OUR PARTNERS of Spectator columnist A.N. Wilson and CONTENTS THE AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL IS ENORMOUSLY GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT OF: Miranda Carter. 12 What’s On WELCOME Looking to past and future, Lloyd Platinum 13 Saturday April 29 Geering recaps his 99 years; scientist 13 Tuesday May 16 Lawrence Krauss pushes forward the 14 Wednesday May 17 TO THE 2017 Doomsday Clock; Chaos science writer 16 Thursday May 18 James Gleick explores literary notions 17 Friday May 19 of time travel; and Mpho Tutu van 25 Saturday May 20 AUCKLAND Furth, daughter of Desmond, leads a 34 Sunday May 21 timely examination of forgiveness. Gold 41 Family Day WRITERS Amongst it all, art in all forms 43 Workshops consoles: we celebrate two of 59 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards American’s contemporary fiction 67 Biographies FESTIVAL greats: the Raymond Carver-tutored 102 Timetable Denis Johnson and MacArthur 105 Booking Information Fellow George Saunders; Shakespeare 106 Booking Form comes alive with James Shapiro; Ian 108 Festival Information Rankin leads the crime pack 109 Index alongside Stella Duffy and David Silver A WORD FROM THE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Schmid; Irish fiction laureateAnne FESTIVAL TEAM Enright, Chinese expat Ha Jin, Canadian Booker shortlister Anne O’Brien Madeleine Thien, and contemporary Festival Director US ‘it’ girl Chris Kraus line up, Tessa Yeoman alongside Apirana Taylor and our Marketing & Development Manager 2017 Honouree Dame Fiona Kidman. Roger Christensen Carol Ann Duffy returns in Programme Co-ordinator Bronze performance, and locals Hera Lindsay Susanna Andrew Bird, Andrew Johnston and Bill Programme Co-ordinator Manhire talk poetry. We welcome Irish Claire Mabey In a year when the unexpected became jazz singer and memoirist Mary Contract Programmer the norm, writers were to the fore, Coughlan; dine with restaurant critic Catherine Braoudakis exercising their craft to explore our Jay Rayner; explore art and photography Festival Administrator rapidly changing world. In a one-off with New York Times writer Teju Cole and Nik Janiurek event in April, and six great days in local Anthony Byrt; and hear new songs Production Manager May, we celebrate their brilliance. inspired by 2017 Festival books with Penny Hartill Other Partners Steve Abel, Anna Coddington, Reb Publicity Manager From the defiant New York Times comes Fountain and Francis Kora. Olivia Boyle Thomas Friedman, and from Britain Marketing Assistant polymath John Lanchester and Lauren Child and Harry Potter comedic genius Armando Iannucci Hijinks head up our family-friendly (our April guest), to unravel matters, events; there’s the High Street mini- CONTACT DETAILS foreign, financial and political. festival Walk on High; a Town Hall Best of the Best spoken word showcase; Suite 9A, Wellesley Centre, Exploring questions of gender and a sail around the Hauraki Gulf; and 44-52 Wellesley Street, Auckland 1010 identity, with candour and skill, are Aotea Square comes alive with pop-up PO Box 6038, Wellesley Street, Pulitzer Prize winning Susan Faludi, venue the Heartland Festival Room Auckland 1141 feminist powerhouse Roxane Gay, and and its nightly salons, and Pop Poetry Phone (09) 376 8074 Canadian storyteller Ivan Coyote. projections each evening. [email protected] Italian Embassy – Wellington Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty’s The writersfestival.co.nz Sellout looks at race through a satirical And that’s only the beginning. @AklWritersFest lense and Australian Stan Grant Extraordinary times call for #AWF17 through moving memoir. extraordinary people and we’re privileged and proud to present more than 170 of Closely linking non-fiction and fictional them in this year’s programme. worlds are Libyan Hisham Matar, Swede Steve Sem-Sandberg, and New You’ve got to LOVE STORY. Zealand’s Catherine Chidgey. History Design & Production and biography also resound in the work Anne O’Brien Programme designed by Hawkins&Co. Printed by MHP Group on Sumo Offset from BJ Ball Papers, an environmentally responsible paper produced using Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF), FSC® certified Mixed Source pulp from Responsible Sources, and manufactured under the strict ISO14001 Environmental Management System. 3 WORD FROM THE CHAIR Christine & Derek Nolan BRONZE SPONSORSHIP Maria Renhart SUPPORT OUR Gretchen Albrecht & James Ross The Auckland Writers Festival is one of Judith Shea & Keryn Smith Brenda & Stephen Allen this country’s premiere cultural events Jenny & Andrew Smith Raynor Asher and its largest and most successful Fiona & William Stevens THE SUPPORTERS Lisa Bates & Douglas Hawkins literary event, hosting world-leading Lady Tait Katherine Burson commentators and writers in Auckland Tiare Tolks & Michael Robinson Louise & Robert Clark every year. The Festival is a highlight of Susan & Gavin Walker FESTIVAL Amber Coulter & Andrew Lewis New Zealand’s cultural calendar, with Prue Wallis Nicola & Julius Fox annual attendances of more than 65,000 Shan Wilson & Gavin Scott Sue Francis & Chris Bridgeman Nau mai ki te Hui Taurima Kaituhi at over 150 events and it continues to Fran Wyborn Jenny Freedman & Huw Turner o Ta¯maki Makaurau. grow. Based on your company’s current FOUNDING TRUSTEES Anna Friis & Wayne Schuler objectives, we can work with you to We are delighted to bring you the SILVER Jane & Kevin Glover tailor a sponsorship package that Stephanie Johnson & Peter Wells 2017 Auckland Writers Festival. Due Clare Gordon WORD FROM THE MAYOR provides maximum benefit. David Appleby to growing demand on tickets, we are Danielle Guitard & Andrew Ferrier CURRENT TRUSTEES Libby & Andrew Barrett expanding into the Aotea Square this Bridget Hackshaw & Michael Savage Ewa & David Bigio year, with our new Festival venue, The Carole Beu Anne Hargreaves JOIN AS A FRIEND AND MAKE THE MOST Clare Bradley & Brian Carter Heartland Festival Room. We hope OF THE FESTIVAL Josephine Green Katie Jacobs you will join us for the events in this Pip Greenwood Rosie Brown & Graham Wall Deborah & Allen Jowitt exciting new space. Membership is $100 (inc. GST). Nicola Legat Michael Connor Kathy Kane & Nigel Harrison You’ll receive: Pip Muir (Chair) Deborah Chambers Elizabeth & Heath Lees We are continuing with a key Mark Russell Maria Dew & Mark Parris Jean & Paul Lochore strategic initiative of investing in reserved seating at all ticketed events Delina Shields Rebecca Ellis Elaine & Dennis Lunken youth education and school literacy priority booking and a dedicated Robert Sullivan Cathy & Alice McKay programmes – particularly for low Sarah Fay Welcome to the 17th Auckland booking line (no fees) Malcolm Middleton decile schools. To this end, our Antonia Fisher & Stuart Grieve Writers Festival, a celebration of local FOUNDING DONORS Geraldine O’Sullivan Beere three-day Schools Programme at the invitations to Festival Programme Tana and Charles Fishman and global literature here in the heart Frank Olsson start of the Festival has been further Launch Erika & Robin Congreve Christine Fernyhough of Auckland. Amanda Parker & Richard Williams expanded to include one full day for Nan & John Fogarty news of visiting authors, events and Jane Parlane year 5-6 students. Overall, up to 7,000 The festival has become a popular CURRENT PATRONS Friedlander Foundation special offers year-round. Karen Pedersen & David Findlow students will have the opportunity fixture on Auckland’s cultural Annie Gascoigne Caroline & Paul Restall to attend the Schools Programme. calendar with record attendance last Please note numbers are limited. PLATINUM Bridget Hanley & Mike Allen Nadine Rubin Nathan & Paul Nathan This will be followed by a diverse and year as people of all ages flocked to see Frances & Bill Bell Catherine & Michael Hapgood Nicky Ryan & John Dixon exciting three-day main programme a great line-up of international and BECOME A PATRON, Betsy & Michael Benjamin Anne & Peter Hinton Meagan & Nelson Schick that we hope will inform, entertain local writers. CHAMPION THE FESTIVAL AND Mary Biggs & Peter Biggs CNZM Linda Holloway Miranda Spary and challenge you. This year the festival is moving HELP SECURE ITS FUTURE Adrian Burr & Peter Tatham Kate & Ant Howard Anonymous (4) I'm privileged to work with a talented beyond our shoreline with a literary Carol & Gerard Curry Lauraine & Murray Jacobs Join as a Patron before you book your group of trustees on the Festival Board. boat trip on the Waitemata¯ Harbour, Josephine & Ross Green Judy Jordan & Trevor Bayly DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS tickets to make the most of your We are a not-for-profit charitable trust exploring the history of the Hauraki Dame Rosie & Michael Horton membership and help ensure the Carol-Ann & Max Lamb We are a small organisation with a big and as such the trustees bring skill and Gulf, and taking to our footpaths The Wallace Foundation future of the Festival. Jenny & Robert Loosley task. We need your help to keep doing dedication to the governance of the with a walking tour through one of Shelley McMeeken what we do and to present the Festival Festival, on a voluntary basis. My deep our city’s historic precincts. To thank them for their crucial GOLD Jillian Macdonald you love. appreciation also goes to our small, support, our Patrons: I am a firm believer in the power John Barnett Peter Macky & Yuri Opeshko but wonderful staff, led so capably If literacy, books and ideas are of books. Whether through the enjoy free access to many Festival events * Julienne Brown Dayle & Chris Mace by Festival Director, Anne O'Brien. important to you, please consider sharing of knowledge, new ideas or Margaret Casey & Ivan Connell The core team expands to over 90 sit in the front rows Sue & Julian Miles making a bequest or donation to The inspiration, books play an important Barbie & Paul Cook volunteers for the Festival week – we Antonia & Stella Milsom Auckland Readers & Writers Festival role in our lives and I am delighted to relax in the exclusive Patrons’ Lounge * Dale D’Rose are very grateful to them all. Matthew Patrick Charitable Trust. see the ongoing development of the Di & Graeme Edwards buy tickets at special prices * Antonia & Stephanie Post Finally, on behalf of the Board, I schools programme, particularly the Theresa Gattung John Priestley CONTACT US would like to express gratitude to assistance given to six South Auckland receive invitations to one-off events Deborah & Ross George Fran & Geoff Ricketts the writers appearing at the Festival, schools to travel and attend the festival. and private parties * Dame Jenny Gibbs To find out more about becoming Robyn & John Spooner and to our loyal sponsors, funders, Jo & Terry Gould a Patron, Friend or sponsor, or to Enjoy this celebration of the written benefit from a priority booking period supporters and audience. Pip Greenwood & David Gibson Anthea & Peter Springford discuss a bequest, visit our website and spoken word. use a dedicated booking line (no fees) Penny & Rod Hansen Cecilia Tarrant or please contact: Thank you and enjoy! Julyan Lawry Stephanie & Allan Tattersfield Tessa Yeoman, Phil Goff are acknowledged in the Festival Charlotte & Ian McLoughlin Peter Vial Marketing & Development Manager Pip Muir Mayor of Auckland programme. Sarah Mitchell & Richard Scoular Daisy & Garry Williams (09) 376 8074, ext. 3 *access varies dependent on membership level Pip Muir & Kit Toogood Anonymous (6) [email protected] 4 5 SCHOOLS PROGRAMME

Auckland Writers Festival is delighted to deliver our ninth Schools Programme with the generous support of the Freemasons Foundation. Through this programme we hope to inspire young writers and readers and celebrate the love of story with them.

In 2017 we continue the development of the programme. New initiatives include:

One full days programme for Year 5-6 students

Increased transport subsidy funds to assist with schools travel costs

An extension of the 2016 pilot programme, supported by donors Josephine & Ross Green, enabling three new schools to attend at no cost. (Edmund Hillary College, Otahuhu College and Manurewa High School) In addition, eight students from each sponsored school will embark on a creative writing mentoring programme delivered in partnership with The University of Auckland. (NB. Involvement is by invitation.)

OUR 2017 FEATURED WRITERS INCLUDE:

illustrator, writer and comic artist Donovan Bixley (NZ) ,blogger Alex Casey (NZ), author and illustrator Lauren Child (England), songwriter and musician Anna Coddington (NZ), poet and doctor Glenn Colquhoun (NZ), performer The Freemasons Foundation proudly supports and writer Ivan Coyote (Canada), creativity campaigner, writer and performer Stella Duffy (NZ/England), novelist, short story, script and resource writer the Auckland Writers Festival Mandy Hager (NZ), fantasy writer Frances Hardinge (England), spoken word poet Mohamed Hassan (Egypt/NZ), reviewer, playwright and children’s Schools Programme and Family Day. writer David Hill (NZ), fairy tale writer Renata Hopkins (NZ), page and script writer Witi Ihimaera (NZ), sci-fi and fantasy writerAmie Kaufman (Australia), writer and graphic designer Sarah Laing (NZ), memoirist and novelist Hisham Matar (Libya/England), novelist, short story writer, essayist and teacher Paula Morris (NZ), teenage realism writer Jennifer Niven (US), Shakespeare expert James Shapiro (US), children’s fiction writer and community worker Tim Tipene (NZ), adventure-sports themed novelist Aaron Topp (NZ) and animator and illustrator Zak Waipara (NZ).

Information on this year’s programme is available online writersfestival.co.nz. If you are interested in more details regarding our sponsorship programme or supporting www.freemasonsfoundation.org.nz future schools and students please contact the Festival office.

