSDAY 16 MAY – 5.00–6.30PM THE TRUTH? foursome assess the current shift in provoked and challenged as writers take ALLELUYA BAR & CAFÉ, 183 KARANGAHAPE RD global power and debate the extent HASTINGS the stage. Events will range across fiction BEN GOLDACRE to which the East’s ascension spells and non-fiction, worlds real and imagined, Auckland University Press invites the West’s death knell. The jousters the past, present and future. readers to the launch of Poet Laureate are: historian William Dalrymple; Ian Wedde’s poetry collection The journalist and military historian Max THURSDAY MAY 16 – 7.00–8.30PM Lifeguard. All welcome. Hastings; economist Sylvia Nasar; and ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE SPECIAL EVENTS writer and essayist Pankaj Mishra. SATURDAY 18 MAY – 1.15–2.15PM Broadcaster and journalist Sean Plunket Trumpets. Fanfare. Storytelling A provocative debate on the rise of the East Q THEATRE, 305 QUEEN STREET will keep the peace, and the audience unedited and unplugged. Eight – with storytelling par excellence by eight of will have an opportunity to challenge of this year’s guest writers will our finest writers, William Dalrymple and Seraph Press invites readers to the the speakers and vote for the most THURSDAY MAY 16 – 12.00–2.15PM launch three days of action-packed Kate Atkinson on the main stage, musical launch of poet Paula Green’s collection WEDNESDAY 15 MAY – 12.30–1.30PM persuasive argument. HAMMERHEADS RESTAURANT public programming. Charged with interludes with a jazz combo inspired by The Baker’s Thumbprint. All welcome. THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND providing a seven-minute story Bill Manhire's poetry, and a Cohen-inspired A headmaster once said of Max inspired by the theme An Open Book, jam session with Sylvie Simmons and Don SATURDAY 18 MAY – 4.45–5.45PM In a lecture for medical specialists, Hastings that he “resembles a Chinese bestselling Spanish writer Carlos McGlashan. Not to mention our cricket AIR NZ FOYER, LEVEL 5, AOTEA CENTRE Ben Goldacre will address how health firecracker, which we expect to explode Ruiz Zafon, Pacific Island poet Selina lunch with Gideon Haigh, Sir Max Hastings professionals, doctors and regulators at any minute”. Hastings went on to Tusitala Marsh, Leonard Cohen on his wild family (Hammerheads) and Random House invites readers to the launch should respond to those pharmaceutical make his name as a correspondent biographer Sylvie Simmons, Scottish- afternoon tea in the lovely surrounds of of Festival founder Stephanie Johnson’s companies driven by marketing during the Falklands war, to edit The Nigerian poet, novelist and memoirist the Heritage Grand Tearoom. latest novel The Writing Class. All welcome. rather than best practice imperatives Daily Telegraph, and to author more Jackie Kay, novelist and founding

8 9 Festival trustee Stephanie Johnson, course meal and complimentary glass New Zealand is a remarkable look at a including the seeming obsession with Australian cricket and business 06 08 of Crossroads wine. Introduced by sometimes terrifying violent sub- food-as-experience and the Antipodean journalist Gideon Haigh, Sri Lankan journalist Eric Young. Supported by culture. Jarrod Gilbert speaks with The dream of owning a house in the burbs. novelist Shehan Karunatilaka and REMARKABLE WOMEN BOYS AT WAR the Australia Council for the Arts. New Zealand Herald editor Shayne Currie. He has also had a crack at the world of New Zealand poet and actor Peter arts funding. Come hear consumptive, Bland will be the snake charmers. modern living receive a flaying as he is Compered by Carol Hirschfeld. 10 12 quizzed by Simon Wilson. Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. THE RETURN OF TRAGIC BRILLIANCE: 14 FLEUR ADCOCK JOHN NASH & FREE EVENT FRIDAY MAY 17 – 10.00–11.00AM FRIDAY MAY 17 – 11.30AM–12.30PM GRIGORI PERELMAN FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION FRIDAY LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE TO THE EAST 17 MAY Memé Churton, Jacqueline Fahey In her latest book, An Awfully Big Adventure, and Aorewa McLeod are a spirited trio: journalist Jane Tolerton quarries first- a Chinese-Italian immigrant and hand interviews with veterans of arts and café society queen; an artist, the Great War, originally recorded for ` feminist and international traveller; the World War I Oral History Archive. and a lesbian academic. Each will In this session, she gives voice to the FRIDAY MAY 17 – 1.00–2.00PM talk about their experience of living moving reminiscences of those who not ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE – at times unconventionally – in only survived the war that killed 18,500 FRIDAY MAY 17 – 2.30–3.30PM New Zealand over the last 50 years, New Zealanders but lived to their 90's One of New Zealand’s most celebrated ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE 05 overseen by Jolisa Gracewood. when they were finally prepared to talk. and accomplished poets, Fleur Adcock FRIDAY MAY 17 – 2.30–3.20PM The session will include audio clips. decamped to England years ago. From there, American professor Sylvia Nasar is the LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE with poise and wit, she has examined and author of the award-winning A Beautiful AN HOUR WITH 07 rendered the human condition, notably: Mind, about the mathematician John Writers Diana Bridge, Anita Desai, 09 childhood; identity; love; rootlessness; Forbes Nash (played by Russell Crowe in Sharad Paul and John Sinclair read DON MCKINNON SPECIAL EVENT memory and loss; nature and place. She the movie of the same name). In Perfect work that evokes the East, introduced PAGE TURNING returns home on the publication of her Rigour, Russian journalist Masha Gessen by Paula Morris. latest collection Glass Wings to talk to Bill delves into the life and work of another WITH RAMONA KOVAL WICKET MATE! Manhire about her life in poetry. eccentric, Grigori Perelman, drawing partly on an interview Nasar once 15 GIDEON HAIGH LUNCH conducted with him. In conversation 11 with Steven Galbraith, they discuss the tragic tales of two of the 20th century’s AN HOUR WITH THE DEVIL’S mathematical geniuses. DIEGO MARANI FRIDAY MAY 17 – 10.00–11.00AM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE HENCHMEN 13 The former Secretary-General of FRIDAY MAY 17 – 11.30AM–12.30PM the Commonwealth, New Zealander ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE AN HOUR WITH Don McKinnon has written a memoir FRIDAY MAY 17 – 12.00–2.15PM – a compelling account of some of Dubbed by The Times Literary THE NORTHERN CLUB, AUCKLAND WAYNE MACAULEY the most turbulent episodes of his Supplement “Australia’s literary tenure, including high drama in Fiji microphone mistress”, the journalist Gideon Haigh is an Australian and Zimbabwe. For an insight into Ramona Koval has written a book journalist. He has written 26 books FRIDAY MAY 17 – 4.00–5.00PM the way in which an international (By The Book) in praise of the art of on cricket, and is a life member of ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE organisation navigates a politically reading. Koval’s own life has been the South Yarra cricket club where FRIDAY MAY 17 – 1.00–2.00PM complex world, join political literature-laced: at 12 she asked her in a “triumph of availability over LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE The relationship between language journalist Jane Clifton in diplomatic mother for a copy of the Kama Sutra ability” he holds the record for games and identity is central to the work conversation with a leading statesman. – and was provided with one – and played. His latest book On Warne is For more than five decades gangs have of Italian prizewinning novelist, has interviewed most of the world’s a highly acclaimed examination of claimed significant territory in New linguist and translator Diego significant writers. In conversation Shane Warne, one of cricket’s scandal- Zealand. Based on ten years of research, FRIDAY MAY 17 – 2.30–3.30PM Marani, an employee of the European with Carole Beu she talks about a magnets and a stellar proponent of that Jarrod Gilbert has got “as close to LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Commission and the inventor of the life defined by books. Supported by most refined art – leg-spin bowling. the gangs as anybody could without mock language Europanto. His novels the Australia Council for the Arts. Join Haigh for a lunchtime innings wearing a patch”, according to BAFTA Deceptively simple, Wayne Macauley’s New Finnish Grammar and The Last of on Warnie, and the changing face of winning filmmaker Ross Kemp. His sly and engaging prose satirises some the Vostoyachs are beautifully written, cricket besides, complete with three book Patched: A History of Gangs in decidedly first-world preoccupations, meditative explorations of

10 11 the defining nature of language, 18 20 22 part of this unique interactive event with 25 a subject he’ll traverse with the FREE EVENT SPECIAL EVENT Pip Hall, Arthur Meek and Victor Rodger New Zealand Listener’s Guy Somerset. in the writing chair. Supported by the NZ Society of Translators MR COHEN MAD ON RADIUM: & Interpreters and the NZ Centre for WRITERS FOR MANHIRE TO MUSIC Saturday morning. The foyer of the Aotea Literary Translation. REVEALED Centre is alive with people as they make their NZ IN THE YOUNG AND OLD FRIDAY MAY 17 – 8.30–9.30PM way towards the auditorium for another fix LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. In ATOMIC AGE 16 (CASH BAR) the foyer outside the box office, a large digital screen where a play script is taking shape. Jazz pianist Norman Meehan, Character names, dialogue, the occasional EVERLASTING FEAST: vocalist Hannah Griffin, saxophonist/ piece of stage instruction appear. Punters stop clarinettist Colin Hemmingsen and to take in the work as it emerges, and provide LAURAINE JACOBS poet Bill Manhire present a concert advice. There’s a Twitter feed on screen and of Manhire’s poetry set to original comments begin to appear: typos are pointed FRIDAY MAY 17 – 5.30–6.30PM music. In the round-table club setting out, alternative lines of dialogue suggested. ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE FRIDAY MAY 17 – 5.30–6.20PM of the Limelight Room, with a cash bar. The playwright sits at a modest desk out of LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE General admission seating. Supported the melee, headphones on, water bottle, coffee. SATURDAY MAY 18 – 10.00–11.00AM Now that Leonard Cohen has by Victoria University Press. Writing. The race is on: writer one delivers LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE declared that he will be eschewing YA writers Libba Bray, Kate De Goldi, the first sequence, then hands the baton on to interviews forthwith, Sylvie Simmons Paula Morris and Patrick Ness read writer two. Six and a half hours later a new Almost 30 years on from our nuclear-free is sitting pretty. A rock-music writer from their work, introduced by play is complete and about to be read. legislation, most New Zealanders see par excellence, Simmons has written Oliver Phommavanh. the country as an avowedly nuclear-free FRIDAY MAY 17 – 4.00–5.00PM an acclaimed biography of Cohen. 10.15 – 12.15 PM Writer 1 zone. They would be wrong. In Rebecca LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE She talks to Noelle McCarthy about Priestley’s fascinating and often hilarious 12.30 – 2.30 PM Writer 2 him, and some of her other musical 21 look at New Zealand’s associations with The Festival’s food queen, Lauraine subjects, including Neil Young and SPECIAL EVENT SATURDAY 2.45 – 4.45 PM Writer 3 radium, uranium and nuclear technology Jacobs, communes with another foodie Serge Gainsbourg. through the 20th century, we find a 5.15 – 6.30 PM Playreading & Q&A Graham Beattie in the wake of her country enamoured with the atomic age 18 MAY Upper NZI recently published memoir Everlasting RETURN OF THE KING: and exploiting its potential in a myriad of Feast. Interweaving food with her life 19 ways. Priestley talks to Wallace Chapman. story, Jacobs sheds light on both. WILLIAM DALRYMPLE OUR MONIED 24 26 17 FREE EVENT FREE EVENT WORLD AN HOUR WITH FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION 23 ANITA DESAI WORDS BETWEEN US: WORDS FREE EVENT FIRST MAORI-PAKEHA OUT LOUD FRIDAY MAY 17 – 7.00–8.15PM PLAY RELAY CONVERSATIONS ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE

Writer and raconteur William FRIDAY MAY 17 – 5.30–6.30PM Dalrymple returns with his latest LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE work of history, Return of The King, a comprehensive and compelling SATURDAY MAY 18 – 10.00–11.00AM Father and daughter CK Stead and account of the British invasion of ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Charlotte Grimshaw share a talent Afghanistan in 1839, launched by for fiction and a keen interest in one Lord Auckland after whom Anita Desai’s latest work The Artist of FRIDAY MAY 17 – 4.00–4.50PM contemporary life. Each has published New Zealand’s largest city is named. SATURDAY MAY 18 – 10.00AM–7.30PM Disappearance is a set of three novellas SATURDAY MAY 18 – 10.00–11.00AM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE a novel which draws on the worlds of Chillingly resonant today, it’s a UPSTAIRS FOYER, AOTEA CENTRE which explores the relationship between UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE money and politics and the milieu of parable of colonial ambition, cultural people, art and the contemporary Poets Miles Merrill, Courtney Meredith, the beautiful people: Stead has written collision, folly and hubris. After Auckland Theatre Company’s Literary world. Considered by many to be India’s Weaving archival images into a Ken Arkind and Carrie Rudzinski Risk; Grimshaw Soon. They will chat a presentation he’ll speak with Unit, in partnership with the Festival, greatest living writer, Desai speaks with discussion on Ma¯ ori and their initial perform their work, introduced by with Steve Braunias about how power Mark Sainsbury in a wide-ranging presents an insight into the process of Michael Moynahan about her life and relationship to writing, Alison Jones Michelle Bolton. plays out in their fictional landscapes. conversation covering Afghanistan playwriting. Three playwrights, one considerable craft. Supported by the and Kuni Jenkins talk about their and the East, then and now. Supported shared play written especially for the Asia New Zealand Foundation. award-winning book He Ko¯rero: Words by the Patrons of the Auckland Writers Festival over six hours and then read Between Us and what the first pieces of & Readers Festival. by the writers themselves. Come and be writing by Ma¯ ori can teach us about the

12 13 earliest – and ongoing – relationship on their provenance and worth. He speaks with Mark Sainsbury about of our times. Drawing in particular Hala Nasr: Africa; and Cheryl Pearl Sucher: between Ma¯ ori and Pa¯ keha¯ . Introduced Valuations run from 11.30am–1pm 30 the issues and options, as he sees them, from All Hell Let Loose, his critically the Americas – read the work of censored by Anton Blank. and are open to all. To set the mood, in addressing this national challenge. acclaimed history of World War II, writers and contribute to a follow-up and perhaps cap your expectations, the AN HOUR WITH Hastings surveys a century of wars, discussion about how fragile freedom session begins with a talk from rare their combatants and their victims. remains for writers in 2013. Chaired by 27 books aficionado Francis McWhannell. SHEHAN 32 Introduced by Dr. Adam Claasen. James George. Supported by PEN / NZSA. WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES KARUNATILAKA WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES Supported by HarperCollins. FALLING FOR THE BOOK 36 EN ROUTE THE FLIGHTLESS 34 WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES Francis McWhannell has long been TO VENICE – surrounded by books. When he was five, MONSTER: QUINN his grandparents bought The Dorothy AN HOUR WITH TATTOO AOTEAROA BILL CULBERT: Butler Children’s Bookshop, ensuring BERENTSON him a regular fix and initiating him into PATRICK NESS CHRIS HOULT IAN WEDDE the world of bookselling, a profession he has worked in since. But it was while & STEVE FORBES studying at university that he truly SATURDAY MAY 18 – 11.30AM–12.30PM fell in love with books and became a LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE collector. McWhannell discusses that most curious of characters – the rare In Shehan Karunatilaka’s novel book collector – and explains why in Chinaman, the mysterious disappearance the 21st century the book seduces of Sri Lankan spin bowler extraordinaire more than ever. Pradeep S Mathew preoccupies the SATURDAY MAY 18 – 11.45AM–12.45PM narrator, a retired sportswriter. It’s a AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM SATURDAY MAY 18 – 1.00–2.00PM SATURDAY MAY 18 – 10.15–11.15AM funny and original tale that deals with LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM 29 lost ambitions – including those of The title of writer and documentary SATURDAY MAY 18 – 1.15–2.15PM Sri Lanka where, by the by, the national maker Quinn Berentson’s Moa: A History Award-winning author of seven AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Ian Wedde, author of Bill Culbert: Making sport is volleyball. Commonwealth of Our Strangest Bird says it all. Berentson novels and a short story collection, Light Work, explains the marvels of his AN HOUR WITH Writers Prize winner Karunatilaka will will use 170 years of art and scientific Patrick Ness talks to Kate De Goldi In New Zealand Tattoo, photographer subject’s work, as 2013 sees the artist talk it through with cricket writer and illustration to tell the darker side of the about his new adult novel The Crane Chris Hoult and writer Steve Forbes going global – exhibiting in London and JACKIE KAY journalist Gideon Haigh. Supported by moa’s remarkable story – a twisted tale Wife, a magical story of love and document some of New Zealand’s São Paulo and representing New Zealand the Asia New Zealand Foundation. of rivalry, loathing and controversy that redemption and another of Ness’s leading tattooists, learning about their at the Venice Biennale. Supported by went hand in hand with the discovery hymns to the creative imagination. history, their craft and their community. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki. and study of the giant flightless monster. Supported by Allen & Unwin. Through photography they unfold the 31 Supported by Craig Potton Publishing and story of tattooing, identifying major FREE EVENT Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki. styles and traditions – ta moko, tatau and 28 35 tattoo – that have shaped the artform FREE EVENT FREE EVENT in Aotearoa. Supported by Auckland Art THE CASE AGAINST 33 Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki. LIVE BOOK VALUING SATURDAY MAY 18 – 11.30AM–12.30PM INEQUALITY PEN FREEDOM OF & COLLECTOR’S TALK ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE WAR IS HELL EXPRESSION 37 One of England’s most loved poets, as well as an accomplished memoirist, AN HOUR WITH short story and fiction writer, Jackie Kay brings to her writing a delight CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON in the real and the imagined, and an engagement with questions of identity. Scottish/Nigerian by birth and adopted by a white Scottish couple SATURDAY MAY 18 – 11.30AM–12.30PM (who met and married in New Zealand) UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE SATURDAY MAY 18 – 1.00–2.00PM SATURDAY MAY 18 – 11.00AM–1.00PM she speaks with Stephanie Johnson ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE SATURDAY MAY 18 – 1.00–2.00PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE about the themes that infuse her work For many, New Zealand’s growing UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE and the sources of her inspiration. income gap is alarming, with some One of the leading English journalists The Festival introduces a live book Supported by British Council New Zealand. seeing it as the most pressing economic of his generation, Max Hastings has Around the world, writers continue to be valuing event. Bring your literary and social problem facing the country. been a war correspondent, editor of harassed, imprisoned and tortured for SATURDAY MAY 18 – 2.30–3.30PM treasures to the Festival and expert In a new book on the subject, journalist both The Daily Telegraph and the London their work. Five writers representing five ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Pam Plumbly, from auction house Max Rashbrooke has edited a series of Evening Standard, and a remarkable regions – Masha Gessen: Russia; Robert ART+OBJECT, will provide the lowdown essays from a range of contributors. chronicler of the bloody conflicts Sullivan: the Pacific; Gilbert Wong: Asia; Spain’s mega-selling contemporary writer