7 HOW TO LOVE STORY THE 2017 FOR LESS FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

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ANNE ENRIGHT ADAM DUDDING HERA LINDSAY BIRD CLARE DUNLEAVY ANTHONY BYRT HA JIN SUSAN FALUDI GLENN COLQUHOUN JAY RAYNER LAUREN CHILD DENIS JOHNSON STAN GRANT MICHAEL CORBALLIS JANE SKILTON TEJU COLE FIONA KIDMAN SARAH LAING CAROL ANN DUFFY NIC WATT PENELOPE JACKSON GEORGE SAUNDERS HISHAM MATAR ANDREW JOHNSTON CHRIS KRAUS APIRANA TAYLOR BILL MANHIRE PETER SIMPSON MADELEINE THIEN In addition, we present two special PUBLIC PROGRAMME events for our younger audience in PUBLIC BOOK the ASB Theatre: the fabulous creator WHAT’S SATURDAY 29 APRIL (SPECIAL EVENT), of Charlie & Lola, Ruby Redfort and LAUNCHES SATURDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY MAY 16 – SUNDAY MAY 21 Clarice Bean, Lauren Child, 9-10am ON AOTEA CENTRE & SQUARE, AUCKLAND on Saturday; and Harry Potter 29 APRIL 16 MAY TOWN HALL, AUCKLAND ART GALLERY, HIGH Hijinks with Professor Frankie STREET, MASU RESTAURANT, HAURAKI GULF leading spells duels, quidditch demos, trivia questions and prizes on Sunday The Festival inspires the city of 9-10am. Everyone’s encouraged to Auckland and surrounding waters dress up for an hour of spellbinding with six May days of stories, ideas fun. Both sessions free but ticketed and provocations. From across the for 12 and under; student and adult world, writers congregate to wow. It’s prices apply. Tickets available from TUESDAY MAY 16 – 5.00-6.30 PM SCHOOLS a multi-format festival of discussion Ticketmaster. THE EMMA PRESS – LEANNE RADOJKOVICH and performance with something MOJO BLEDISLOE HOUSE, 01 02 PROGRAMME 24 WELLESLEY STREET WEST SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL EVENT for everyone, including new sessions Book early to avoid disappointed children. TUESDAY MAY 16, WEDNESDAY MAY 17 & and musical offerings in our Aotea THURSDAY MAY 18 Square pop-up venue, the Heartland The Emma Press warmly invites AN EVENING WITH JANE EYRE: 9.45-2.45PM, AOTEA CENTRE Festival Room; a 90-minute literary readers to the launch of First fox, a short escapade into the environs of High story collection by Auckland writer ARMANDO IANNUCCI AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Street; a tour of the Hauraki Gulf; Pop Leanne Radojkovich. All welcome. Three days of sessions for 9 to 18-year- POP POETRY: Poetry text projections each evening old students start the Festival with a in the square; and much more. For full LOVE LETTERS IN THE flourish, and with students hearing programme see pages 13-45. from four writers in any given SQUARE day: Tuesday May 16 for primary and intermediate; Wednesday and TUESDAY MAY 16 – SUNDAY MAY 21 – Thursday May 17 & 18 for secondary. 6.00-9.00PM, AOTEA SQUARE, AUCKLAND Transport subsidies are available to FAMILY DAY help schools attend, and all students Festival week sees a corner of Aotea SATURDAY APRIL 29 – 7.00-8.15PM TUESDAY MAY 16 – 2.00-3.25PM WEDNESDAY MAY 17 – 6.00-7.30PM receive a free book. This year the PROGRAMME Square come alive each night with GREAT HALL, AUCKLAND TOWN HALL HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Festival sponsors an additional three text projections. Every evening a ANAHERA PRESS – API TAYLOR schools, which attend at no cost and SUNDAY MAY 21 combination of curated and live AUCKLAND CENTRAL CITY LIBRARY, The Emmy-winning Veep, the Bafta- Performer Rebecca Vaughan (Austen’s take part in a follow-up tutoring HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE writing will emanate from the LORNE STREET winning The Thick of It, and Little Women, Dalloway) returns to the Festival programme. The accomplished & HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE mysterious Pop Poetry hut, inspired Englander Alan Partridge are just for a five-star, solo retelling of Charlotte line-up of writers includes: Lauren by the theme ‘Love Letters’. Anahera Press warmly invites you to some of the satirical creations of Bronte’s gothic subversion of fairy-tale , and Family Fun is the order of the day as join them in celebrating the launch of Child Stella Duffy Frances A sparkling collection of intrepid the writer, producer and director romance, Jane Eyre, under its original title. Hardinge (UK); Jennifer Niven we present sessions in the Heartland Apirana Taylor’s new novel, Five Strings. writers join the fun, with one a night Armando Iannucci. The sharp Experience the novel that shocked the Festival Room in the Square and All welcome. and James Shapiro (US); Hisham writing live but anonymously and Glaswegian greatly admires Charles Victorians and revolutionised the art of Matar (Libya/UK); Amie Kaufman in the Herald Theatre, offer and activities round and about, all only revealing themselves as they Dickens, Woody Allen and the Pope, fiction. (Australia); and Ivan Coyote sign off... expect poems, letters, lyrics but not former UK prime minister, (Canada); and New Zealanders designed to celebrate with our under 10 story lovers. and other treats. the “bum-faced southern ponce” Earlybird $35; Standard $40; Donovan Bixley, Alex Casey, Anna David Cameron. His current projects Patrons $32; Students $20 Pop is an annual series of public art Coddington, Glenn Colquhoun, There’ll be readings, performances, include a movie about Stalin’s last NB: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography is projects made for and by Aucklanders, Mandy Hager, Mohamed Hassan, storytelling – including in Te Reo, days. Iannucci talks with Toby performed five times during Festival supported by Auckland Council and David Hill, Renata Hopkins, Witi some bug pictures, a Harry Potter Manhire about his work, and whether week: Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 at the Waitemata- Local Board. Its mission Ihimaera, Sarah Laing, Paula mural to colour in and more, with the new world order is putting 2pm; Friday 19 at 10.30am; and is to create unexpected experiences in Morris, Tim Tipene, Aaron Topp presenters including Tanya Batt, satirists out of a job. Supported by South Saturday 20 at 10.30am & 2.30pm. Auckland’s neighbourhoods; creating FRIDAY MAY 19 – 3.30-5.00PM and Zak Waipara. Supported by Lauren Child, Sacha Cotter Pacific Pictures. surprise, making fun and forming AUP SHOWCASE AND IAN WEDDE Freemasons Foundation. Josh Morgan, Carol Ann Duffy, communities. Pop Poetry is in its second BOOK LAUNCH AIR NEW ZEALAND FOYER, Toby Morris, Simon Pollard, John Earlybird $35; Standard $40; Patrons Ensure your school has registered year of activating urban sites around the LEVEL 5, AOTEA CENTRE Sampson and Api Taylor. $32; Students $20. with the Festival to receive our city though large-format, typographic annual programme, released in Sessions are free but ticketed and projections by night. Pop Poetry is Auckland University Press invites you to February. Further information is booked through Ticketmaster. For designed by Alt Group. attend the launch of Ian Wedde’s Selected available at www.writersfestival. full programme see pages 41-42 Poems – a magnificent collection from one co.nz/2017-schools-programme. Supported by Freemasons Foundation. of New Zealand’s most well-known poets – and to meet our authors speaking at the Festival. Refreshments will be served and 12 books available for signing. 13 03 Sailing is contingent on sufficient 06 07 president, leaving many dumbstruck GENERAL EVENT bookings, and weather conditions on the FREE EVENT SPECIAL EVENT and locked in an us-and-them day – in light of cancellation full refunds tussle across politics, economics, WEDNESDAY will be given. Bring your own food, buy race, gender and geographies. Join OCKHAM NEW light refreshments or beverages on board, POUTOKOMANAWA – BLOODY Pulitzer-Prizewinning journalist 17 MAY or add $10 to your ticket price for an Eat Susan Faludi (Backlash and Stiffed), ZEALAND BOOK My Lunch pack, with a lunch also being THE HEARTPOST MARY COUGHLAN Australian journalist Stan Grant donated to a local school. (Talking To My Country), UK writer AWARDS 2017 John Lanchester (Capital), and Paula Morris (On Coming Home) as they discuss yawning divides and 05 propose possible bridges. Convened SPECIAL EVENT by Andrew Johnston. 04 Earlybird $35; Standard $40; SPECIAL EVENT JANE EYRE: Patrons $32; Students $20. CHARTER BOAT DAY TRIP THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND WEDNESDAY MAY 17 – 7.00-8.00PM AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY FREE PUBLIC LECTURE: TINA MAKERETI HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE TUESDAY MAY 16 – 7.00-8.30PM WEDNESDAY MAY 17 – 5PM-5.45PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE TAKE TO THE GULF: HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE Irish jazz and blues singing royalty 09 Mary Coughlan performs a set FREE EVENT An auspicious all-welcome gathering RAEWYN PEART Ma-ori and Pasifika writers cross with customary heart, referencing to honour the best New Zealand fiction, borders with a vibrant aesthetic that her best-selling, straight-shooting non-fiction, illustrated non-fiction, and exists nowhere else on the planet. autobiography Bloody Mary. (“The CHRIS & TOM WRITE poetry published in 2016. All 16 finalists, Yet they are under-represented in family”, she has said, “can be the most and the four Best First Book Award literature—research suggests that destructive of units.”) Accompanied A BOOK winners, read from their work before the Ma-ori and Pasifika poetry and fiction by Irish guitar legend Jimmy Smyth, grand winners are announced in this WEDNESDAY MAY 17 – 2.00-3.25PM accounts for only 3% of all locally and bass player Richie Pickard, a lively celebration of our literary mother HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE published literature. Other ethnic performance not to be missed. lode. MC-ed by author and comedian groups fare worse. In this lecture Michele A’Court. WEDNESDAY MAY 17 – 9AM-2.30PM Performer Rebecca Vaughan novelist, essayist and creative writing Also presented May 18 at 5.30pm and HAURAKI GULF (Austen’s Women, Dalloway) returns teacher Tina Makereti assesses the May 19 at 7.30pm. General $15; Patrons and Students to the Festival for a five-star, solo grim state of affairs and presents her Earlybird $35; Standard $40; $12.50. Note: This session may be selected retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic vision of a vibrant Ma-ori/Pasifika/ Patrons $32; Students $20. The 4000km2 Hauraki Gulf/Tikapa as part of a concession pass. subversion of fairy-tale romance, Indigenous/NZ literature: What Moana is a precious but vulnerable Jane Eyre, under its original title. kind of house does our literature part of the country, sometimes Experience the novel that shocked the inhabit? Where are radical FINALISTS – difficult for landlubbers to access. Victorians and revolutionised the art renovations needed? 08 FOR FULL DETAILS SEE PGS 59-66 Not any more! Join author of The of fiction. SPECIAL EVENT Story of the Hauraki Gulf Raewyn Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize: Free entry. Peart, and strike out for Rangitoto, Catherine Chidgey; Owen Marshall; Earlybird $35; Standard $40; Patrons Motutapu, Motuihe and the Noises Emma Neale; C.K. Stead. $32; Students $20 THE GREAT DIVIDE WEDNESDAY MAY 17 – 9.30-10.30PM before cruising past Waiheke down to Poetry Award: Tusiata Avia; Hera NB: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography is HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE Rotoroa Island, where you can alight Lindsay Bird; Andrew Johnston; performed five times during Festival for a stroll. On the homeward voyage Gregory Kan. week: Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 at Long-time writing collaborators the boat motors up Tamaki Strait Royal Society Te Apara-ngi Award 2pm; Friday 19 at 10.30am; and across the screen, stage and web Chris before arriving back in the city. for General Non-Fiction: Anthony Saturday 20 at 10.30am & 2.30pm. Parker and Tom Sainsbury (Stake Byrt; Adam Dudding; Ben Schrader; Out, Bachelor Pad, Camping, Funny Girls, Patrons $100; General $115. Includes Ashleigh Young. Super City and Jono and Ben) want to try $5 donation per person to Rotoroa Illustrated Non-Fiction Award: their hand at writing a book. Festival Restoration Programme. Supported by Barbara Brookes; Warren Moran; Clare guests Jay Rayner, Sarah-Kate Lynch Auckland Whale and Dolphin Safari. THE UNIVERSITY OF McIntosh and Zara Stanhope (Editors); and Brit Bennett settle back on the Limited to 100 passengers. Embarkation AUCKLAND FESTIVAL FORUM Peter Simpson. couch and give their wannabe hosts a point for strict 9am departure: entrance to WEDNESDAY MAY 17 – 8.00-9.30PM steer – the conducive writing habits, the Maritime Museum in the Viaduct. ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE the likely sources of inspiration, and the cautionary tales. A year of surprises, 2016 saw Britons vote to leave the European Union and Americans elect Donald Trump as Cash bar. Venue open for entry from 8pm. 14 15 11 with customary heart, referencing 14 16 GENERAL EVENT her best-selling, straight-shooting FREE EVENT FREE EVENT autobiography Bloody Mary. (“The THURSDAY family”, she has said, “can be the most FRIDAY TICK TOCK: destructive of units.”) Accompanied CHRIS & TOM WRITE A PERSONAL TAKE: 18 MAY by Irish guitar legend Jimmy Smyth, 19 MAY LAWRENCE KRAUSS and bass player Richie Pickard, a A BOOK DUDDING & LAING performance not to be missed.