14 15 Carlos Ruiz Zafon is an accomplished University of Kent. Migrations charts (Farm Gate Produce meats), Chris Neale), James McNeish’s memoir 46 48 blender of high and low literature. the much earlier journey of his great Ludbrook (Ludbrook House preserves) Touchstones paints a self-portrait of FREE EVENT Beginning with Shadow of the Wind he has grandparents from Scotland to New and Mark Tugendhaft (Coffee-LaLa one of New Zealand’s most accomplished FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION written a cycle of novels set in Barcelona Zealand, and is a thought-provoking beans) share their foodie tales. Enjoy writers abroad and at home. McNeish BAD SCIENCE, and in the literary universe of the rumination on travel, emigration a complimentary glass of bubbles expands on his witty and poignant tale Cemetery of Forgotten Books. In his first and identity. In conversation with and a delicious afternoon tea in the in conversation with Finlay Macdonald. BAD PHARMA FOOD FOR THOUGHT trip to New Zealand he speaks with Paula Glaswegian-born Iain Sharp. surrounds of the Heritage Grand Morris about his love of writing and Tearoom with inimitable food of literature. Supported by the Embassy writer Lauraine Jacobs and four 44 of Spain and Text Publishing. 40 of New Zealand’s food heroes. FREE EVENT FREE EVENT 38 FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION 42 ARCHITECTURAL POETS APLENTY AFFAIRS THE DARK ARTS THE RUINS OF EMPIRE: SATURDAY MAY 18 – 5.30–6.45PM SATURDAY MAY 18 – 5.30–6.20PM PANKAJ MISHRA ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Unpicking bad science is the best way In an age of first-world food obsession, to explain good science – this is the writers Wayne Macauley, Sue Orr, Dave philosophy of best-selling author, Veart and Ian Wedde read from work broadcaster, medical doctor and academic that celebrates or scorns these foodie Ben Goldacre who, on a regular basis, times, introduced by Peter Wells. sifts through relevant press releases, SATURDAY MAY 18 – 2.30–3.20PM SATURDAY MAY 18 – 4.00–5.00PM government reports and newspaper SATURDAY MAY 18 – 2.30–3.30PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE coverage. He has authored Bad Science and LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 49 Bad Pharma, in which he takes a withering SPECIAL EVENT Expat Fleur Adcock is joined by SATURDAY MAY 18 – 4.00–5.00PM Architects Ian Athfield (subject look at drug companies. In this session he’ll In Grand Pursuit economist and Peter Bland, John Newton and Maris ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE of Julia Gatley’s book Athfield) and deliver a presentation and then discuss journalism professor Sylvia Nasar O’Rourke for readings from their work, Julie Stout, and writer John Walsh with Sean Plunket the perils and pitfalls LIFE GOES ON: has crafted the story of a handful introduced by Paula Green. Pankaj Mishra’s From the Ruins of (most recently author of Big House, of current scientific communication. of 19th and 20th century men and Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Small House), discuss New Zealand’s The session will conclude with the KATE ATKINSON women whose influence in the field Asia is the story of the 19th century domestic architecture, and why it announcement of the Royal Society of of economics has changed the lives 41 journalists, poets, radicals and matters, with Home NZ editor New Zealand’s Science Writing Prize. of every person on the planet. In SPECIAL EVENT charismatics whose ideas have Jeremy Hansen. Supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand. conversation with Bernard Hickey. shaped the powerful Asian nations of the 21st century. From the Chinese AFTERNOON TEA: Communist Party to Al Qaeda, from 45 47 39 Indian nationalism to the Muslim FREE EVENT FREE EVENT FROM FIELD Brotherhood, the East is demystified. FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION In conversation with Damon Salesa. ARMCHAIR TRAVELS TO TABLE SATURDAY MAY 18 – 7.15–8.30PM MIGRATIONS 43 TIME SHIFTS ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE FROM THE NORTH Whitbread-winning Behind The Scenes at the Museum won Kate Atkinson AN HOUR WITH legions of fans. Since then she’s beguiled the world with a raft of novels including JAMES MCNEISH Case Histories and When Will There Be Good News, the latest of which – Life SATURDAY MAY 18 – 5.30–6.30PM After Life – hits the shelves in April SATURDAY MAY 18 – 2.30–4.00PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 2013. Spend a Saturday evening with HERITAGE HOTEL, AUCKLAND SATURDAY MAY 18 – 4.00–4.50PM one of the most loved writers of fiction LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE William Dalrymple’s travel writing working today. In conversation with SATURDAY MAY 18 – 2.30–3.30PM Celebrating the love and energy has charmed legions of fans and Australian writer, broadcaster and UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE that goes into bringing food to the Novelists Eleanor Catton, Karen Healey, opened up the world of India, in interviewer Ramona Koval. Supported table, in our afternoon tea event this Lawrence Patchett and Scarlett Thomas particular, to a broader audience. Share by Random House and the Patrons of the In 1969 Rod Edmond, a member of year we tuck in with four artisan read work that plays with and manipulates an hour with William Dalrymple as he Auckland Writers & Readers festival. the distinguished Edmond writing producers, each of whom feature SATURDAY MAY 18 – 4.00–5.00PM time, introduced by Renee Liang. reads and talks of the places and people clan, journeyed from New Zealand in Simon Farrell-Green’s book Food LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE who have informed and inspired his to England, where for many years he Heroes. Characters Paddy Griffiths travel writings. Introduced by Yvonne taught history and literature at the (Ringawera bread), Amanda Hellier “Rich in astonishing anecdote” (Emma van Dongen.

16 17 50 the prose of Scarlett Thomas. As well New Zealand writer and journalist deeply about since hearing Middle a rich variety of temporary buildings, SPECIAL EVENT as eight novels, including the Orange Rosemary McLeod has a passion for Eastern poets broadcasting in the transitional projects, and art installations longlisted The End of Mr Y, Thomas has needlework, celebrated in With Bold streets of Jordan. Ian is also a novelist has emerged. Freerange Press founder SUNDAY produced a guide to creative writing Needle and Thread. To mark the book’s and art critic. In conversation with John and joint editor of Christchurch: The POETRY IDOL (Monkeys with Typewriters) and teaches at publication, McLeod will use aprons from Newton, he’ll talk about his new poetry Transitional City Pt IV, Barnaby Bennett, the University of Kent. Discover why those her collection to unmask the domestic collection The Lifeguard: New Poems introduces some of these projects and 19 MAY who know her writing show such devotion. lives of women and to explore the 2018–2013, as well as his 2012 novel The talks about their role in the city as it In conversation with Paula Morris. messages behind their imagery. Supported Catastrophe. Expect to be persuaded that discovers its new self. Supported by by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki. poetry can change the world. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki. 54 FREE EVENT 56 58 60 FREE EVENT SATURDAY MAY 18 – 7.30–10.00PM 52 AN ANTHOLOGY RUSSIAN AFFAIRS: WHAT THE INTERNET LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE THE GOOD LIFE THE MICHAEL KING MEMORIAL LECTURE OF NEW ZEALAND MASHA GESSEN IS DOING TO YOU Poetry Idol is our rambunctious, sell-out slam in which 10 poets – from HOW HUMANS MADE LITERATURE fledglings to the old hands – go head- to-head for the Festival Champion GOD: LLOYD GEERING crown, and $500, under the guidance of Hot Pink Poet Penny Ashton. Judges include international performers Miles Merrill and Ken Arkind, alongside our own Selina Tusitala Marsh. Want SUNDAY MAY 19 – 11.30AM–12.30PM to perform? To book an audition, visit SUNDAY MAY 19 – 11.30AM–12.30PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE SUNDAY MAY 19 – 1.00–2.00PM writersfestival.co.nz before 6 May ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE for further information. SUNDAY MAY 19 – 10.00–11.00AM Chickens in the backyard and dinner UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Russian journalist Masha Gessen’s from the garden seem the city-slicking Just how is the most revolutionary SUNDAY MAY 19 – 10.00–11.00AM acclaimed biography of Vladimir rage these days. What’s given rise to innovation of our time – the Internet 51 ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Jane Stafford and Mark Williams have Putin has been called courageous the trend and is it really viable? Not to – transforming our world? How has it SPECIAL EVENT knocked off a Herculean task, editing an and chilling. The Man Without A Face: mention the thorny question of whether changed our concepts of privacy? Of At 95, theologian Sir Lloyd Geering anthology of New Zealand literature. In The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin is a flowers will survive the reign of the love? Of belonging? Of bad behaviour? continues his lifelong inquiry into the discussion with Iain Sharp they conduct a detailed and incisive look at the Russian vegetable? Join Lynda Hallinan, Janet Join BBC and Guardian digital SIMMONS & nature of the divine and the human. He sweep of our writing – reading selections, president, and the starting point for a Luke and Tony Murrell in conversation technology specialist Aleks Krotoski remains robust and articulate, impressively identifying dominant influences and discussion with Geraint Martin on the about the greening of our backyards, in conversation with Toby Manhire MCGLASHAN SING taking on cosmologist Lawrence Krauss themes, and gauging what sets it apart current state of Russian affairs. and what to look for in a good chicken. discussing the internet as provocateur at last year’s Festival. Geering’s latest book, from literary traditions elsewhere. and catalyst for a new world order. COHEN, ETC. From The Big Bang to God, sets the scene Supported by Auckland University Press. Supported by ChenPalmer: NZ Public for this year’s Michael King Lecture, a 57 59 & Employment Law Specialists. discussion of how humans made God, WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES introduced by Professor Brian Boyd. 55 CHANGING THE WORLD WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES CHRISTCHURCH: 61 53 THE SECRET LIFE A WORD AT A TIME A TRANSITIONAL CITY A TALE OF PARIS BRIGHT UNIVERSES OF APRONS: SATURDAY MAY 18 – 8.30–9.45PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE ROSEMARY MCLEOD (CASH BAR)