Also presented May 17 at 7pm and May 19 at 7.30pm. Earlybird $35; Standard $40; Patrons $32; Students $20. 10 13 15 SPECIAL EVENT GENERAL EVENT THURSDAY MAY 18 – 5.00-6.00PM SPECIAL EVENT LUNCH WITH ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE PORTHOLES TO THE In January this year the Chicago- FESTIVAL GALA NIGHT JAY RAYNER based Bulletin of the Atomic PAST: LLOYD GEERING Scientists, creators of the Doomsday TRUE STORIES TOLD Clock, assessed the world to be 30 THURSDAY MAY 18 – 9.00-10.00PM LIVE: THE HEART OF FRIDAY MAY 19 – 10.00-11.00AM seconds closer to annihilation due HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE to threats posed by climate change LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE and nuclear weapons, as well as THE MATTER Long-time writing collaborators strident nationalism, fake news, and Two recent New Zealand works across the screen, stage and web an intemperate Donald Trump. Chair entwine the personal with the Chris Parker and Tom Sainsbury of the Bulletin’s science and security literary: Sarah Laing’s 2017 Ockham (Stake Out, Bachelor Pad, Camping, board, theoretical physicist and New Zealand Book Awards longlisted Funny Girls, Super City and Jono and THURSDAY MAY 18 – 12.00-2.15PM author of The Greatest Story Ever Told FRIDAY MAY 19 – 10.00-11.00AM graphic memoir Mansfield and Me Ben) want to try their hand at writing MASU RESTAURANT – So Far Lawrence Krauss returns ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE plots her literary journey alongside a book. Festival guests James Gleick, 90 FEDERAL STREET, AUCKLAND to the Festival to talk climate change that of our starry export Katherine Karyn Hay and Madeleine Thien and offer advice on how to stay the At 99 years of age, theologian Lloyd Mansfield; and the shortlisted settle back on the couch and give Observer restaurant critic, journalist, apocalypse. Supported by Platinum Geering has lived a full and engaged Adam Dudding’s My Father’s Island their wannabe hosts a steer—the and jazz pianist Jay Rayner’s books Patrons Carol & Gerard Curry. life which has shaped beliefs that circumnavigates his father, the late conducive writing habits, the likely include The Ten (Food) Commandments, range across life after death, the great literary editor Robin Dudding. sources of inspiration, and the A Greedy Man in a Hungry World, fallibility of The Bible, the divinity of Laing and Dudding speak with Geoff cautionary tales. and My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways To Jesus, the evils of fundamentalism Walker about memoir writing, and Have a Lousy Night Out. Over sushi 12 and the ethical requirement to care inescapable literary forces. Cash bar. Venue open for entry from and sashimi at Masu restaurant, the SPECIAL EVENT for the planet. From his early days 6.30pm. snappy Rayner shares his culinary THURSDAY MAY 18 – 7.00-8.30PM in Rangiora to a ministry in the highs and lows. Introduced by chef ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Presbyterian Church, a controversial Nic Watt. Diners enjoy a two-course BLOODY heresy trial, and a distinguished meal and complimentary glass teaching career, Geering is supremely The Festival gala once again showcases of wine. Early booking essential. MARY COUGHLAN situated to assess our spiritual and the story-telling chops of eight writers Supported by Te Kairanga Wines, temporal progress over the last who deliver a seven-minute true story, SKYCITY and Platinum Patrons Adrian century. Celebrate the life journey propless and scriptless, inspired by Burr and Peter Tatham. of this profound thinker and his the theme “The Heart of the Matter”. new book Portholes to the Past, in Flexing their muscles are: Gina Cole Standard $120; Patrons $100. conversation with John Campbell. (NZ); Glenn Colquhoun (NZ); Ivan Coyote (Canada), Anne Enright (Ireland); Lloyd Geering (NZ); Ha Jin (China); Ian Rankin (Scotland); and THURSDAY MAY 18 – 5.30-6.30PM Mpho Tutu van Furth (South Africa). HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE Supported by New Zealand Listener.

Irish jazz and blues singing royalty Earlybird $35; Standard $40; Mary Coughlan performs a set Patrons $32; Students $20. 16 17 17 retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic 20 from Tolstoy, Jesus and Hitler to 23 Britain, Germany and Russia were FREE EVENT subversion of fairy-tale romance, GENERAL EVENT Captain Cook, as seen through the GENERAL EVENT ruled by three cousins: George V; Jane Eyre, under its original title. eyes of George Forster, the Polish- Wilhelm II; and Nicholas II. They Experience the novel that shocked the born German botanist who sailed presided over the last years of VANISHING VOICES: Victorians and revolutionised the art TALKING TO MY with Cook on his 1772-75 expedition KNOWN AND STRANGE dynastic Europe and the outbreak of fiction. to the South Seas, and who may not of one of the deadliest conflicts in RUSS RYMER COUNTRY: STAN GRANT have had the voyage of a life time. In THINGS: TEJU COLE history. Miranda Carter, author of Earlybird $35; Standard $40; his historical novel Resolution Wilson The Three Emperors, scrutinises the Patrons $32; Students $20 writes that while the crew “gamboled trio and their times. Supported by NB: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography is with the island beauties, George had Heartland Bank. performed five times during Festival sat with his thick woollen stockings, week: Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 at buckled shoes, cotton shirt, worsted 2pm; Friday 19 at 10.30am; and Saturday vest and coat, drawing the Tahitian 20 at 10.30am & 2.30pm. flora”. Wilson expands on the tale of 25 hardship and discovery. Supported by GENERAL EVENT Platinum Patrons Mary Biggs & FRIDAY MAY 19 – 10.00-11.00AM FRIDAY MAY 19 – 11.30-12.30PM Peter Biggs CNZM. FRIDAY MAY 19 – 1.00-2.00PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 19 LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE MASTER OF MYSTERY: GENERAL EVENT Author, freelance journalist and Stan Grant wrote Talking to My Praised as a ‘sublime’ writer by The PAUL CLEAVE former Guggenheim Fellow Russ Country in the wake of fans’ abuse of 22 Guardian, the Nigerian-American Rymer has won an Overseas Press GATHERINGS: Aboriginal Sydney Swans’ footballer FREE EVENT writer, art historian, photographer Club of America Award for his Adam Goodes in 2015. His book is and champion of the artistic merits of National Geographic investigation ANNE ENRIGHT a personal and powerful response Twitter, Teju Cole, has wide-ranging of the death of tribal languages to racism in Australia from one O CANADA pre-occupations. His novel Open City “Vanishing Voices”. In this Festival of its most successful journalists, explores spatial relations, immigrant address he calibrates what is lost and Wiradjuri tribesman. With experience and Manhattan bird life, when language of any kind goes a direct gaze Grant examines the and has attracted comparisons to silent. He draws on his experiences “deep wound” that he attributes to the work of W.G. Sebald. His essay FRIDAY MAY 19 – 1.00-2.00PM with communities including the Aka dispossession, manifest in Indigenous collection Known and Strange Things, HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE in India, the Tuvan in Siberia and Australians’ low life expectancy, takes in subjects from Shakespeare, the Comqaac in Mexico, but also on and high levels of incarceration and Virginia Woolf and V.S. Naipaul to In 2006 The Cleaner spectacularly his observations of the languages of suicide. Grant challenges his country Barack Obama, Boko Harum and launched the career of Christchurch journalism and literature, and the FRIDAY MAY 19 – 11.30-12.30PM to do better, and all of us to address Instagram. Cole talks with Kevin FRIDAY MAY 19 – 11.30-12.30PM crime writer Paul Cleave. Another institutions associated with them. ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE our prejudices. In conversation with Rabalais. Supported by Platinum Patrons UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE eight thrillers—also set in Cleave’s Carol Hirschfeld. Dame Rosie & Michael Horton. hometown—have followed, Ireland’s Fiction Laureate Anne Canada has recently become highly translated into 17 languages. Enright writes unsentimentally on attractive to some of its southern Cleave’s latest, Trust No One, about 18 the family unit, and the tidal pull it neighbours with, among other a crime writer diagnosed with SPECIAL EVENT exerts. Her latest book The Green Road 21 24 things, a prime minister – Justin Alzheimer’s, has been described as is an exploration of a clan reunion, GENERAL EVENT GENERAL EVENT Trudeau – who identifies as a feminist “leaping with such fiendish elan during which the complicated and an internationalist. Canadian between past and present tense JANE EYRE: matriarch takes to her bed –the writers Ivan Coyote, Rupi Kaur and first-person, second-person, “horizontal solution” comments her RESOLUTION: THREE EMPIRES: and Madeleine Thien explore other and third-person narration that AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY son. Enright, writes James Wood in defining characteristics of their you may wonder if you’ve killed The New Yorker, is an unusual talent: A. N. WILSON MIRANDA CARTER homeland, and its literature with someone yourself” (Kirkus Reviews). In “She is a rich lyrical prose writer, who David Bigio. Supported by International conversation with Wallace Chapman. cascades among novelties – again Festival of Authors & The Canada Council and again, she finds the unexpected for the Arts. adjective, the just noun… But she is at the same time a brisk and satirical aphorist, who often conceals more than she displays.” Enright talks TUESDAY MAY 19 –10.30-11.55AM to Join Kate De Goldi. Supported by HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Culture Ireland. FRIDAY MAY 19 – 11.30-12.30PM FRIDAY MAY 19 – 1.00-2.00PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Performer Rebecca Vaughan (Austen’s Women, Dalloway) returns The great British biographer A.N. In the years before the First World to the Festival for a five-star, solo Wilson has turned his attention War, the great European powers 18 19 26 the Bardo), Emma Neale (Billy Bird) 29 In the last photographic project 32 New Zealand Project, he argues that FREE EVENT and Jenny Powell (The Case of the GENERAL EVENT before her death, the renowned FREE EVENT academics and intellectuals have failed Missing Body), for readings on matters photographer Marti Friedlander FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION to deepen the political discourse, that unusual. Introduced by Rachael King. combined with sommelier and writer politics is dominated by pragmatism, HELOISE: INTO THE LIGHT Clare Dunleavy to document the and that technocratic policies have people behind the labels in the book PACIFIC TALES replaced value-based ones. In this MANDY HAGER Waiheke Island – A World of Wine. year’s Michael King Memorial 28 Dunleavy speaks with Wine Master Lecture, Harris calls for a strategic GENERAL EVENT Jane Skilton. intervention – inspired by the tenets of care, community and creativity in an Aotearoa New Zealand context, THE SELLOUT: and driven by the imagination and 31 impatience of the young to create a PAUL BEATTY FREE EVENT better country. FRIDAY MAY 19 – 2.30-3.30PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE FRIDAY MAY 19 – 2.30-3.20PM FRIDAY MAY 19 – 1.00-2.00PM BEHIND THE SCENES LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Fiction can be a powerful tool of 34 illumination, but one that needs AT LANDFALL The mighty Pacific ocean links the GENERAL EVENT The 12th-century scholar and careful handling. Novelists continents of Asia, the Americas and nun Heloise d’Argeneuil and the Catherine Chidgey (The Wish Child), Australasia and harbours a multitude philosopher and monk Pierre Hisham Matar (The Return) and of islands. American novelist Brit THE BOAT ROCKER: Abelard are – thanks to their letter- FRIDAY MAY 19 – 2.30-3.30PM Steve Sem-Sandberg (The Emperor of Bennett (The Mothers), Pasifika short HA JIN writing prowess – one of history’s ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Lies and The Chosen Ones) have crafted story writers Gina Cole (Black Ice most celebrated couples. Mandy remarkable novels from some of the Matter) and Courtney Sina Meredith Hager used her 2014 Menton dark recesses of 20th-century history. (Tail of the Taniwha) and non-fiction In Paul Beatty’s Man Booker Prize- Fellowship to write the novel Heloise, What is it about the fictional form writer Scott Hamilton (The Stolen winning novel, The Sellout, the hero imagining what happens when that allows readers to bear witness Island) whose work unpicks Tongan – a grower of artisanal marijuana FRIDAY MAY 19 – 2.30-3.30PM the enthusiastic lovers encounter to the unimaginable, and how does a history, deliver 10-minute readings. and water melons – attempts to UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE religious reform and zealotry. novelist avoid repelling readers when Introduced by Owen Scott. reintroduce slavery and segregation She presents a talk on her singular dealing with the horrific? They speak in his LA neighbourhood. Beatty’s To mark the 70th birthday of Landfall, protagonist – who declared love with Stephanie Johnson. savage satire, reflecting as is does New Zealand’s longest-running arts preferable to wedlock – and the the hypocrisies of contemporary and literary journal, current editor FRIDAY MAY 19 – 4.00-5.00PM challenges of fictionalising her story. 33 LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE America, often reads like reportage. David Eggleton, past editors Chris GENERAL EVENT Join one of America’s most exuberant 30 Price and Iain Sharp, and literary and tuned-in voices, poet, editor GENERAL EVENT historian Peter Simpson gather to Ha Jin is the author of National Book 27 and author of three previous novels lift the lid on some of the country’s A NEW POLITICS Award for Fiction winner Waiting and FREE EVENT in a discussion with Paula Morris. key literary quarrels and where most recently of the darkly-comic The FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION Supported by the Embassy of the United ISLAND VINES: the bodies are buried. Expect lively FOR NZ Boat Rocker – an examination of the States of America. chatter as the group canvases the moral dimensions of journalism via CLARE DUNLEAVY controversies, the rejections, the the tale of a Chinese expat working STRANGE HAPPENINGS spats, the bad behaviour, the sackings, in New York who suspects the hype and other momentous occasions in surrounding a Chinese bodice- the publication’s history. ripper. Jin, who left China for good in 1985, writes from a position of both freedom and exile. The Boat Rocker however, notes The New York Times, “is no polemic masquerading as FRIDAY MAY 19 – 4.00-5.00PM a novel”. Jin speaks with Michael ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Williams. Supported by Asia New FRIDAY MAY 19 – 2.30-3.30PM Zealand Foundation. FRIDAY MAY 19 – 1.00-1.50PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE New Zealander Max Harris is on the LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE ascendant: a Rhodes Scholar who, Waiheke Island’s evolution as an while studying public policy and law Between death and life, the body and international wine-drinking mecca at Oxford University earned an All the spirit, strange things are afoot. began in the 1950s, its ongoing story Souls Fellowship and returns home for Join Viola Di Grado (The Hollow as much about the characters who the Festival to advocate a new politics. Heart), George Saunders (Lincoln in work the land as the terroir itself. In his recently published book The