Leonard Cohen biographer Sylvie Simmons has her ukulele; New Zealand troubadour Don McGlashan his guitar. SUNDAY MAY 19 – 11.30AM–12.30PM Together they’ll sing songs: hers, his, LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE SUNDAY MAY 19 – 11.45AM–12.45PM SUNDAY MAY 19 – 1.00–2.00PM Leonard’s and, in between, talk about AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE songwriting, in the Festival’s club SUNDAY MAY 19 – 10.00–11.00AM For the past two years, in his job as setting. Introduced by Mike Chunn. LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE New Zealand’s poet laureate, Ian Wedde Out of the sadness, difficulty, and From the grand master of the historical General admission; cash bar. SUNDAY MAY 19 – 10.15–11.15AM has championed the role of poetry in relentless change that has characterised novel comes an epic portrait of the City Supported by APRA/AMCOS. Big ideas and deft storytelling characterise AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM public life, something he has cared Christchurch over the past two years, of Light. Internationally bestselling

18 19 author Edward Rutherfurd, who has 64 66 2012, unleashing an onslaught of copy- 70 72 enchanted readers with his sweeping, WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES cat titles. Join Sarah Stuart, Eleanor FREE EVENT multigenerational books, now sets his Catton and Shehan Karunatilaka in FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION sights on Paris in a saga of love, war THE OFFICE: conversation with Nicky Pellegrino WILD WINEMAKING and intrigue. He speaks with Jim Mora THE JOY OF ART: about the 50 Shades phenomenon. about his new novel Paris and the other A HOTBED HISTORY REPEATING cities that have dazzled him. Supported PAT HANLY by Hachette NZ. 68 RON BROWNSON FREE EVENT 62 FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION FREE EVENT READING SUNDAY MAY 19 – 4.00–5.00PM GOD OF THE STONES THE WORLD LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE SUNDAY MAY 19 – 2.30–3.30PM SUNDAY MAY 19 – 4.00–5.00PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE The way journalist Joelle Thomson LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE tells it in her new book The Wild Bunch, SUNDAY MAY 19 – 1.15–2.15PM As Ricky Gervais and Don Draper make the pioneers of New Zealand’s wine Writers Kate Atkinson, Hamish AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM clear, beneath the ordered surfaces of industry – now worth $1.2 billion Clayton, Charlotte Grimshaw and any office it’s all high drama. In his in exports – are mavericks brimming Tanya Moir read selections from their Arguably the most beautiful publication book, The Office, Australian journalist with ambition, vision, and tenacity. work that reference the repeating of of 2012, Pat Hanly takes as its subject and elegant stylist Gideon Haigh traces She discusses the movers, shakers history, introduced by Peter Wells. one of New Zealand’s great artists. the working site’s history, from its and groundbreakers of New Zealand SUNDAY MAY 19 – 1.00–2.00PM Senior curator and personal friend beginning with merchants and monks SUNDAY MAY 19 – 2.30–3.20PM wine in conversation with wine lover UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Ron Brownson will talk about Hanly’s to its present day incarnations in glass LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Eric Young. pioneering commitment to staying put boxes. Referencing pop culture, art and Following in the footsteps of the rather than going abroad, and share the film, fiction and folklore, Haigh reveals Stephanie Johnson, Ramona Koval, famed English travel writer H V Morton, joy that is to be discovered in Hanly’s art. the office to be a hotbed of invention Mary Paul and CK Stead read work 71 freelance journalist and Travcom Travel He will also reveal the gallery’s latest and ingenuity, as well as a way of seeing that celebrates the inspiration that is FREE EVENT Book of the Year award winner for Gods Hanly acquisition. Supported by Auckland the world beyond the water cooler. writing and literature, introduced by of The Stones, Peter Riordan journeys Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki. Chaired by James Elliott. Supported by Jane Stafford. WORKSHOPS through the Middle East, tracing the the Australia Council for the Arts. FACTION birth of Christianity while observing the region’s present day religious, 65 69 cultural and political pressures. He 67 speaks with Yvonne van Dongen. LIVING WITH FREE EVENT WHO ARE YA? 63 DEMENTIA FIFTY SHADES FREE EVENT OF WTF FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION SUNDAY MAY 19 – 4.00–5.00PM 74 MASTERCLASS IDENTITY UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE One of the most intriguing recent THE WRITING CLASS local films is Alyx Duncan’s The SUNDAY MAY 19 – 4.00–5.00PM Red House, featuring her non-acting STEPHANIE JOHNSON ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE parents playing themselves in a drama SUNDAY MAY 19 – 2.30–3.30PM presented as a documentary. In an age ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE As a relatively new immigrant-stacked of scripted reality, what does the dance SUNDAY MAY 19 – 2.30–3.30PM nation, with a rapidly shifting ethnic between truth and invention deliver to Dr. Helena Popovic, a brain specialist UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE make-up, how inclusive are we? Do we see an audience? In search of authenticity, and author of In Search of My Father, ourselves as one people, or does diversity do drama hybrids cross an ethical line SUNDAY MAY 19 – 1.00–1.50PM and Kate De Goldi, whose latest book Mention the S&M-themed 50 Shades of define us, encouraging us to identify more or can the very process of imagining LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE The ACB of Honora Lee references dementia, Grey in company and many judgements strongly with the places from which we lead to greater truths? Duncan explores are both daughters of dementia sufferers. will be passed – literary merit, bad have come rather than the place where we these questions with documentary Who are we and what defines us? In a warm and candid conversation about soft porn, feminist empowerment, now stand. Join Paul Diamond, Manying maker Annie Goldson. Presented in FRIDAY MAY 17 – 9.00–11.00AM Such questions will inform readings this devastating disease, they discuss marketing genius – and on it will go. Ip, Damon Salesa and 2013 New Zealander association with Script to Screen. GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE by Renee Liang, Diego Marani, Emma the ways in which we can build resilient Whichever side of whatever divide of the Year Dame Anne Salmond, with Martin and Kirsten McDougall, brains, defy cognitive decline and manage you’re on, there’s no question that the Sir Don McKinnon in the chair, for an Stephanie Johnson has taught introduced by Rod Edmond. the experience of dementia. book was the publishing sensation of examination of New Zealand-ness. writing for many years. Her most