20 21 35 writing. Hera Lindsay Bird, Anne 38 40 with Jay Kristoff and optioned by 43 GENERAL EVENT Kennedy, Kelly Ana Morey, Toby GENERAL EVENT GENERAL EVENT Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, FREE EVENT Morris, and Ngahuia te Awekotuku the storytelling is dynamic and present their resulting takes on our incorporates transcripts, interviews GONEVILLE: archival past. In partnership with The WOMEN AND POWER THE STATE WE’RE IN: and graphics. Kaufman is also the WALK ON HIGH Auckland War Memorial Museum co-author of The Starbound Trilogy, NICK BOLLINGER Ta-maki Paenga Hira. OCKHAM AWARD and the much-anticipated Unearthed. She speaks to Phillip Simpson about WINNERS’ SESSION multi-layered storytelling, and 37 transportation to other universes. FREE EVENT FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION 42 FRIDAY MAY 19 – 5.30-6.30PM SPECIAL EVENT FRIDAY MAY 19 – 6.30-8.00PM TAKING REFUGE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE HIGH STREET, AUCKLAND – FRIDAY MAY 19 – 4.00-5.00PM VARIOUS VENUES HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE For many women 2016 registered as an CAROL ANN DUFFY annus horribilis, one which made it FRIDAY MAY 19 – 5.30-6.30PM Walk on High is an intimate Music reflects the times and how. clear that the battle for sexual equality HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE WITH JOHN SAMPSON meandering journey, featuring a 1970s’ NZ, when real men played – in political and sporting circles sampler of Festival talent on a word rugby not rock, is the subject of Nick notably – is anything but won. Writers Hear the four newly minted category trail along High Street in the CBD. Bollinger’s 2017 Ockham New and advocates Michele A’Court, winners of the 2017 Ockham New From 6.30pm to 8pm choose from Zealand Book Awards longlisted Roxane Gay and Mpho Tutu van Zealand Book Awards discuss the four fifteen-minute events, repeated memoir Goneville. The writer, FRIDAY MAY 19 – 4.00-4.50PM Furth suggest courses of required state of our nation and whether it four times across the ninety minutes, broadcaster and musician is in LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE action. Susie Ferguson in the chair. is the role and duty of a writer to be individually crafted and each as conversation with Karyn Hay. its conscience and critic. Chaired by delectable as the next. Formats take Frances Walsh. in games, Insta-essays, music, spoken In times of turmoil the weary seek word and theatre. Over 20 writers and refuge. Novelists Caroline Brothers FRIDAY MAY 19 – 6.00-7.00PM 39 NB: The award ceremony on Tuesday 16 performers take part, including: Jess (The Memory Stones) and Jenni Ogden LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 36 GENERAL EVENT May is open to the public and is eligible for Holly Bates, Anthony Byrt, Teju (A Drop in the Ocean) join 2017 Ockham FREE EVENT concession pass selection – see Event 03, Cole, Glenn Colquhoun, Jonothan New Zealand Books Awards shortlisted A regular highlight of the Edinburgh page 14 for details. Cullinane, Mei-Lin Hansen, Ali poet Andrew Johnston (Fits and Fringe programme, much-loved ON CHARLES: Ikram, Simone Kaho, Sarah Laing, Starts) and longlisted flash fiction British Poet Laureate Carol Ann WRITING THE PAST: Last Tapes Theatre Company, writer Frankie McMillan (My Mother Duffy collaborates with Scottish LUCINDA HAWKSLEY Michelle Leggott, Lana Lopesi, and the Hungarians) in readings about musician and actor John Sampson A MUSEUM 41 Selina Tusitala Marsh, Doug Poole, the search for safe harbour. Introduced in an interplay of words and music, FREE EVENT Randa, Rosabel Tan, Apirana by Christine O’Brien played on historic and modern COLLABORATION Charles Dickens Taylor, Tourettes, Steven Toussaint, and his Circle instruments, which may include the Lucinda Ian Wedde, Rewa Worley and Sonja Hawksley crumhorn – a horn with a hint of ILLUMINAE: Yelich. A full schedule and event kazoo. Supported by British Council NZ. descriptions will be posted to our AMIE KAUFMAN website early April so check it out and Cash Bar. Earlybird $35; Standard $40; start planning your Walk on High: Patrons $32; Students $20. FRIDAY MAY 19 – 5.30-6.30PM writersfestival.co.nz/walk-on-high LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Supported by Auckland Council and Heart of the City. The Victorian Charles Dickens was a FREE. distinctly modern celebrity. His novels enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and he lectured and performed extensively. He also FRIDAY MAY 19 – 5.30-6.30PM ran with an influential crew of writers, UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE FRIDAY MAY 19 – 4.00-5.00PM artists and social reformers. In Charles UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Dickens and his Circle, the colossus’s great- New York Times top-selling YA science great-great granddaughter Lucinda fiction writerAmie Kaufman Five writers recently went exploring at Hawksley investigates the life of her is renowned for multi-textual the Auckland War Memorial Museum, ancestor and those in his orbit. She collaborations that take readers each seeking inspiration for a piece of presents an illustrated portrait. off-piste. In Illuminae, created 22 23 44 45 restaurant critic, and Masterchef judge 49 Awards, Anthony Byrt delivers a first- SPECIAL EVENT SPECIAL EVENT Jay Rayner in an audio-visual trek FREE EVENT person account of encounters with NZ to the edible promised land. Rayner’s artists and their work, on and off their live show, based on his book The Ten SATURDAY home turf. He presents a talk on our AN EVENING WITH BLOODY (Food) Commandments, combines TRUTH OR DARE key artists and fundamental issues. reportage and anecdotes with recipes. 20 MAY Supported by Auckland Art Gallery IAN RANKIN MARY COUGHLAN Author of A Greedy Man in a Hungry Toi o Ta-maki . World, Rayner has been voted the most influential food and drink journalist in Britain, and holds a Beard of the Year Award. Supported 51 by Platinum Patrons Adrian Burr and GENERAL EVENT Peter Tatham.

Earlybird $35; Standard $40; SATURDAY MAY 20 – 9.00-10.00AM THE BOOK OF Patrons $32; Students $20. 48 HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE FRIDAY MAY 19 – 7.00-8.15PM FRIDAY MAY 19 – 7.30-8.30PM SPECIAL EVENT FORGIVING: MPHO ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE As New Zealand gears up for its own election year, and in the wake of TUTU VAN FURTH CHARLIE & LOLA & continuing conversations about the It’s thirty years since the hard-boiled Irish jazz and blues singing royalty 47 social media age, alternative facts, fake Inspector Rebus was given his first Mary Coughlan performs a set FREE EVENT CLARICE & RUBY: news and a post-truth world, Weekend airing in Knots & Crosses by Ian with customary heart, referencing Herald editor Miryiana Alexander, Rankin; twenty-one instalments her best-selling, straight-shooting LAUREN CHILD freelance journalist Chris Barton, and later Rebus is still on the case, autobiography Bloody Mary. (“The STELLA AND GUESTS AUT Programme Leader of the Graduate still living in Edinburgh, but is family”, she has said, “can be the most Diploma in Pacific Journalism Richard seemingly off the fags. Rankin’s work destructive of units.”) Accompanied Pamatatau, line-up to champion encompasses not only Tartan Noir, by Irish guitar legend Jimmy Smyth, journalism, lay out their positions on but short stories, a graphic novel and bass player Richie Pickard, a truth, opinion and things in between, SATURDAY MAY 20 – 10.30-11.30AM and a play. He is the recipient of four performance not to be missed. and convince us we should trust them... ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Crime Writers’ Association Dagger or not. Chaired by Gavin Ellis. Awards, the Grand Prix du Roman Also presented May 17 at 7pm and The singer Annie Lennox praised The Noir (France), and the Deutscher May 18 at 5.30pm. Book of Forgiving for its “groundbreaking SATURDAY MAY 20 – 9.00-10.00AM Including a complimentary copy of Krimi Prize (Germany). He is in Earlybird $35; Standard $40; FRIDAY MAY 19 – 9.30-10.30PM insights as to how we resolve our lifelong ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE The New Zealand Herald. conversation with Mark Sainsbury. Patrons $32; Students $20. HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE burdens”. Mpho Tutu van Furth who Supported by Craigs Investment Partners. co-authored the book with her father, The Sunday Times describes child Archbishop Desmond Tutu, is no stranger The irrepressible Stella Duffy, Earlybird $35; Standard $40; sleuth Ruby Redfort as “one of the best 50 to heavy loads: her father was a leading formerly of Tokoroa, is now a writer, Patrons $32; Students $20. 46 things to happen to British fiction”. GENERAL EVENT opponent of apartheid in South Africa, SPECIAL EVENT theatre-maker and arts entrepreneur The creation of writer and illustrator WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES and she herself was forced to relinquish in London. She hosts her own salon Lauren Child the Ruby Redfort the Anglican priesthood over her as she’s joined on the couch by series is a spin off from the tales of same-sex marriage. Tutu van Furth has THE TEN (FOOD) Festival writers and surprise guests the sassy, utterly original Clarice NZ CONTEMPORARY also co-authored a biography of her father, – including Paul Beatty, Deborah Bean. Child’s other series, featuring Tutu, and the book Made for Goodness: And COMMANDMENTS Challinor and Douglas Lloyd redoubtable siblings Charlie and Lola, ART: ANTHONY BYRT Why This Makes All the Difference. She Jenkins – for frank conversation is now a television show. How does discusses her life and the place of about books and the big wide world Child manage her fictional ensemble, forgiveness with Marianne Elliott. they inhabit. and what’s in store for them next? Supported by Platinum Patrons Frances Supported by Barfoot & Thompson. & Bill Bell. Free entry, cash bar. Venue open for entry from 8.30pm Free for 12 and unders. Standard $20; Student $10. FRIDAY MAY 19 – 8.45- 10.00PM SATURDAY MAY 20 – 10.15-11.15AM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Is it ever OK to covet a neighbour’s In This Model World: Travels To The Edge oxen, eat with your hands, or excise of Contemporary Art, shortlisted for the fat? Be guided by The Observer’s the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book

24 25 52 argue that language evolved much Earlybird $35; Standard $40; of the Environmental Defence Society 59 61 GENERAL EVENT earlier than generally assumed. He Patrons $32; Students $20 and author of The Story of the Hauraki GENERAL EVENT FREE EVENT puts his case to Siouxsie Wiles. NB: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography is Gulf Raewyn Peart chronicles the performed five times during Festival story of the gulf—from its discovery VIVA ITALIA: week: Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 at by Polynesian navigators to recent A BOOK FOR THE THE LIE TREE: 54 2pm; Friday 19 at 10.30am; and Saturday efforts to repair the damage done by VIOLA DI GRADO FREE EVENT 20 at 10.30am & 2.30pm. centuries of settlement. Supported by PEOPLE FRANCES HARDINGE Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta-maki. THE ART OF ESSAY 56 FREE EVENT 58 GENERAL EVENT SPEAKERS’ CORNER: IN THE BARDO: SATURDAY MAY 20 – 10.30-11.30AM EXAMS TO BE DAMNED SATURDAY MAY 20 – 12.00-1.00PM SATURDAY MAY 20 – 12.00-1.00PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE GEORGE SAUNDERS LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE UPPER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE Viola Di Grado shot onto Italy’s SATURDAY MAY 20 – 10.30-11.30AM Lloyd Geering and A.N. Wilson both The Lie Tree is a rarity – a children’s literary scene with her novel 70% UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE know The Bible inside out. Geering book that won the Costa Book Acrylic 30% Wool, taking out the is widely recognised as one of this of the Year. Frances Hardinge 2011 Campiello First Novel Award. At its best the essay form can country’s leading biblical scholars, and positions her seventh novel as “a Her subsequent novel, PEN Literary decipher personal, political and Wilson wrote The Book of the People: How Victorian Gothic mystery with Awards finalist The Hollow Heart, has cultural landscapes, and expose their To Read The Bible. They discuss the big added paleontology, blasting powder, been similarly lauded for its originality interstices. Exponents Teju Cole, book, its provenance and power, with post-mortem photography and and linguistic gymnastics, and mash- Roxane Gay and Ashleigh Young SATURDAY MAY 20 – 11.00-11.30AM Hannah August. feminism.” The page-turner tells the up of the gothic with coming-of-age define successful essay writing, in LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE SATURDAY MAY 20 – 12.00-1.00PM tale of 14-year-old Faith, who wants themes. Di Grado speaks with Jennifer conversation with Simon Wilson. ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Educationalist and Auckland to study natural science just like Levasseur. Supported by Embassy of Italy University of Technology academic her mysteriously killed father. Join & Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Lincoln in the Bardo is the long-awaited Welby Ings author of Disobedient 60 Hardinge in conversation with Kate genre-busting first novel from Syracuse 55 Teaching slams our assessment- GENERAL EVENT De Goldi for a journey to the darker University professor George Saunders, SPECIAL EVENT obsessed, creativity-stifling, side of story-telling. a multi-faceted writer with a back education system. 20 minutes at the 53 catalogue of acclaimed short stories and podium, 10 minutes of audience challenge. FROM THE OTHER SIDE GENERAL EVENT JANE EYRE: widely considered to be one of the best contemporary writers working today. 62 AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY At the dawn of the Civil War Abraham FREE EVENT THE TRUTH ABOUT 57 Lincoln is grieving the death of his LANGUAGE GENERAL EVENT 11-year-old son Willie, who is trapped in WEEKEND GALLERY SERVICES a transitional realm – in Tibetan culture SPEAKERS’ CORNER: the “bardo”. In New Zealand for the first time, Saunders talks with Paula Morris RIGHTS ASUNDER HURRAH HAURAKI: about his work and life, and some of its weirder moments: travelling in Africa SATURDAY MAY 20 – 12.00-1.00PM RAEWYN PEART with Bill Clinton, the nun he loved, the HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE Academy Awards… SATURDAY MAY 20 –10.30-11.55AM For more than twenty-five years Ha HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Jin has lived in exile in the US, from SATURDAY MAY 20 – 10.30-11.30AM where he has written exquisite novels HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE Performer Rebecca Vaughan (Austen’s referencing his homeland of China. Women, Dalloway) returns to the The Shanghai-based author and Auckland University emeritus Festival for a five-star, solo retelling of National Public Radio correspondent SATURDAY MAY 20 – 12.00-12.30PM psychology professor and Rutherford Charlotte Bronte’s gothic subversion Rob Schmitz first arrived in China in LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Medal recipient Michael Corballis of fairy-tale romance, Jane Eyre, under 1996, as a Peace Corps volunteer. Jin and has spent a career researching the its original title. Experience the novel SATURDAY MAY 20 – 11.45-12.45PM Schmitz share outsider perspectives, Journalist and former EEO human mind. In his new book The that shocked the Victorians and AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM difference and commonality. Supported Commissioner Judy McGregor, Truth About Language: What It Is and revolutionised the art of fiction. by Asia New Zealand Foundation co-author with Margaret Wilson and Where It Came From he takes on Noam Celebrating one of NZ’s most precious Sylvia Bell of Human Rights in New Chomsky and Stephen Jay Gould to marine environments, policy director Zealand, holds that there are significant 26 27 faultlines emerging in our human country from their Christchurch 66 trip through the towns of heartland 69 Earlybird $35; Standard $40; rights landscape. 20 minutes at the base. The movers and shakers GENERAL EVENT America – Galveston, Amarillo and FREE EVENT Patrons $32; Students $20. podium; 10 minutes of audience challenge. included Denis Glover, Allen Curnow, Tulsa among them – inspired by the NB: Jane Eyre: An Autobiography is Ngaio Marsh, Douglas Lilburn, Rita songs that featured on the soundtrack performed five times during Festival Angus and Colin McCahon. Their THE MEMORY STONES: of his generation. Join him with SPEAKERS’ CORNER: week: Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 at talents and enthusiasms, and the rises Bryan Staff discussing the music and 2pm; Friday 19 at 10.30am; and Saturday 63 and falls of this artistic group are the CAROLINE BROTHERS the road, and spinning tunes FICTION IN CRISIS 20 at 10.30am & 2.30pm. FREE EVENT subject of a talk by Peter Simpson, to illustrate.

A feast of fiction, comics, whose Bloomsbury South: The Arts in poems, essays, art, satire, and things to do— to dip into, pore over, return Christchurch 1933-1953 is shortlisted to again and again. ANNUAL features new work from some of New Zealand’s best writers and illustrators. SPEAKERS’ CORNER: 71 LOOK FOR in the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Bernard Beckett Fifi Colston Gavin Bishop Dylan Horrocks Barbara Else Samuel Scott Coco Solid and Susan Paris edited by Kate Goldi De Awards. Supported by Auckland Art 68 Jenny Bornholdt GENERAL EVENT Kieran Rynhart Whiti Hereaka Ben Brown Sharon Murdoch CITY OF UNDONE - Jonathan King Gallery Toi o Tamaki. FREE EVENT and more.

DARLINGS edited by Kate De Goldi and Susan Paris I LOVE DICK: LIGHT AND SHADE 65 SATURDAY MAY 20 – 1.30-2.30PM SATURDAY MAY 20 – 2.00-2.30PM CHRIS KRAUS GENERAL EVENT LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE

Paris-based Australian author Caroline Kate De Goldi needs little introduction OUR SHAKESPEARE: Brothers bears witness to the cost to local audiences: an award-winning of human conflict. A former foreign writer, a reviewer of children’s literature JAMES SHAPIRO correspondent, she has written War and and, now, co-editor (with Susan Paris) of Photography: A Cultural History, and two the breakthrough Gecko Press Annual SATURDAY MAY 20 – 1.00-1.30PM unsentimental and powerful novels SATURDAY MAY 20 – 1.30-2.30PM for middle readers – a response to the LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE which examine displacement: The UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE dearth of quality fiction for 8-12 year SATURDAY MAY 20 – 3.00-4.00PM Memory Stones, which begins with the olds. De Goldi challenges us to work ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Actor and poet Grace Taylor, recipient Argentinian military coup of 1976 and Jennifer Niven (US) is the best- harder for younger readers. 20 minutes at of the 2016 Mayoral Writing Grant, tells the story of the Disappeared, and selling author of poignant stories that the podium; 10 minutes of audience challenge. Described as radical and gossipy asks Aucklanders to confront cultural Hinterland, which follows two asylum- reveal the often tangled experience when published 20 years ago, writer assumptions, and the realities of poverty seeking Afghan boys on a perilous of adolescence, including Holding Up and critic Chris Kraus’ novel I Love facing youth in 21st-century Aotearoa journey across Europe. Brothers speaks the Universe and All the Bright Places. SATURDAY MAY 20 – 1.30-2.30PM Dick, set in NZ and New York, has New Zealand through performance and with Dan Salmon. Supported by Platinum Emma Neale (NZ) is the author of 70 ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE turned out to have enduring clout, discourse. 20 minutes at the podium; 10 Patrons Josephine & Ross Green. the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book SPECIAL EVENT netting fans such as Lena Dunham minutes of audience challenge. Award shortlisted Billy Bird – about Pre-eminent Shakespearean scholar, with its confessional format and its a boy who kaah-kaahs like a kea – Columbia University professor James interrogation of misogyny. The book which is a serious but humorous JANE EYRE: Shapiro convinces that Shakespeare is now a television pilot, directed by 67 exploration of familial grief. Niven matters. His books include 1606: Emmy-winner Jill Soloway. Its success 64 GENERAL EVENT and Neale discuss the ways in which AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY William Shakespeare and the Year of has also prompted the re-release of GENERAL EVENT fiction can refract and illuminate the Lear, and 1599: A Year in the Life of another Kraus novel Torpor, described WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES rigors of family life from childhood William Shakespeare. His Contested by Slate as resisting “the cult of MENDOCINO TO to parenthood, and provide both Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? dealt relentless positivity” by “cultivating consolation and hope. In conversation definitively to the baloney peddled a much-needed counter-aesthetics of BLOOMSBURY SOUTH: MEMPHIS: with Catherine Robertson. by authorship conspiracists. The despair”. Kraus speaks with Kevin PETER SIMPSON most accessible of Bardologists is in KARL DU FRESNE Rabalais about who gets to speak and conversation with Michael Neill. why. Supported by NZ Contemporary Art Trust. SATURDAY MAY 20 – 2.00-3.25PM HERALD THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE

Performer Rebecca Vaughan (Austen’s Women, Dalloway) returns to the Festival for a five-star, solo retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s gothic subversion SATURDAY MAY 20 – 1.15-2.15PM SATURDAY MAY 20 – 1.30-2.30PM of fairy-tale romance, Jane Eyre, under AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE its original title. Experience the novel that shocked the Victorians and From 1933-1953 a group of men Veteran newsman and part-time revolutionised the art of fiction. and women remade the arts in this musician Karl du Fresne took a road 28 29 72 the historical fiction writer ennyJ 75 telling her he had undergone 78 on Ali Baba, Aladdin and other stories GENERAL EVENT Pattrick. Leap of Faith is her much FREE EVENT gender-reassignment surgery and GENERAL EVENT in a feast of words, visuals and music. anticipated new novel, set on the FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION changed his name from Steven to Main Trunk Line. Renowned for Stephanie. In the Darkroom is the MORAL FORCES: STEVE her deft storytelling and vivid and sometimes funny, often painful tale MATTERS MEDICAL memorable characters – crooks, IN THE NAME OF of a father and daughter reacquainted 80 SEM-SANDBERG dreamers and bootleggers among in interesting circumstances, set FREE EVENT them – Pattrick discusses her craft THE FATHER against the backdrop of resurgent FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION with Catriona Ferguson. extremism in Europe. Faludi charts a complex negotiation of identity and history across the span of a decade. INCIDENTS UNLAWFUL She speaks with Noelle McCarthy. 74 Supported by The Wallace Foundation. FREE EVENT SATURDAY MAY 20 – 4.30-5.30PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE SATURDAY MAY 20 – 3.00-4.00PM TOWN & COUNTRY 77 LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE SATURDAY MAY 20 – 3.00-3.50PM GENERAL EVENT What is it like to work in the medical LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE profession where so much is often “You don’t so much read Steve Sem- OLD GUARD at stake? How do medics walk the SATURDAY MAY 20 – 4.30-5.20PM Sandberg as stand in the fiery wind Jazz singer and writer Mary tightrope between hypothesis LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE of his prose,” notes The Guardian. The Coughlan (Bloody Mary), journalist and diagnosis and honour patient journalist, translator and author Adam Dudding (My Father’s NEW GUARD: trust? And what place does creative has written two extraordinary Writer: A Memoir), feature writer and writing play in managing the weight Criminal activity has long captured meditations on human disgrace: the memoirist Diana Wichtel (Driving BIRD & MANHIRE of expectation and responsibility? the imagination of readers. Novelists winner of Sweden’s August prize, SATURDAY MAY 20 –3.00-4.00PM to Treblinka: A long search for a lost Medics David Galler (Things That Jonothan Cullinane, Kelly Ana Morey The Emperor of Lies, which animates UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE father), and documentary maker Matter), Glenn Colquhoun (The Art of and Fiona Sussman join forces with the story of the real-life Jewish Sue Younger (Days Are Like Grass) Walking Upright), and physiotherapist crime fiction and serial killer academic administrator of the Lodz ghetto focus attention on matters paternal Sue Wootton (Strip) talk about life at David Schmid in 10-minute readings. Our national identity is often ascribed in Poland; and the novel The Chosen in 10-minute readings. Introduced by the often fragile edge, in conversation Introduced by Kirby-Jane Hallum. to our rural past. But, in truth, have Ones, which is set in the Viennese Am Anne Kennedy. with Leanne Pooley. cities shaped our present more than Spiegelgrund clinic, where ill and we care to admit, given that since disabled children were euthanized. 1911 more of us have lived in cities Sem-Sandberg joins Frances Walsh 81 than in the country? Historian Ben SATURDAY MAY 20 – 4.30-5.30PM in an exploration of the Nazi legacy 76 79 GENERAL EVENT Schrader, author of2017 Ockham LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE through the lens of fiction. GENERAL EVENT FREE EVENT New Zealand Book Award shortlisted Big Smoke, and journalist Gordon Writer Hera Lindsay Bird burst TIME TRAVEL: McLauchlan, author of Great Tales IN THE DARKROOM: onto the literary scene with her 2017 1001 NIGHTS... 73 from Rural New Zealand and The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards JAMES GLEICK GENERAL EVENT Farming of New Zealand amongst other SUSAN FALUDI shortlisted eponymous poetry IN AUCKLAND titles, fine-tune town and country collection. Bill Manhire, whose mythologies with Jim Mora. latest collection is Some Things to LEAP OF FAITH: Place in a Coffin, has made a unique contribution to the canon of NZ JENNY PATTRICK poetry, and to the literary landscape more generally. With Paris-based NZ poet Andrew Johnston they discuss the development of the country’s poetry practice, and its SATURDAY MAY 20 – 6.00-7.00PM SATURDAY MAY 20 – 4.30-5.30PM likely trajectory. SATURDAY MAY 20 – 4.30-5.30PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE According to science writer and Pulitzer-prize winning journalist How would the Arabian Nights read if polymathic thinker James Gleick, and author of the groundbreaking the stories were set in contemporary H.G. Wells was the first to combine SATURDAY MAY 20 – 3.00-4.00PM Backlash Susan Faludi has now Auckland? Join Paula Morris and the words ‘time’ and ‘travel’, thus HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE produced a memoir. In 2004, the writers of the One Thousand and creating an entirely new mode of she received an email – with the One Nights Project, including students thought. Gleick’s latest book Time The Denniston Rose and sequel Heart subject line “Changes” – from her from Edmund Hillary, Manurewa and Travel: A History distils literary of Coal are NZ best-sellers from long-estranged Hungarian father Otahuhu Colleges, for their fresh takes criticism, philosophy, and physics 30 31 in an investigation of our obsession 83 has also garnered her a prestigious 86 87 88 with the moving, bending and GENERAL EVENT international Windham-Campbell SPECIAL EVENT GENERAL EVENT FREE EVENT twisting of time. With Graeme Hill, Prize for Nonfiction. Both women this multi-award-winning author of navigate uncertain times with clarity, Isaac Newton, Chaos: Making A New THE SONG and capture emotional fluctuations THANK YOU FOR BEST OF THE BEST: STELLA AND GUESTS Science, and The Information: A History, with grace and skill. They speak with a Theory, a Flood, discusses the writing OF THE BOOK Jennifer Levasseur. BEING LATE: SPOKEN WORD of science and why, sadly, time travel does not and cannot exist. Supported THOMAS FRIEDMAN SHOWCASE by Royal Society Te Apa-rangi. 85 SPECIAL EVENT 82 GENERAL EVENT CAROL ANN DUFFY, SATURDAY MAY 20 – 9.30-10.30PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE SATURDAY MAY 20 – 6.15-7.00PM JOHN SAMPSON & THE A HOUSE OF MANY HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE WORLD’S WIFE SATURDAY MAY 20 – 7.30-8.45PM The irrepressible Stella Duffy, ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE formerly of Tokoroa, is now a writer, ROOMS: STELLA DUFFY Setting a literary challenge we asked theatre-maker and arts entrepreneur four songwriters to compose a work in London. She hosts her own salon Three times Pulitzer prize-winning inspired by a book featured in this as she’s joined on the couch by journalist Thomas Friedman is a year’s Festival. Steve Abel, Anna Festival writers and surprise guests – foreign affairs columnist for The New Coddington, Reb Fountain and including Stephanie Johnson, John York Times, and the author of From Francis Kora took the bait, and unveil Lanchester and Renee Liang – for Beirut to Jerusalem, The World is Flat, SATURDAY MAY 20 – 7.30-9.30PM their responses in the Heartland frank conversation about books and The Lexus and the Olive Grove and his GREAT HALL, AUCKLAND TOWN HALL Festival Room. Music 101’s Alex Behan the big wide world they inhabit. latest, Thank You For Being Late: An MCs. Supported by APRA/AMCOS. SATURDAY MAY 20 – 7.00-9.30PM Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Five of the brightest spoken word Free entry, cash bar. Venue open for entry SATURDAY MAY 20 – 6.00-7.00PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Accelerations. He takes the Auckland artists take to the stage in an from 7pm. LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE stage fresh from interviewing Bill unprecedented showcase of talent 84 A regular highlight of the Edinburgh Gates at the CEOs Summit in Seattle, from Ta-maki Makaurau, including The Hidden Room is a suspense- FREE EVENT Fringe programme, much-loved and not long after attempting to Marina Alefosio (Rising Voices, fuelled, psychological thriller, British Poet Laureate Carol Ann question Donald Trump in his South Auckland Poets Collective), and the latest offering from Stella Duffy collaborates with Scottish post-election meeting with The New Mohamed Hassan (New Zealand Duffy. Novel writing aside Duffy RISING VOICES: musician and actor John Sampson York Times. These are extraordinary Poetry Slam and Revival Sessions), is also a playwright, theatremaker in an interplay of words and music, times; Friedman is an acute observer Tim Heath (Poetry Idol finalist), and performer, and the recipient BENNETT AND YOUNG played on historic and modern of world affairs. In a wide-ranging Jennifer Rockwell (Word the Front of two Crime Writers’ Association instruments, which may include discussion with Michael Williams Line) and Rewa Worley (Rising Dagger Awards for her short stories. the crumhorn – a horn with a hint he discusses his new book and other Voices). Former Poetry Idol winner Duffy returns to NZ from the UK to of kazoo. Following an interval, The matters. and judge Zane Scarborough talk about her work, including her World’s Wife team of Rachel House, hosts an evening of signature upcoming project writing an Inspector David Long and Fiona Samuel, with Earlybird $35; Standard $40; pieces, improv, and a little crowd Alleyn whodunnit based on an Duffy returns for a one-hour reprise Patrons $32; Students $20. participation with international unfinished Ngaio Marsh manuscript. of their 2015 Auckland Writers guests Paul Beatty (The Sellout), She speaks with Carole Beu. Festival sell-out show. Supported by Ivan Coyote (Tomboy Survival Guide) British Council NZ. and Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey) SATURDAY MAY 20 – 6.00-7.00PM punctuating the evening with UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Cash Bar. Earlybird $55; Standard $65; performances. A special night not to Patrons $50; Students $32.50. be missed. Californian Brit Bennett rose to fame with an essay on racism in Earlybird $15; Standard $20. Jezebel and in 2016 published the novel This session may be selected as part of a The Mothers which garnered wide concession pass. acclaim. New Zealander Ashleigh Young’s second book is the highly rated 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted essay collection Can You Tolerate This? which 32 33 90 by Time magazine as “a manual on 93 95 Happiness. From Zhao the shopkeeper GENERAL EVENT how to be human” – with the novel FREE EVENT GENERAL EVENT to Auntie Fu, a fervent capitalist, WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES An Untamed State, set in Haiti, her WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES and musician and café owner CK, SUNDAY parents’ birthplace. Her latest work, here are stories that provide a tale of the story collection Difficult Women, THE ART OF CRIME 21st century China, its multi-layered 21 MAY ART CRIMES: illuminates the lives of more than 12 PHOTOGRAPHY past and the influence of the state on 20 resilient women. Gay is also a FICTION individual dreams. He speaks with PENELOPE JACKSON competitive Scrabble player in the FAVOURITES: Guyon Espiner about his life as a U.S. and writes for Marvel comics. foreign correspondent and the streets Hear this powerhouse talent, in TEJU COLE of Shanghai. Supported by Asia New conversation with Charlotte Graham. Zealand Foundation.