20 21 recent novel – The Writing Class – is 76 78 80 82 essentially a primer on novel writing, WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WORKSHOP WORKSHOP 2013 with a writing course woven into a story. Come and lend fact to fiction, HONOURED flesh to fantasy! This is a masterclass CREATIVE IDEAS FAST THE SHORT STORY WRITE TO SPEAK CHARACTER & PLOT for writers with a novel already in NEW ZEALAND progress. Ten participants will be KATHRYN BURNETT WAYNE MACAULEY MILES MERRILL ELEANOR CATTON chosen on the basis of submitted WRITER material. Applicants should post a ten- page extract plus one-page synopsis to the Festival offices at Suite 3, Level 2, 58 Surrey Crescent, Auckland 1021 to be received no later than April 17 marked Masterclass: Stephanie Johnson. Successful applicants will 73 be advised by Wednesday April SPECIAL EVENT 24. Please note that you must be FRIDAY MAY 17 – 2.00–3.30PM SATURDAY MAY 18 – 9.00–10.30AM SATURDAY MAY 18 – 1.00–2.30PM SUNDAY MAY 19 – 9.00AM–12.00PM willing for your submissions to GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE be circulated electronically to ALBERT WENDT workshop participants once you Whether you're hunting for a new Writer and Melbourne University Can you deliver a speech without a prop, aka The theory goes that the difference have accepted a place. idea or just need a creativity injection, teacher Wayne Macauley will dissect Powerpoint? Does your audience nod off? between genre fiction and literary this short, sharp workout will get the craft of the short story, discussing This workshop uses one of poetry’s defining fiction depends on the balance between your right brain firing. Participants his own method and looking at historical characteristics – saying more with less – to get character and plot. In genre fiction, 75 generate ideas with writer and examples before participants complete a you delivering a speech with punch. Write characters exist only to further plot; WORKSHOP creativity consultant Kathryn short writing exercise followed by group To Speak looks at using live story-telling in literary fiction, plot exists only to Burnett and then test out their discussion and questions. This workshop to get your message across. You’ll explore elucidate character. In this workshop favourite! (Note: sharing optional.) is open to all levels of experience. many aspects of performing and writing we put the theory to the test, discussing POETRY & PLACE Supported by BNZ Literary Awards from holding a microphone to tightening strategies for creating compelling and the Australia Council for the Arts. your text. Limited to 20 participants. characters and surprising plots, and JACKIE KAY 77 Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. examining the relationship between WORKSHOP character and plot in our own work. Join 79 Eleanor Catton in a three-hour intensive WORKSHOP 81 workshop. Writers of all ages and levels ONE TRUE SENTENCE of experience are welcome. WORKSHOP SUNDAY MAY 19 – 5.30–6.45PM SCARLETT THOMAS MAKING SENSE FROM THE INTERVIEW 83 ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE OF THE MACHINE WORKSHOP In 1973 an emerging writer by the name of TO THE PAGE Albert Wendt delivered his first novel. Sons FRIDAY MAY 17 – 11.30AM–1.00PM ALEKS KROTOSKI For The Return Home was groundbreaking, GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE JANE TOLERTON WRITE TO SPEAK exploring love, freedom and racism in Aotearoa New Zealand. It was made into a film and Using the themes of memory and MILES MERRILL became a secondary school text. Forty years place, and attachments and aversions on, in the largest Polynesian city in the world, to place, accomplished poet Jackie SUNDAY MAY 19 – 1.00–2.30PM Maualaivao Albert Wendt CNZM, Emeritus Kay will lead participants in an FRIDAY MAY 17 – 4.00–5.30PM GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Professor of English at The University of investigation into how the locations GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Auckland, continues to break new ground we love become poems, and how poems See Event 80. as a novelist, poet, playwright, short story are often intimate maps. The workshop Ernest Hemingway once said that writer and artist. In 2012 alone he published begins with participants writing a good writing begins with “one true SATURDAY MAY 18 – 11.00AM–12.30PM the poetry collection From A Manoa Garden to poem and is open to all. Supported by sentence”. George Saunders has argued GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE SATURDAY MAY 18 – 3.30–5.00PM Ponsonby and the short story collection Ancestry. GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 84 British Council New Zealand. that truth exists on the level of the WORKSHOP Wendt’s contribution to the literary landscape sentence. So how can we begin to write This workshop led by Aleks Krotoski is immense; his body of work an inspiration true sentences? What do they rarely will critique the technologies that Journalist Jane Tolerton helped set up the to generations of readers; his contribution to a contain? Do different fictional forms we use – often unthinkingly – on a World War I Oral History Archive in 1987 CREATIVE IDEAS FAST Pacific literature unmatched. To celebrate his require different kinds of sentences? daily basis. In the workshop, attendees and interviewed 85 veterans. In her new accomplishments, this session will bring the Can you change the meaning of a explore Google’s relevance and value, book An Awfully Big Adventure she presents KATHRYN BURNETT sounds of the Pacific to the stage: live Samoan novel with just one sentence? Find debate how successfully or otherwise their stories. In this workshop, she discusses music; excerpts from Wendt’s writing read out with novelist and creative Google delivers on its stated objectives, how to interview and write up results into SUNDAY MAY 19 – 3.30–5.00PM by leading writers; and Wendt himself, who writing teacher Scarlett Thomas. and then create their own version of great stories that can be handed down GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE will distil his life and writing in conversation Google. For an insight into Krotoski’s the generations, using examples from with Robert Sullivan. 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Fleur Adcock CNZM is one of New Zealand’s Possibly the best known architect Barnaby Bennett is a designer, creative Peter Bland is a poet and actor who Brian Boyd is a distinguished professor of Wellington poet Diana Bridge has most accomplished poets with more than in the country, Ian Athfield has won activist and editor and founder of divides his time between New Zealand English at The University of Auckland. lived in India, China, Singapore, Hong 15 collections, largely focussed on human multiple awards in New Zealand and Freerange Journal and Press, which and the United Kingdom. He made His writing has appeared in 17 languages, Kong and Taiwan. She has a Ph.D. in relationships and everyday activities. She internationally for his domestic and aims to produce beautifully designed his name as one of the co-founders and won awards on four continents. He classical Chinese poetry and taught at has lived most of her life in England and commercial work. He is a principal publications on issues relating to of Downstage and served as artistic is best known for his groundbreaking Hong Kong University. In 2010 she was has returned to celebrate her new poetry of Athfield Architects and was an urbanised humanity, including director from 1964 to 1968. His latest biography of Nabokov. Other interests awarded the Lauris Edmond Memorial collection Glass Wings. celebrated in the 2012 book of the Christchurch: A Transitional City Part IV. publication is Collected Poems 1956–2011. include science, art and religion. Award for distinguished contribution same name, written by Julia Gatley. projectfreerange.com to New Zealand Poetry. KEN ARKIND KATE ATKINSON QUINN BERENTSON ANTON BLANK STEVE BRAUNIAS RON BROWNSON UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND ENGLAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Ken Arkind is an American National Anton Blank (Nga¯ti Porou / Nga¯ti Steve Braunias is a staff writer at Poetry Slam Champion, Tedx Fellow and Kate Atkinson MBE is an international Quinn Berentson is a writer, documentary Kahungunu) is an Auckland writer and Metro magazine. His latest book, Ron Brownson is the Senior Curator published author. He is the Executive best-selling novelist and the winner filmmaker and photographer with a consultant, and the editor of Ma¯ori Civilisation: Twenty Places at the Edge of New Zealand and Pacific Art at Director of Denver Minor Disturbance, of the Whitbread Prize for Behind the Masters of Science Communication. literary journal Ora Nui. He is also the of the World, is an examination of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki. He an independent literary arts organisation Scenes at the Museum (1995). Other Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Executive Director of national Ma¯ori small-town New Zealand and has has worked as a professional curator for dedicated to helping youth find voice books include Case Histories (2004), Legendary Bird is his first book and was child advocacy organisation Ririki been described as a “gothic western”. 35 years and is also known for being one through poetry and performance. One Good Turn (2006), When Will There published in 2012. and a member of the Glenn Inquiry of Auckland Libraries' most committed Be Good News? (2008) and her latest, on domestic violence. readers, ploughing through about 1000 PENNY ASHTON Life After Life. kateatkinson.co.uk CAROLE BEU LIBBA BRAY books per year. MICHELLE BOLTON UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND GRAHAM BEATTIE NEW ZEALAND KATHRYN BURNETT NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Best-selling YA writer Libba Bray is Globe-trotting comedian, poet and Carole Beu’s life is immersed in the world the author of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, improviser Penny Ashton was the of books and reading as owner of The Michelle Bolton is a poet and event the award-winning Going Bovine and midwife for the Festival’s now fully Graham Beattie is a full-time book blogger, Women’s Bookshop and board member organiser with a special interest in Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist Kathryn Burnett is an accomplished grown Poetry Idol which she MCs. She reviewer and awards judge, following a of both Booksellers NZ and the Auckland mental health. She is the writers’ Beauty Queens, a satire that crosses screenwriter, playwright, author and has represented New Zealand in both highly successful career as a publisher for Writers & Readers Festival. She also co-ordinator for The Butterfly Diaries Lost with America’s Next Top Model. columnist with credits including poetry and Theatresports, performed Penguin and Scholastic. Beattie’s Book Blog regularly reviews books on radio and project due for release in 2013, has Her latest novel is The Diviners, set Shelved, The Cult, Amazing Extraordinary around the world and recently become is one of the country’s most read, receiving television. womensbookshop.co.nz featured at a number of poetry events in 1920s New York. libbabray.com Friends, The Strip and Mike & Virginia. a wedding celebrant. hotpink.co.nz in excess of 12,000 visitors a week. He across Auckland and is co-founder of Burnett is also a screenplay assessor has just started a specialty food blog. the NZ National Poetry Slam. and runs writing and innovation beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz workshops. kathryn-burnett.com