89 92 97 GENERAL EVENT GENERAL EVENT SPECIAL EVENT SUNDAY MAY 21 – 10.30-11.30AM SUNDAY MAY 21 – 10.15-11.15AM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE HARRY POTTER AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM THE GREAT WAR FOR JESUS’ SON: Miranda Carter, Paul Cleave, Ian SUNDAY MAY 21 – 11.45-12.45PM HIJINKS Homegrown art crime is the subject NEW ZEALAND Rankin and academic and author of AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM DENIS JOHNSON of Penelope Jackson’s book Art Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers Thieves, Fakes and Fraudsters: The New in American Culture David Schmid The New York Times photography Zealand Story. Documenting over chronicle the history of the crime critic and award-winning novelist 100 years of bad behaviour – from novel, and sort the turkeys from the and essayist Teju Cole takes the a nicked nude to an international humdingers. audience on a virtual tour of the work court battle that saw works taken of twelve of his current favourite during WWII repatriated to Italy, and photographers. Supported by Auckland Goldie homages in between – Jackson Art Gallery Toi o Ta-maki. exposes the underbelly of the arty SUNDAY MAY 21 – 10.30-11.30AM 94 SUNDAY MAY 21 – 12.00-1.00PM SUNDAY MAY 21 – 9.00-10.00AM kind. Supported by Auckland Art Gallery LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE FREE EVENT LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Toi o Ta-maki. FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION 96 The Waikato War, argues historian Taught by the great Raymond It’s the 20th-anniversary of the GENERAL EVENT Vincent O’Malley, is the defining Carver, Denis Johnson has become Harry Potter books, and Professor QUESTIONS OF TIME conflict of this country: a bloodbath a cult figure in his own right, with Frankie directs an hour of mayhem 91 that resulted in more deaths per many citing him as a key voice in in celebration. Expect Spells Duels, GENERAL EVENT STREET OF ETERNAL capita than the First World War, contemporary American fiction, Quidditch Demos, Harry Potter Trivia exposed two competing visions of a writer of “distinctly American Questions and more, with audience HAPPINESS: NZ, destroyed the thriving economy graininess: a metaphysical illiterate, volunteers and lots of prizes up for DIFFICULT WOMEN: of the region and set aside the Treaty a junkyard angel” (The Guardian). grabs. Kids, come dressed as your ROB SCHMITZ for 100 years. In his 2017 Ockham Johnson has twice been a finalist for favourite character and prepare ROXANE GAY New Zealand Book Awards longlisted the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, with yourselves for fun. book The Great War for New Zealand, the novels Tree of Smoke and Train Waikato 1800-2000, O’Malley gives SUNDAY MAY 21 – 10.30-11.20AM Dreams. He has written poetry, plays, Free for 12 and unders. this traumatic conflict its due. Te LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE screenplays and non-fiction besides, Standard $20; Student $10. Radar interviews O’Malley and as well as the notable short story Waikato-born Marama Muru- The vagaries of time – its past, present collection Jesus’ Son. He comes to NZ Lanning, author of Tu-puna Awa: People and future – are the inspiration for on a rare public outing, and speaks and Politics of the Waikato River, on our ten minute readings from novelist with Kevin Rabalais. true great war. Chris Kraus (Torpor), science writer SUNDAY MAY 21 – 12.00-1.00PM SUNDAY MAY 21 – 10.30-11.30AM James Gleick (Time Travel) YA ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE novelist Frances Hardinge (The Lie Tree) and poet Bill Manhire (Some NPR Shanghai correspondent Rob A must-read cultural critic, Things To Place in a Coffin). Introduced Schmitz has created an unforgettable Roxane Gay’s writing is marked by Rachael King. portrait of modern China through by directness, intelligence and wit. the eyes of an array of real-life She followed her best-selling essay people living along a single street in collection Bad Feminist – dubbed Shanghai in his book Street of Eternal 34 35 98 Susan Faludi (In The Darkroom) 101 Thien’s Man Booker Prize shortlisted 104 a treatise on terror, grief and exile, FREE EVENT novelist Tracy Farr (The Hope GENERAL EVENT Do Not Say We Have Nothing explores FREE EVENT and a detective story of sorts as he Fault), flash fiction writerLeanne the impact of Maoist policies and FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION pieces together his father’s fate and Radojkovich (First Fox), and poet Ian the Cultural Revolution through a that of his country’s. The Man Booker FIVE STRINGS: Wedde (Selected Poems). Introduced by THE HUMAN AND group of musicians. Meticulously Prize shortlister speaks with Michael Anne Kennedy. researched and constructed, the novel THOSE WERE THE DAYS Williams. Supported by Platinum Patrons APIRANA TAYLOR THE HISTORICAL: has been translated into 25 languages. Betsy & Michael Benjamin. Thien, who is also the author of A.N. WILSON the much-praised novel Dogs at the 100 Perimeter speaks with John Sinclair. GENERAL EVENT Supported by International Festival of WEEKEND GALLERY SERIES Authors & Canada Council for the Arts. 106 GENERAL EVENT LEWIS CARROLL’S 103 SUNDAY MAY 21 – 1.30-2.20PM THE WISH CHILD: SUNDAY MAY 21 – 12.00-1.00PM SNARK: DAVID ELLIOT FREE EVENT LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE CATHERINE CHIDGEY SUNDAY MAY 21 – 1.30-2.30PM To misquote L. P. Hartley, the past Actor, storyteller and writer Apirana ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE LOST PROPERTIES: is another country… or is it? Guest Taylor (Nga-ti Porou, Te Wha-nau writers Victorian mystery novelist a Apanui, Nga-ti Ruanui) has been The British biographer, historian, CHRIS KRAUS M J Carter (The Devil’s Feast), satirical described as “seer and shapeshifter, novelist, journalist, essayist A.N. Wilson novelist Brannavan Gnanalingam poet and warrior” (Fiona Farrell). has an all-encompassing temporal and (A Briefcase, Two Pies and A Penthouse), The author of six volumes of poetry, spiritual beat – from Jesus, Paul (the historical fiction writerKaryn Hay four short story collections, two SUNDAY MAY 21 – 1.15-2.15PM apostle), Milton, Dante, Tolstoy, Queen (The March of the Foxgloves) and poet novels, two plays and three CDs of AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Victoria, Josiah Wedgwood, Hitler, Simone Kaho (Lucky Punch) reference SUNDAY MAY 21 3.00-4.00PM music and poetry, his new novel Five Iris Murdoch and C.S. Lewis to, most days gone by in 10-minute readings. LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE Strings, launched at the Festival, tells recently, the explorers aboard Captain Introduced by Carole Beu. In this spellbinding romp and the story of two people living on the Cook’s Resolution. Wilson is in erudite interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s The Wish Child – ‘a brilliant, brilliant streets. We celebrate one of Aotearoa discussion with Simon Wilson. other, darker wonderland, Dunedin SUNDAY MAY 21 – 1.30-2.30PM novel…a masterpiece’ (Radio NZ) New Zealand’s creative spirits. In Supported by Platinum Patrons Mary Biggs & author and illustrator David Elliot UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE – is the long-awaited fourth book conversation with Catriona Ferguson. Peter Biggs CNZM. 105 leads us through the world of the GENERAL EVENT of Catherine Chidgey. Set in Snark – and the “true” story and You don’t have to paint, sculpt or Nazi Germany and told from the tragic aftermath of the expedition make installations to be an artist, perspective of two children and 99 that discovered the Snark and the 102 insists writer and filmmakerChris THE RETURN: a mysterious narrator, it is a 2017 Jabberwocky. Supported by Auckland Art Kraus. “The desire to pursue a life Ockham New Zealand Book Award FREE EVENT - GENERAL EVENT FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION Gallery Toi o Tamaki. in ‘fine art’ simply means a desire to HISHAM MATAR shortlisted title. Chidgey’s previous respond creatively to the present.” In novels are In a Fishbone Church, The DO NOT SAY WE HAVE this lecture Kraus profiles artists who Transformation, and Golden Deeds, FAMILY DYNAMICS have found creative engagement away voted book of the year by Time Out NOTHING: MADELEINE from institutions conventionally magazine (London). In conversation associated with art, in breweries for with Jennifer Levasseur. THIEN instance. Introduced by Auckland University’s Elam head of school Peter Shand. Supported by NZ Contemporary Art Trust. SUNDAY MAY 21 – 3.00-4.00PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE

SUNDAY MAY 21 – 12.00-12.50PM Hisham Matar’s writing is infused LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE with his own story. His father was a leading Libyan dissident who was Tolstoy famously said, “All happy SUNDAY MAY 21 – 1.30-2.30PM kidnapped and imprisoned, never to families are alike; each unhappy LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE be seen again. Matar’s novel In The family is unhappy in its own way.” Country of Men rawly recounts days Unpicking the dynamics closer to A moving evocation of the 20th- of terror and betrayal in Libya; his home are journalist and memoirist century tragedy of China, Madeleine more recent memoir The Return is 36 37 107 declared: “James Joyce is not dead. 110 111 112 most valuable poetry competition GENERAL EVENT He is living in Montreal under the GENERAL EVENT GENERAL EVENT GENERAL EVENT as she selects the $12,000 winner of name of Cohen.” A year later Leonard the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize. All Cohen (1934-2016) produced his debut three finalists will read before Duffy MILK AND HONEY: album containing among other CAPITAL TIMES: JOHN NATURAL BORN TOMBOY SURVIVAL announces the winner. Supported by numbers Suzanne, which went onto the Sarah Broom Poetry Trust and British RUPI KAUR be much covered by the folk singer LANCHESTER CELEBRITIES: GUIDE: IVAN COYOTE Council NZ. Judith Collins, who assessed that her friend wrote “songs for the spirit DAVID SCHMID when our spirits were strained to the breaking point”. In celebration of the 114 revered visionary, novelist, poet and FREE EVENT songwriter, Festival writers select one of his works or part thereof, discuss its significance and recite it. Lining MUST NOT READS up are: Steve Abel (NZ), Caroline SUNDAY MAY 21 – 3.00-4.00PM Brothers (Australia/France), Denis SUNDAY MAY 21 – 4.30-5.30PM SUNDAY MAY 21 – 4.30-5.30PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE Johnson (US), Chris Price (NZ), ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE Steve Sem-Sandberg (Sweden). SUNDAY MAY 21 – 4.30-5.30PM Contemporary Indian/Canadian Rupi A novelist, memoirist and journalist LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE The hit of the WORD Christchurch Kaur burst on to the international “who writes sagely and elegantly Writers Festival in 2016, Canadian literary scene as an Instapoet, posting about food, family, culture, Over the past thirty years the figure of performer, writer and filmmaker her poems online and then soaring to 109 technology and money” (The New the serial killer, luridly transgressive Ivan Coyote is one of the funniest wild success with The New York Times FREE EVENT York Times) John Lanchester is the and horrific as he or she is, has and provocative storytellers around, SUNDAY MAY 21 – 4.30-5.30PM bestselling poetry collection milk and FOUR FOR FIFTY READINGS SESSION author of four novels, including The become endemic in pop culture. The grappling with questions of identity, LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE honey. Grappling with serious issues Debt to Pleasure, and Capital (now academic and crime literature expert gender, family, and social justice. The for women she says of her poetry “this a BBC television series), and the David Schmid has a few theories as author of numerous books including Must-read book lists are ubiquitous, is the journey of / surviving through poetry CHINESE SHADOWS bluffer’s guide How To Speak Money, to why. In his Natural Born Celebrities: latest Tomboy Survival Guide, “Coyote but what of the duds? Four writers / this is the blood sweat tears / of twenty one a demystification of the workings of Serial Killers in American Culture – is to Canadian literature what k.d. who have taken several hits for the years / this is my heart / in your hands / this the global economy and the financial described by Joyce Carol Oates as lang is to country music: a beautifully team make a case for writing that is / the hurting / the loving / the breaking / markets. 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Fale Aitu | Spirit House Hera Lindsay Bird The Wish Child Love as a Stranger Tusiata Avia Hera Lindsay Bird Catherine Chidgey Owen Marshall Published by Victoria University Press Published by Victoria University Press Published by Victoria University Press Published by Vintage, Penguin Random House This is an urgent, politicised collection, which The twisty, aphoristic, wrong-footing poems in this Catherine Chidgey has taken a big story that we An engaging and unusual exploration of late- finds eloquent ways to dramatise and speak striking debut collection play the deliberately crass all think we know and told a part of it from a fresh middle-aged love. With clear, elegant writing out against horrors, injustices and abuses, both off against the deliberately ornate: ‘Byron, Whitman, and personal perspective, making its content even Marshall exposes the various, sometimes domestic and public. The poems are tough, our dog crushed by a garage door / Finger me more devastating. Her writing really is beautiful — incompatible, desires and needs of lover and sensuous, often unnerving. Prose poems, slowly / In the snowscape of your childhood’. lyrical, compelling and elegant — while the story, beloved in a novel that moves, amuses and pantoums, short lyrics, list poems, hieratic Similes, once a poetic no-no, perform exuberant set in a dangerous time, catches the reader by surprises. He captures the intense joys and invocations: the passionate voice holds all oxymorons and flamboyant non-sequiturs: ‘I write surprise with its plumbing of pains of love, reminding us these together. We teleport this poem like double-leopard depths and sudden moments that fervent, uncontrollable between geographies print / Like an antique locket of grace, beauty and light. emotions are not the preserve and cultures, Samoa to filled with pubic hair’. Bird’s It continually surprises and of teenagers, that love hurts, Christchurch, Gaza to New poems readjust readers’ affirms our humanity. and that age and experience York. The world we think expectations of what poetry do not necessarily confer we know is constantly can do, how it might behave. wisdom or clarity. made strange, yet disconcertingly familiar; the unfamiliar seems normal, close to home.

Fits & Starts This Paper Boat Billy Bird The Name on the Door Andrew Johnston Gregory Kan Emma Neale is Not Mine Published by Victoria University Press Published by Auckland University Press Published by Vintage, Penguin Random House C.K. Stead As the marvellously titled opening poem, ‘The This ambitious debut collection is built around Emma Neale’s lyrical Billy Bird is charming, Published by Allen & Unwin Otorhinolaryngologist’, puts it, these poems slivers of life-narrative, principally drawn from poignant and funny in almost equal parts. ‘hunt[] for something / in the hollow spaces // the life of Iris Wilkinson (Robin Hyde) and — with This is a startlingly recognisable tale of three Sharp and cosmopolitan, C.K. Stead’s The Name in the voiceless spaces’. These spaces include: moving laconic restraint — from the lives of the people struggling with living after great loss, on the Door is Not Mine is a clever, wry and found material from ancestry.com, the thoughts poet’s parents, before and after coming to New trying to hold their small family together as beautifully observed collection. Many of these of an Afghani, the books of the Old Testament, Zealand. These strands are made to intertwine it threatens to splinter apart under the strain striking stories, collected from over Stead’s the myth of Echo, the with, and haunt, each of a child who has forsaken long and storied career, and some of them new radio alphabet. The reader other, not least through the problematic and imperfect versions of earlier stories, is trusted to puzzle, to evocation of various Chinese humanity to become a bird. offer glimpses of a writing fit, to start all over again. ghosts. The collection aches Firmly grounded in the life both in Aotearoa New This hugely impressive, with bewildered loss, a sense landscapes and rhythms of Zealand and abroad, and challenging collection is of emotional loose ends and Aotearoa New Zealand, this suggest the work that goes scored through with a pasts only half-grasped. is an apparently quiet story into crafting such a life. broken music that sings in that soars. These stories are themselves the head. cleverly crafted and honed to seem deceptively simple and effortless.

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My Father’s Island Can You Tolerate This? Adam Dudding Ashleigh Young Published by Victoria University Press Published by Victoria University Press Adam Dudding’s writing is personal, insightful Ashleigh Young – poet, editor and author – is a and enthralling. My Father’s Island brings readers pioneer, and Can You Tolerate This? carves out uncomfortably close to memories of joy, tension a new space in New Zealand writing. It takes and mystery — a testament to Dudding’s skill as readers from Young’s inner life to the imagined a prose stylist and a storyteller. Yet the book is lives of others, from places real to places where more than its aesthetics; it’s also an important you’re not quite sure, from one moment in time Let piece of cultural history, to moments where time with Dudding approaching stops. Young is bringing his subject, his father Robin the personal essay to New Dudding, as only a journalist Zealand, and she does so with Them would and could. Yet My humour, humility and stylish Father’s Island remains, above prose. The rhetorical question all, a memoir. in the title can have only one answer – a resounding yes. Choose Our This Model World: The Big Smoke: Travels to the Edge New Zealand Cities, Finest of Contemporary Art 1840–1920 Booksellers NZ tokens and gift cards — Anthony Byrt Ben Schrader financially secured — are available at stores Published by Auckland University Press Published by Bridget Williams Books nationwide and online and are redeemable A narrative of people, places and memorable The first-ever long-range overview of our at more than 200 bookshops. experiences as much as one of paintings, prize- cities’ evolution, this book captures the restless winning installations and glamorous career shaping and moulding that defines who we are trajectories, this book is as a nation and how we a travelogue connecting came to be. Ben Schrader’s names and sites in the ideas are original and myth- history of New Zealand art. busting, and he makes us It is driven by a constant see our cities afresh with press of stories and by what a kind of double vision, artist Shane Cotton calls the past and the present ‘the idea of stories’. Ghosts, colliding. Given that 86 disappearances, transitions per cent of New Zealand’s and different ways of being population lives in cities, are pursued and linked to this research and reflection elsewhere in thoughtful, is a timely and important beautiful prose. Working contribution to our social, backwards and then forwards, Byrt negotiates cultural and environmental history. the practices of contemporary artists and makes us see the ways in which they contribute to international conversations.

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Broadcaster John Campbell is the host Internationally published novelist Catherine Chidgey’s accolades Anna Coddington is a singer Glenn Colquhoun is a poet and Novelist Caroline Brothers has of Radio New Zealand’s Checkpoint. He and historian Dr. Deborah Challinor include Best First Book for her novel songwriter who has featured in the doctor who has worked primarily worked as an editor and foreign holds a degree in English Literature, has written 15 novels and two non- In a Fishbone Church, the Katherine Silver Scroll Top 20 list four times in iwi practice and with young correspondent in Europe and is an avid reader, and the winner of fiction novels and in 2016 topped the Mansfield Award and the Prize in since 2010. She is a regular in the Fly people. Playing God, his third poetry Latin America, including for multiple Qantas Media Awards. New Zealand fiction bestseller charts Modern Letters. She is 2017 Ockham My Pretties collaboration and has collection, sold over 10,000 copies in The International New York Times. @JohnJCampbell with The Cloud Leopard’s Daughter, the New Zealand Book Award shortlisted performed at Aotearoa’s top music New Zealand. His latest book is Late Her novels include the refugee- fourth book in the Smuggler’s Wife for her bestselling new novel The Wish and arts festivals. Her latest album, Love: Sometimes Doctors Need Saving as focussed Hinterland and The Memory MIRANDA CARTER series. deborahchallinor.com Child. @CathChidgey Luck/Time, was released in 2016. Much as Their Patients. Stones exploring the disappeared ENGLAND of Argentina. Supported by Platinum JANIE CHANG LAUREN CHILD GINA COLE MICHAEL CORBALLIS Patrons Josephine & Ross Green. TAIWAN / CANADA ENGLAND FIJI / NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND Carolinebrothers.com @carobrothers KATHRYN BURNETT NEW ZEALAND

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David Elliot’s illustrator awards Viola Di Grado was born in Italy in include the Mallinson Rendell Ireland’s inaugural Fiction Laureate Writer, performer and storyteller 1987. Her first novel, 70% Acrylic 30% New Zealand expat Stella DuffyOBE Illustrators Award, a New Zealand Anne Enright is the acclaimed author Ivan Coyote is one of North America’s Wool, won the prestigious Campiello has written 15 novels, 60 short stories Ken Duncum is one of New Zealand’s Post Children’s Book Award, and of novels, short stories and essays, most gifted raconteurs, in demand First Novel Award and was published and 11 plays and is currently working leading playwrights and the director Storylines Margaret Mahy Award. as well as one book of non-fiction. on the festival circuit worldwide and in ten countries. Her second novel, on an unfinished Ngaio Marsh novel. of the MA Scriptwriting course His books include Pigtails the Pirate, She won the Man Booker Prize for exploring issues of gender, identity a finalist for the 2016 Pen Literary She is also a theatremaker and the co- at the IIML. Recent plays include Henry’s Map, and the latest – Snark – her novel The Gathering and her and family through story. Their books Awards, is a meditation on the subject director of the UK and International adaptations of The Great Gatsby and inspired by Lewis Carroll. most recent novel, The Green Road, include One In Every Crowd, Gender of death called The Hollow Heart. Fun Palaces campaign for greater West End Girls, and the Tim Finn davidelliot.org won Irish Novel of the Year and was Failure, and the latest Tomboy Survival Supported by Embassy of Italy & Istituto access to culture for all. stelladuffy. collaboration White Cloud. He has just longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Guide. Supported by International Italiano di Cultura. wordpress.com co-published BATS Plays. MARIANNE ELLIOTT Prize. Supported by Culture Ireland. Festival of Authors and Canada Council @stellduffy NEW ZEALAND for the Arts. ivancoyote.com ADAM DUDDING CLARE DUNLEAVY GUYON ESPINER @ivancoyote NEW ZEALAND AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND JONOTHAN CULLINANE NEW ZEALAND

Writer Marianne Elliott has worked for the United Nations Award-winning feature writer Adam Clare Dunleavy has strong in Afghanistan, and with the Journalist Guyon Espiner presents Dudding is a Fairfax Media reporter. connections to Waiheke Island New Zealand and Timor-Leste RNZ National’s Morning Report. His My Father’s Island, a memoir about his where her family founded Te Motu governments as a human rights career spans more than twenty years Jonothan Cullinane worked in the late father, the literary editor Robin Vineyard and where she has worked advocate. She is the author of Zen during which he has worked across film and television industry in New Dudding, has been shortlisted for as a sommelier and maitre’d. Her Under Fire: A Story of Love and Work broadcast and print media, including Zealand for 25 years before producing the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book book Waiheke Island – A World of in Afghanistan and the national co- as political editor for TVNZ and the his first novel, Red Herring, set in Awards. @adudding Wine: The People Behind the Labels director of Action Station. Sunday Star Times. @GuyonEspiner 1950s Auckland at the time of the profiles the winemakers of Waiheke, @zenpeacekeeper waterfront strike. accompanied by portraits by the late Marti Friedlander. 72 73 SUSAN FALUDI SUSIE FERGUSON DAVID GALLER JAMES GLEICK STAN GRANT SCOTT HAMILTON UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND UNITED STATES AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND

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Singer, songwriter and performer Reb Bestselling feminist writer Roxane Mandy Hager is a multi-award Fountain studied jazz in Seattle and Gay has written countless pieces of winning writer of fiction for young Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen is of Tainui has produced two albums: Like Water fiction and non-fiction including Brannavan Gnanalingam is a lawyer adults, including Singing Home the (Nga-ti Mahanga), Taranaki, Chinese Tracy Farr is a Wellington writer who (2006) and APRA Silver Scrolls finalist the novel Untamed State, the essay and reviewer and the author of four Whale and Dear Vincent. Amongst her (Guangdong) and Pa-keha- descent. used to be a scientist. She won the Holster (2008). She tours extensively collection Bad Feminist, a Marvel novels: Getting Under Sail, You Should accolades are three LIANZA Book In 2006 she completed her PhD on Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award as a long-time member of The Eastern comic and the recently published Have Come Here When You Were Not Awards, a New Zealand Post Book representations of Ma-ori women in 2014, and her debut novel The Life and is set to release her long awaited short story collection Difficult Women. Here, Credit in the Straight World, and Award and Beatson and Katherine in Ma-ori theatre, and her play, The and Loves of Lena Gaunt was longlisted new EP and album this year. Her memoir Hunger is due out in his latest, the 2017 Ockham NZ Book Mansfield Menton Fellowships. Her Mooncake and the Ku- mara, has toured for that year’s Miles Franklin Literary June 2017. roxanegay.com @rgay Awards longlisted A Briefcase, Two Pies latest book is Heloise. mandyhager.com New Zealand. Award. The Hope Fault is her second THOMAS FRIEDMAN and a Penthouse. @Brannavan novel. tracyfarrauthor.com UNITED STATES LLOYD GEERING KIRBY-JANE HALLUM FRANCES HARDINGE @hissingswan NEW ZEALAND CHARLOTTE GRAHAM NEW ZEALAND ENGLAND NEW ZEALAND CATRIONA FERGUSON NEW ZEALAND