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Eleanor Catton is a rising star of Growing up in fascist Italy and then New Zealand Listener columnist Jane Clifton Much loved writer, broadcaster and speaker Alyx is a filmmaker and choreographer James Elliott is a practising lawyer, New Zealand fiction and a creative working as a diplomat in China has been writing about New Zealand Kate De Goldi is the author of a number in genres spanning live performance, corporate MC, speaker, comedian, writing teacher. Her first novel The during the revolution, Memé Churton politics for most of her 30 years as a of books, including the internationally installation, video-dance, documentary writer and radio host. He appears on Rehearsal won acclaim around the came to Auckland in 1950, becoming journalist. She also loves gardening and acclaimed The 10PM Question. Her and experimental filmmaking. She has the Late, Late Breakfast Show, Nine to world including receiving the UK a vibrant member of Auckland’s animals, writes television reviews and new novel is The ACB with Honora just completed her first feature film, Noon, 7 Days, has written for both The Society of Authors Betty Trask Award. burgeoning cultural and social scene. published a humorous political memoir, Lee, a playful and multi-layered work The Red House, which premiered at last New Zealand Herald and the New Zealand Her second novel The Luminaries will She has just published her eponymous Political Animals, in 2005. exploring kindness, patience and aging. year’s NZIFF and releases nationwide Listener and has a show in this year’s be published this year. memoir Memé. in March 2013. alyxduncan.com Comedy Festival. WALLACE CHAPMAN ADAM CLAASEN SHAYNE CURRIE ANITA DESAI ROD EDMOND JACQUELINE FAHEY NEW ZEALAND INDIA / UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Shayne Currie is editor of The New Zealand Heralded as the greatest living Indian Wallace Chapman is a broadcaster Dr. Adam Claasen is a senior lecturer Herald, New Zealand’s highest circulation writer, Anita Desai is a Fellow of the Emeritus Professor at the University Distinguished artist and writer and public speaker. He is host of in modern history, a former Fulbright newspaper. Winner of several national Royal Society of Literature and the of Canterbury in Kent, Rod Edmond Jacqueline Fahey has lived a rich life as Prime Television’s pub politics show scholar, the recipient of an excellence journalism awards, his journalism career American Academy of Arts and Letters is an award-winning writer in the an accomplished painter, wife of famous Back Benches and Sunday Mornings with award in teaching and the author of began as a crime and police reporter at the and a retired professor of literature. Her fields of Victorian and postcolonial psychiatrist Dr Fraser MacDonald, Wallace Chapman on Radio Live. His Dogfight: The Battle of Britain. Evening Post in Wellington and has also latest book, The Artist of Disappearance, is a writing, and the history and literature influential teacher at Elam and lively first book Don’t Just Do Something, Sit involved a stint as a crime reporter at the collection of three finely crafted novellas. of empire. His new book Migrations feminist. In 2012 she published her There – A Manifesto For The Slow Living New York Post. Supported by the Asia NZ Foundation. charts the journeys of his Scottish second volume of fascinating memoir, Life is published in May. HAMISH CLAYTON forebears to New Zealand. Before I Forget. MIKE CHUNN NEW ZEALAND WILLIAM DALYRMPLE PAUL DIAMOND MATT ELLIOTT STEVE FORBES SCOTLAND / INDIA NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Hamish Clayton is the current Buddle Findlay Frank Sargeson Trust Fellow, where he is working on his second Award-winning travel writer, historian Paul Diamond (Nga¯ti Haua, Te Rarawa A former member of Split Enz and novel. His first book, Wulf, won the and journalist William Dalrymple lives and Nga¯puhi) is a writer, historian, Writer Matt Elliott is the co-writer Steve Forbes has a degree in political Citizen Band, Chunn is the founder and NZSA Hubert Church Award for best in his adopted India where he is one broadcaster and the current Curator, of Nice Day For A War, the 2012 NZ Post science and a graduate diploma in CEO of the Play It Strange Trust which first book of fiction in 2012. of the founders of the Jaipur Literary Ma¯ori at the Alexander Turnbull Children’s Book of the Year Award journalism. He currently works as a implements music programmes for Festival. An eloquent speaker, his latest Library. He has written two books: winner, inspired by his grandfather’s freelance journalist and is planning New Zealand schools. He has published book is Return of a King, providing unique A Fire in Your Belly: Ma¯ori Leaders Speak diary. In collage format, it tells the a second book following on from his several books including the Split Enz insight into Britain’s failure to colonise (2003) and Makereti: Taking Ma¯ori to story of Cyril Elliott who went off as a successful collaboration with Chris biography Stranger Than Fiction (1992). Afghanistan. williamdalrymple.uk.com the World (2007). teenager to fight in World War 1. Hoult to produce New Zealand Tattoo.

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Steven Galbraith is an associate Masha Gessen is a Russian-American Annie Goldson has been producing Hannah Griffin trained as a jazz vocalist Gideon Haigh is a freelance journalist Jeremy Hansen is a writer, journalist professor of pure mathematics at The journalist who has had work published and directing award-winning in Christchurch and Wellington. She and the author of 27 books, most of them and the editor of HOME New Zealand University of Auckland. He returned in The New Republic, New Statesman, documentaries, docudramas and has performed extensively in many focussed on cricket. Praised for his witty magazine. He writes regularly about to New Zealand in 2009 after taking Granta, Slate and Vanity Fair. Her experimental film/video for 20 years contexts and recorded albums with and erudite writing, in 2012 he released architecture and other subjects for his masters at Georgia Tech (USA) latest book The Man Without a Face: in the United States and New Zealand. composer and multi-instrumentalist On Warne, a biography of the maverick a variety of publications and is the and doctorate at Oxford University The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, Her best-known titles include Brother Nick van Dijk, Rosie Langabeer’s large cricketer and The Office: A Hardworking co-writer, with Patrick Reynolds and and then working in the United follows intriguing works on genetics Number One, Punitive Damage, Elgar’s ensemble Zirkus and Norman Meehan’s History. gideonhaigh.com Supported by Jeremy Salmond, of Villa: From Heritage Kingdom for 13 years. and mathematics. Enigma and An Island Calling. jazz ensemble. the Australia Council for the Arts. to Contemporary. LLOYD GEERING JARROD GILBERT JOLISA GRACEWOOD PADDY GRIFFITHS PIP HALL MAX HASTINGS NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND ENGLAND

Sir Lloyd Geering CBE ONZ has shown Dr Jarrod Gilbert is a sociologist and A freelance literary editor and book Paddy Griffiths is the bread baking Pip Hall has worked in theatre, film Sir Max Hastings is a renowned a lifelong commitment to grappling with researcher at Christchurch’s Independent reviewer, Jolisa Gracewood has a brains behind Ringawera, a highly and television for almost 20 years journalist, war historian and foreign contemporary religion. A Presbyterian Research Solutions. Patched: A History Ph.D in Comparative Literature from successful wha¯nau based baker as a playwright, writer, storyliner, correspondent who has served as minister tried for heresy in 1967, he of Gangs in New Zealand is the result of Cornell University. She has taught non- on Waiheke Island. He started the story/script editor, developer, creative editor of The Telegraph and the Evening is an Emeritus Professor at Victoria ten years of research with unparalleled fiction writing at Yale, co-edited two company in 2007, making lavash, after producer and actor and has multiple Standard. His latest books are a memoir University of Wellington. His latest gang access. collections of Japanese literature many years working in restaurants and awards to her name. She also created, of his famously dysfunctional family book is From The Big Bang To God. for beginners and written a popular features in Simon Farrell-Green’s book performs in and produces water ballet and All Hell Let Loose, his acclaimed book blog at publicaddress.net Food Heroes. company Wet Hot Beauties. on WWII. maxhastings.com JAMES GEORGE BEN GOLDACRE ENGLAND PAULA GREEN CHARLOTTE GRIMSHAW LYNDA HALLINAN KAREN HEALEY NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor, James George is a novelist, short story non-fiction author and the Guardian writer and creative writing teacher of columnist on a mission to teach The Baker’s Thumbprint is Paula Green’s Charlotte Grimshaw is an acclaimed Editor-at-large of NZ Gardener and Back Karen Healey is an award-winning YA Ngapuhi, English and Irish descent. His the public about good science by new poetry collection which will be novelist, short story writer and To the Land author Lynda Hallinan is a writer based in Christchurch. Guardian novel Hummingbird was a Montana New talking about Bad Science, the title launched during this year’s Festival. She columnist whose writing is praised for grow-your-own guru. Having mastered of the Dead won the 2010 Aurealis Award Zealand Book Awards finalist and Ocean of his bestselling first book. In 2013 has previously published seven poetry its intelligence, tautness and cutting inner-city self-sufficiency, in 2010 she and was a finalist for the American Roads a Commonwealth Writers Prize he wrote Bad Pharma, a dissection collections including two for children, insight into contemporary manners. moved to the Hunua Ranges, planted Library Association’s prestigious Asia / Pacific region shortlisted title. of the pharmaceuticals industry. reviews poetry and is a tireless advocate Her 2012 novel Soon is a piercing look 300 heirloom fruit trees, put in a 1/2-acre William C Morris Award. Her third badscience.net Supported by the for the importance of poetry. at current times both socially and vege plot and amassed a menagerie of novel When We Wake, was published in Royal Society of New Zealand. politically. charlottegrimshawauthor.com edible animals. lyndahallinan.com 2013. karenhealey.com

40 41 AMANDA HELLIER CAROL HIRSCHFELD LAURAINE JACOBS ALISON JONES RAMONA KOVAL CHRIS LUDBROOK NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND

Amanda Hellier and her husband own Ma¯ori Television executive Carol Former President of the NZ Guild of Professor Alison Jones from the School For over 20 years, Ramona Koval was In 1859 the first Ludbrook homestead was Farm Gate farm in the wild, isolated Hirschfeld has worked for more than Food Writers, Lauraine Jacobs is the of Mäori Education at The University of the host of ABC radio’s The Book Show. dragged by bullock from Waimate North reaches of the Far North. They tend 200 25 years as a news reporter, presenter, food columnist for the New Zealand Auckland is well known for her writing She has published interviews with to Ohaeawai. Four generations later, free-range heritage pigs, a few sustainably director, producer and executive Listener as well as an internationally and teaching on Mäori-Päkehä educational international writers and written By the Ludbrook House, the 1920 homestead, is raised beef cattle, as well as heritage producer. She is a passionate advocate respected food and wine writer with relationships. He Körero: Words Between Book: A Reader’s Guide to Life, celebrates the home to Chris & Sam Ludbrook and chickens, ducks and geese, as featured for books and reading and has been a eight cookbooks to her credit. Her food Us is a collaboration with her colleague the books and writers that have inspired where Chris makes the old-fashioned in Food Heroes. thefarmgate.co.nz ‘Reading Role Model’ Ambassador for memoir Everlasting Festival is published and friend, educationist Kuni Jenkins. her. ramonakoval.com Supported by the preserves which feature in the 2012 NZ Book Month. in April 2013. laurainejacobs.co.nz Australia Council for the Arts. book Food Heroes. ludbrookhouse.co.nz COLIN HEMMINGSEN CHRIS HOULT KUNI JENKINS SHEHAN ALEKS KROTOSKI JANET LUKE NEW ZEALAND KARUNATILAKA NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND SRI LANKA

Colin Hemmingsen trained in Auckland and Boston, and was principal Chris Hoult started his photographic Kuni Jenkins, Ngäti Porou, is a professor Aleks Krotoski is a broadcaster, Janet Luke lives in Havelock North bassoonist with the NZSO before career at the Levin Chronicle where of education at Te Whare Wänanga Winner of the 2012 Commonwealth Writers journalist and academic specialising in and is a qualified landscape architect directing his professional focus to he mastered the craft of daily news o Awanuiärangi. A leader in Mäori Prize for his novel Chinamen: The Legend technology and interactivity including with a passion for sustainable design jazz performance and teaching. Colin photography. In the last ten years he has education, she has written extensively of Pradeep Matthew, Shehan Karunatilaka for the BBC and the Guardian. Called one and eco-living. Her book Green Urban has recorded a number of albums, worked as a freelancer and published on Mäori educational history. Her most studied business at Massey University and of the “Top Ten Girl Geeks” by CNET in Living provides simple steps to growing performs regularly and teaches jazz three books including New Zealand Tattoo recent book He Kärero: Words Between Us works in the world of advertising for an 2006, her book Untangling The Web will food, keeping chickens, worm farming, improvisation. colinhemmingsen.com in collaboration with writer Steve Forbes. is co-authored with Alison Jones. array of corporate clients. shehanwriter.com be published in 2013. beekeeping and more. Supported by the Asia NZ Foundation. BERNARD HICKEY MANYING IP STEPHANIE JOHNSON JACKIE KAY RENEE LIANG WAYNE MACAULEY NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIA SCOTLAND / NIGERIA

Bernard Hickey is an independent Dr Manying Ip is a Professor in Asian Stephanie Johnson is the author Renee Liang is a poet, playwright, Wayne Macauley is the author of three financial commentator who regularly Studies at The University of Auckland of two collections of poetry, three One of the United Kingdom’s most loved fiction writer, arts blogger, paediatrician novels including the award-nominated appears on television and radio. He is a and a respected advocate for New Zealand’s collections of short stories, ten novels writers, Jackie Kay teaches at Newcastle and mother. Her poetry has appeared The Cook. Previous work includes contributing editor at interest.co.nz and Chinese communities. Her books and is a founding trustee of the University and writes prizewinning internationally in journals and Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe and writes a weekly column on economics include Transmigration and the new Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. poetry, fiction, memoir and short stories. anthologies and three plays have Caravan Story. He has also published and business for the Herald on Sunday. Chinese and The Dragon and the Taniwha: Her new book, to be launched at the Recent works include the memoir Red toured nationally. Liang also organises short stories and teaches creative He has worked for Fairfax, Reuters and Mäori and Chinese in New Zealand. Festival, is The Writing Class, a novel Dust Road, poetry collection Fiere and community initiatives such as New Kiwi writing at the University of Melbourne. the FT Group. interest.co.nz about how to write a book. short story collection Reality, Reality. Women Write, a workshop for migrant waynemacauley.com Supported by the Supported by British Council New Zealand. women. chinglish-renee.blogspot.com Australia Council for the Arts.

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Finlay Macdonald has worked as a Diego Marani is an Italian novelist, Irish broadcaster Noelle McCarthy is a Sir Don McKinnon is a former Sir James McNeish is a novelist and Arthur Meek writes for stage and screen journalist, columnist, publisher and translator and newspaper columnist familiar voice on Radio New Zealand, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister biographer and the author of 25 and is the recipient of the 2013 Harriet broadcaster, and was the editor of the who works for the European where she hosts the Summer Noelle of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. books and plays. He received the Friedlander New York Residency. He New Zealand Listener from 1997–2003. Commission and is the inventor of show. She has written about books and He was Secretary-General of the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary wrote On the Upside Down of the World for Among other things he is currently the mock international language culture for a variety of publications, and Commonwealth of Nations from 2000 Achievement in Non-Fiction in 2010 Auckland Theatre Company in 2011 and Journalist-In-Residence at AUT’s School Europanto. His novels include the she worships at the church of Leonard to 2008, documented in his memoir In and was knighted in 2011. His latest is currently developing his new play, of Communications in Auckland. prizewinning New Finnish Grammar Cohen on a regular basis. The Ring, and has been nominated for book is the memoir Touchstones. The Trees Beneath the Lake. arthurmeek.com and The Last of the Vostyachs. the Nobel Peace Prize. BILL MANHIRE EMMA MARTIN KIRSTEN MCDOUGALL AOREWA MCLEOD FRANCIS MCWHANNELL COURTNEY SINA NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND MEREDITH NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Bill Manhire is a world-renowned poet The Invisible Rider is Kirsten McDougall’s Francis McWhannell has a lifelong who has won the New Zealand Book Emma Martin won the 2012 acclaimed debut novel in discontinuous Novelist Aorewa McLeod taught at love of books and a particular interest Prize four times. A respected professor Commonweath Short Story Prize for the narrative. A winner of The Long and the University of Auckland in the in New Zealand literary and fine press Courtney Sina Meredith has held and teacher, he was the founding head title story of her debut collection, Two The Short of It story competition, she English department for 37 years until publications. He currently works at international residencies and her of the International Institute of Modern Girls in a Boat, which she launches in has a Masters in Creative Writing and her retirement and then did an MA in Jason Books, having previously run writing has been published and Letters, from which he recently retired 2013. Her work has appeared in Granta has published in Sport, Turbine and Big Creative Writing. Her first book Who Bethunes at Webb’s, the rare book translated around the world. Her first to devote himself to writing fulltime. online, the New Zealand Listener, Sport Weather: Poems of Wellington (2nd edition). Was That Woman Anyway?: Snapshots department of Webb’s Auctions. book of poetry Brown Girls in Bright Red and Hue and Cry. She lives in Wellington. of a Lesbian Life was launched in Lipstick was launched at the Frankfurt February 2013. Book Fair 2012. courtneymeredith.com TOBY MANHIRE GERAINT MARTIN DON MCGLASHAN NORMAN MEEHAN NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND ROSEMARY MCLEOD NEW ZEALAND MILES MERRILL NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND UNITED STATES / AUSTRALIA

Toby Manhire is an Auckland-based Songwriter, composer and musician Norman Meehan is a pianist trained in columnist and blogger for the New Geraint Martin is the CEO of the Don McGlashan has been a member Wellington, Philadelphia, Boston and San Zealand Listener and The New Zealand Counties-Manukau District Health of several iconic New Zealand bands Outspoken journalist, columnist Francisco. He has released six albums as Dubbed “Australia’s spoken word tour de Herald, and a Guardian correspondent. Board and Chair of the Auckland including Blam Blam Blam, The Front and writer Rosemary McLeod has leader, the most recent featuring song force,” Miles Merrill is a Chicago-born poet He served as comment editor for The Philharmonia Orchestra. Alongside Lawn and The Mutton Birds. Over the written for most of New Zealand’s settings by poets e.e. cummings and Bill whose work combines poetry with theatre, Guardian for three years and edited his health management expertise, he last few years, he has embarked on a solo major publications, as well as for Manhire. He teaches history and critical experimental audio, stand-up comedy, and The Arab Spring: Rebellion, Revolution retains a lifelong interest in matters career and will release a new album in television. She also harbours a passion papers for the NZ School of Music. the occasional political confrontation. and A New World Order. Russian – historical, musical and 2013. donmcglashan.com for domestic craft, celebrated in her He is also the Creative Director of the literary – since his undergraduate days. beautifully illustrated new book literary arts organisation Word Travels. With Bold Needle & Thread. Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.

44 45 PANKAJ MISHRA PAULA MORRIS SYLVIA NASAR JOHN NEWTON LAWRENCE PATCHETT NICKY PELLEGRINO INDIA NEW ZEALAND / ENGLAND GERMANY / UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Pankaj Mishra shares his time between Paula Morris is a novelist, short story Sylvia Nasar is a journalist, economist John Newton is a poet, literary I Got His Blood On Me is Lawrence The author of six best-selling novels, India and England and writes fiction, writer and writer-in-residence at the and Columbia University Professor historian and occasional musician. Patchett’s highly praised first collection Nicky Pellegrino is a freelance journalist travel literary and political essays for University of Sheffield. Her third YA whose work has been published in the He is the author of The Double Rainbow: of short stories. A winner of The Long and the editor of the Herald on Sunday’s a number of international journals book, Ruined, was published this year New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and James K. Baxter, Nga¯ti Hau and the and The Short of It story competition, he book pages. Her work has been widely including the New York Times and The and she also has a number of award- the New York Times (where she was an Jerusalem Commune, and this year has a PhD in Creative Writing and has translated and she a strong international Guardian. His new book is From the Ruins winning novels to her credit including economics correspondent). She is the published his third volume of poems published in Sport, Landfall, Hue & Cry, following. nickypellegrino.com of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Rangatira, the NZ Post Book Award author of A Beautiful Mind, and Grand Family Songbook. Turbine and other publications, as well Asia. pankajmishra.com fiction winner in 2012. paula-morris.com Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius. as on radio. lawrencepatchett.com MARIS O’ROURKE OLIVER PHOMMAVANH TANYA MOIR MICHAEL MOYNAHAN HALA NASR MARY PAUL AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Oliver Phommavanh is a Thai- Maris O’Rourke was NZ Secretary for Australian children’s writer, primary Tanya Moir studied at the Hagley Michael Moynahan has recently retired Hala ‘Cleo’ Nasr is a published Education, Director of Education at Mary Paul is a senior lecturer in English school teacher and stand-up comedian. Writers’ Institute in 2008 and received as the CEO of HarperCollins ANZ after experimental poet and passionate the World Bank and an international Literature with a particular interest in He has published four books for younger the Margaret Mahy Best Student a 25 year publishing career which has local activist of Egyptian heritage. consultant before embarking on a New Zealand writers in an international readers including Thai-riffic, Thai-No- Award. Her second novel, which taken him as far afield as India and She has gained a reputation for her writing career in 2007. She has published context. Most recently she edited and Mite, Con-Nerd and Punchlines and is follows the well-received La Rochelle’s beyond. He has also served as Chair of confrontational content and delivery in international journals and released a wrote an introduction to a collection of passionate about using humour to Road, is Anticipation. She has worked the Publishers Association of NZ, New style, focusing on issues of social justice children’s book and the poetry collection Robin Hyde’s autobiographical writing get children reading. oliverwriter.com in television in New Zealand, Italy Zealand Book Month and the Auckland and challenging assumptions about Singing With Both Throats. Your Unselfish Kindness. Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. and the United Kingdom. Writers & Readers Festival. identity and gender. JIM MORA TONY MURRELL PATRICK NESS SUE ORR SHARAD PAUL PAM PLUMBLY NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND / INDIA NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND UNITED STATES / UNITED KINGDOM

Sue Orr’s first book, Etiquette for a Dr Sharad Paul is a skin cancer Pam Plumbly is New Zealand’s leading Jim Mora hosts Afternoons on Radio Tony Murrell is a landscape designer Two-time winner of the Carnegie Dinner Party won the Lilian Ida Smith specialist, senior lecturer at the rare book and manuscript auctioneer NZ National and has presented and and broadcaster who hosts the weekly Medal, Patrick Ness is one of the world’s Award and her second, From Under Universities of Queensland and with over 25 years’ experience. In written many TV programmes, from The Home and Garden Show on Radio leading YA writers best known for his the Overcoat, won the People’s Choice Auckland, UNESCO commission 2009 she moved to Auckland from documentaries to reality television. Live. He is also the author of Tony Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Award in the 2012 NZ Post Book member and the founder of a literacy Dunedin and took up a position at With Brent Chambers he created the Murrell Garden Designs to Enhance Calls. He has also written adult and Awards. She is writing a novel and foundation. He has written two novels ART+OBJECT where she holds three rare popular Massey Ferguson animated TV Your Life and travels nationwide as short story fiction and taught creative working towards a doctorate at Cool Cut and To Kill a Snow Dragonfly, and book auctions a year, including New series, and Stains Down Drains which a landscape and design consultant. writing, launching his new novel The Victoria University. the April 2013 book Skin. bacigroup.com Zealand’s most successful ever in 2011. screened around the world. murrellgroup.com Crane Wife in 2013. patrickness.com

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New Zealand Listener Masha Gessen, 19 De Goldi, Kate, 8, 9, 12, 15, 20, 39 Ness, Patrick, 9, 12, 15, 46 Gala Night, 9 57. Changing the World a Word Desai, Anita, 11, 13, 39 Newton, John, 16, 19, 47 05. An Hour with DonMcKinnon,10 at a Time, 19 Diamond, Paul, 21, 39 O’Rourke, Maris, 16, 47 06. Remarkable Women, 10 58. The Good Life, 19 Duncan, Alyx, 21, 39 Orr, Sue, 17, 47 07. Page Turning with Ramona 59. Christchurch: Edmond, Rod, 16, 20, 39 Patchett, Lawrence, 17, 47 Koval, 10 A Transitional City, 19 Elliott, James, 20, 39 Paul, Mary, 21, 47 08. Boys at War, 10 60. What the Internet is Elliot, Matt, 8, 39 Paul, Sharad, 11, 47 09. Wicket Mate! Gideon Haigh Doing to You, 19 Fahey, Jacqueline, 10, 39 Pellegrino, Nicky, 20, 47 Lunch, 10 61. A Tale of Paris, 19 Forbes, Steve, 15, 39 Phommavanh, Oliver, 8, 9, 12, 47 10. The Return of Fleur Adcock, 11 62. God Of Stones, 20 Galbraith, Steven, 11, 40 Plumbly, Pam, 14, 47 11. The Devil’s Henchmen, 11 63. 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Words Between Us, 13 The Short Story, 22 Hirschfeld, Carol, 9, 42 Stout, Julie, 17, 50 27. En Route to Venice: 79. Aleks Krotoski: Making Sense Hoult, Chris, 15, 42 Stuart, Sarah, 20, 50 Bill Culbert, 14 of the Machine, 22 Ip, Manying, 21, 42 Sucher, Cheryl Pearl, 15, 50 28. Live Book Valuing and 80. Miles Merrill: Write to Speak, 23 Jacobs, Lauraine, 12, 16, 42 Sullivan, Robert, 15, 23, 50 Collector’s Talk, 14 81. Jane Tolerton: From the Jenkins, Kuni, 13, 42 Thomas, Scarlett, 17, 18, 22, 50 29. An Hour with Jackie Kay, 14 Interview to the Page, 23 Johnson, Stephanie, 9, 14, 21, 42 Thomson, Joelle, 21, 50 30. An Hour with Shehan 82. Eleanor Catton: Jones, Alison, 13, 43 Tolerton, Jane, 10, 23, 50 Karunatilaka, 14 Character and Plot, 23 Karunatilaka, Shehan, 9, 14, 20, 43 Tugendhaft, Mark, 16, 51 31. The Case Against Inequality, 14 83. Miles Merrill: Write Kay, Jackie, 8, 9, 14, 22, 43 Tusitala Marsh, Selina, 9, 18, 51 32. The Flightless Monster: to Speak, 23 Koval, Ramona, 10, 17, 21, 43 van Dongen, Yvonne, 17, 20, 51 Quinn Berentson, 15 84. Kathryn Burnett: Creative Krotoski, Aleks, 19, 22, 43 Veart, Dave, 17, 51 33. War is Hell, 15 Ideas Fast, 23 Liang, Renee, 17, 20, 43 Waipara, Tama, 9, 51 34. An Hour with Patrick Ness, 15 Ludbrook, Chris, 16, 43 Walsh, John, 17, 51 35. PEN Freedom Of Expression, 15 Participants Index Luke, Janet, 19, 43 Wedde, Ian, 14, 17, 19, 51 36. Tattoo Aotearoa, 15 Adcock, Fleur, 11, 16, 36 Macauley, Wayne, 11, 17, 22, 43 Wells, Peter, 17, 21, 51 37. An Hour with Carlos Arkind, Ken, 12, 18, 36 Macdonald, Finlay, 16, 44 Wendt, Albert, 9, 23, 51 Ruiz Zafon, 15 Ashton, Penny, 18, 36 Manhire, Bill, 11, 13, 44 Wendt Young, Lani, 9, 52 38. The Dark Arts, 16 Athfield, Ian, 17, 36 Manhire, Toby, 19, 44 Williams, Mark, 18, 52 39. Migrations From The North, 16 Atkinson, Kate, 17, 21, 36 Marani, Diego, 11, 20, 44 Wilson, Simon, 11, 52 40. 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