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Award-winning YA and adult author Renata Hopkins has written for film, Art historian Penelope Jackson has David Hill has been published television, theatre and the page, is worked on exhibitions including Lucinda Hawksley is an author and internationally and won a Notable a regular contributor to the School Lynley Dodd: A Retrospective and the broadcaster whose subjects include Children’s Book Award in the United Journal and was included in the 2016 One of New Zealand’s most celebrated award-winning Corrugations: The biographies, social history, feminism States for See Ya, Simon. His latest books Gecko Press Annual. In 2012 she won writers, Witi Ihimaera is the author Art of Jeff Thomson. A trustee of the Award-winning novelist, poet, and art history. She is the great- include Enemy Camp and Flight Path. the writing competition Once Upon a of seven short story collections and 15 NZ Art Crime Research Trust, she playwright and co-founder of the great-great granddaughter of Charles Time: Grimm Fairy Tales for Aotearoa novels including The Whale Rider, The is the author of Art Thieves, Fakers Auckland Writers Festival, Stephanie Dickens, a Patron of the Charles New Zealand. Matriarch and Woman Far Walking. & Fraudsters: The New Zealand Story Johnson is also an active critic and Dickens Museum and the author of His book Ma-ori Boy: A Memoir of about New Zealand art crime. creative writing teacher. Recent Charles Dickens and His Circle. Childhood won the 2016 Ockham New publications include the memoir, Zealand Book Award for Non-Fiction. Playing for Both Sides, novel The Writers' Festival and an anthology of writing about dogs.

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Paris-based poet and international Amie Kaufman has degrees in Fiona Kidman has written novels, Chris Kraus is a Los Angeles based writer, John Lanchester is contributing editor Writer and editor Jennifer Levasseur news editor Andrew Johnston is the law, history and literature and a short stories, memoirs and poetry, art critic, and editor whose novels include at the London Review of Books and an reviews books for The Age, The Sydney author of five collections of poems master’s degree in conflict resolution. published internationally and I Love Dick, Torpor, Aliens & Anorexia, award-winning novelist and journalist. Morning Herald and The Australian including How to Talk, which won She worked as a mediator before actively contributed to the New and Summer of Hate. Educated in New His books include Capital, which has and co-writes online literary journal the 1994 New Zealand Book Award becoming a full-time writer for young Zealand literary sector for which she Zealand she moved to New York aged been adapted into a three- part serial Sacred Trespasses. Her book credits for Poetry. His most recent book is adults and is the co-author, with was made a Dame Companion of 21. Her biography of writer Kathy Acker for TV, How To Speak Money and include Novel Voices, Walker Percy's The the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Jay Kristoff, of the internationally the New Zealand Order of Merit. Her is due out in late 2017. Supported by NZ Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone Moviegoer at Fifty, and Conversations Awards shortlisted Fits and Starts. bestselling series The Illuminae. latest novel is All Day At the Movies. Contemporary Art Trust. and No One Can Pay. Supported by with James Salter. Sacredtrespasses.com amiekaufman.com fionakidman.com Heartland Bank. @HowToSpeakMoney SIMONE KAHO LAWRENCE KRAUSS RENEE LIANG NEW ZEALAND RUPI KAUR RACHAEL KING UNITED STATES LAST TAPES NEW ZEALAND INDIA / CANADA NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Simone Kaho is a graduate of the Theoretical physicist, writer, Renee Liang is a prolific writer International Institute of Modern Rupi Kaur is a poet, multimedia artist, Rachael King is the Literary Director filmmaker and science communicator Last Tapes Theatre Company are a who believes in the power of arts Letters. Noted for her dynamic stage and spoken word performer, who of WORD Christchurch and the Professor Lawrence Krauss is Chair small professional theatre company and communities. She has toured presence, she performs regularly as began her career sharing poems at author of Magpie Hall (2009), The of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ with a focus on bringing intimate and seven plays, written three poetry a spoken word artist and is currently poetry readings and online. Her #1 Sound of Butterflies (2006) and Red Rocks Board of Sponsors and Director of challenging works to the Auckland chapbooks, edited eight anthologies touring her first book, Lucky Punch New York Times bestselling poetry and (2012). In between programming the Origins Project. His best-selling stage. Performances by Cherie Moore of migrant women’s writing, and around New Zealand. prose collection, Milk and Honey, has literary events she is writing an adult books include A Universe from Nothing and Ryan Dulieu. lasttapes.co.nz recently wrote the libretto for The sold one million copies with her next and a children’s novel and the just published The Greatest Bone Feeder opera and the book for a GREGORY KAN collection due later in 2017. Supported Story Ever Told…SO FAR. Supported by MICHELE LEGGOTT new musical. NEW ZEALAND by International Festival of Authors and FRANCIS KORA Platinum Patrons Carol & Gerard Curry. NEW ZEALAND Canada Council for the Arts. NEW ZEALAND @LKrauss1 ROSEANNE LIANG rupikaur.com @rupikaur NEW ZEALAND SARAH LAING ANNE KENNEDY NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Gregory Kan’s work has featured in Professor Michele Leggott is the literary journals such as brief, Hue & Francis Kora (Nga-i Tuhoe, Nga-ti author of seven collections of Cry, Minarets, Sport and Turbine, as Pukeko) is the frontman of iconic poetry, including Heartland) and Scriptwriter and director Roseanne well as art exhibitions, journals and band Kora and a member of the much- co-founder of the New Zealand Liang has written for both film catalogues. His first book of poetry, loved Modern Ma-ori Quartet. He has Sunday Star Times short story Electronic Poetry Centre (NZEPC). and television and has made the This Paper Boat is shortlisted for the Poet and novelist Anne Kennedy’s also worked in film and television, competition winner Sarah Laing, She was the inaugural Poet Laureate internationally acclaimed short film 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book has won numerous national book as a presenter on Ma-ori TV and in a is the author of story collection and has received a New Zealand Take 3, festival documentary Banana Awards. awards and was shortlisted for the debut role in The Pa Boys. Coming up Roses, and novels Dead Prime Minister's Award for Literary in a Nutshell, the award-winning My 2014 fiction prize for The Last Days People’s Music and The Fall of Light. She Achievement in Poetry. Wedding and Other Secrets and cult hit of the National Costume. She teaches recently produced the 2017 Ockham comedy webseries Flat3 and Friday fiction and screenwriting at Manukau New Zealand Book Awards longlisted Night Bites. Institute of Technology. graphic memoir Mansfield and Me. annekennedy.co.nz sarahlaing.com @SarahElaing

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Douglas Lloyd Jenkins has written a Novelist, columnist and screenwriter Internationally published poet and Hisham Matar spent his childhood Journalist and author Gordon RNZ National The Panel host Jim Mora number of award-winning books and Sarah-Kate Lynch is the author of short story writer Bill Manhire in Tripoli and Cairo and is the author McLauchlan has written several is an award-winning journalist and received a New Zealand Order of Merit twelve books including Heavenly was New Zealand’s inaugural Poet of books including the international best sellers, including The Passionless columnist. He has made and narrated for his contribution to New Zealand Hirani’s School of Laughing Yoga and Laureate and the founder of the award winner and Man Booker People. His book A Short History of a number of TV documentaries, architecture and design. Formerly Screw You Dolores. She recently took International Institute of Modern shortlisted novel In the Country of Men, New Zealand has been re-issued (four presented various television series the Director of MTG Hawkes Bay, his up scriptwriting working on hit show Letters. He has published over 15 and the prizewinning memoir, The times) and he has recently produced and created internationally successful latest book is Beach Life: A Celebration of 800 Words and currently has her own poetry collections, the latest of which Return, a powerful exploration of the Great Tales from Rural New Zealand. books and television animations for Kiwi Beach Culture. series in development. is Some Things to Place in a Coffin. fate of Libya and of his father. He has gordonmclauchlan.com children. sarah-katelynch.com @pacificraft been translated into 29 languages. DAVID LONG Supported by Platinum Patrons Betsy & FRANKIE MCMILLAN WARREN MORAN NEW ZEALAND FINLAY MACDONALD TOBY MANHIRE Michael Benjamin. NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND @hishamjmatar NOELLE MCCARTHY NEW ZEALAND

David Long is a musician, composer, Christchurch-based teacher, Frankie Warren Moran is a writer, geographer producer and a founding member of Finlay Macdonald is a writer, Toby Manhire is senior editor at The McMillan, is an award-winning poet and wine enthusiast and the author The Mutton Birds. He has composed broadcaster and communications Spinoff and a columnist for The New and fiction writer. Her latest book of New Zealand Wine: The Land, the for contemporary dance and film, specialist. He has served as the editor Zealand Herald and RNZ. From 2000 of flash fiction, My Mother and the Vines, the People which delivers an including for Peter Jackson and was of New Zealand Listener, the Publisher to 2010 he worked at The Guardian in Irish broadcaster Noelle McCarthy Hungarians and other small fictions, was absorbing illustrated narrative on this the music composer for the Auckland at HarperCollins, and Commissioning London, and edited the 2012 book The is a freelance journalist and book longlisted for the 2017 Ockham New leading industry. The book has been Writers Festival’s 2015 production of Editor for Penguin Books. @MacFinlay Arab Spring: Rebellion, Revolution and a reviewer for The New Zealand Herald Zealand Book Awards. shortlisted for this year’s Ockham The World’s Wife. davidlong.co.nz New World Order. and Metro magazine. Her podcast New Zealand Book Awards. TINA MAKERETI @toby_etc series about aging, A Wrinkle in Time, COURTNEY SINA MEREDITH LANA LOPESI NEW ZEALAND was broadcast on RNZ National in NEW ZEALAND KELLY ANA MOREY NEW ZEALAND SELINA TUSITALA MARSH 2016. @noellevivien NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND JUDY MCGREGOR NEW ZEALAND

Creative writing lecturer and writer Courtney Sina Meredith is a poet, Lana Lopesi is a writer and critic Tina Makereti’s work includes the fiction writer, playwright and Of Nga-ti Kuri descent, Kelly Ana based in Auckland. Her work novel Where the Re-kohu Bones Sing, Pasifika poet-scholar of Samoan, musician. She launched her first book Morey has written four novels, three often explores the various issues and the 2016 Commonwealth Pacific Tuvaluan, English and French descent, of poetry, Brown Girls in Bright Red social histories and a childhood for diaspora and indigenous Prizewinning short story Black Milk. Selina Tusitala Marsh’s first collection Head of Social Sciences and Lipstick, at the 2012 Frankfurt Book memoir as well as poems, short stories communities and she is the Visual Her co-edited anthology of Ma-ori & of poetry Fast Talking PI won Best First Public Policy at AUT, Professor Fair, and has since published a short criticism and journalism. Her recent Arts Editor for The Pantograph Pasifika writing, Black Marks on the Book of Poetry at the New Zealand Post Judy McGregor CNZM is a trained story collection, Tail of the Taniwha to book Daylight Second is about the Punch, contributing editor of Design White Page will be published in 2017. Book Awards and has achieved wide lawyer, journalist and former EEO critical acclaim. courtneymeredith.com legendary racehorse Phar Lap. Assembly and was founding editor of tinamakereti.com cult status. She works as an Associate Commissioner. She has published #500words. lanalopesi.com Professor at The University of Auckland. seven books including recently co- authoring Human Rights in New Zealand.

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Josh Morgan (Te Aitanga-a-Ma-haki, Pencilsword creator Toby Morris is The University of Auckland Jenni Ogden is the author of Chris Parker works across television, Bass player Richie Pickard is a Rongowhakaata) is the illustrator of an illustrator, designer, and comic Emeritus Professor Michael Neill neuropsychology books Fractured theatre and comedy and is currently professional musician and educator award-winning picture book Keys artist and one half of the RNZ Toby is an internationally recognised Minds and Trouble in Mind and is writing for TV3s Jono and Ben and who has performed with artists / Nga- Kı- and of The Marble Maker and Toby duo. He wrote the parenting Shakespearean scholar, as well as the recipient of a Distinguished Funny Girls, and has recently appeared including Josh Groban, Elaine Paige, / He Kaihanga Ma-pere with Sacha manual Don’t Puke on Your Dad and an actor and singer. Amongst other Career Award by the International in Silo Theatre’s Hudson and Halls Live! Breaks Co-op, Julia Deans, Dave Cotter. His work has also included two children’s books: Capsicum Capsi publications, he edited Othello and Neuropsychological Society. Her He is the co-creator, with Thomas Dobbyn and Nadia Reid. He tutors on illustrating posters, chapter books, Go and The Day the Costumes Stuck. Antony and Cleopatra for the Oxford debut novel, A Drop in the Ocean, has Sainsbury, of the web series Bachelor the South Auckland Sistema Aotearoa maps, album art and activity books. xtotlworldwide.com @xtotl Shakespeare series. gone on to win American writing Pad and Stakeout. @crobker programme and is the Associate awards. jenniogden.com Director for Bands by Design. BRIAN MORRIS MARAMA MURU-LANNING JENNIFER NIVEN JENNY PATTRICK NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND UNITED STATES VINCENT O’MALLEY NEW ZEALAND SIMON POLLARD NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Brian Morris is an Executive Director Dr Marama Muru-Lanning (Waikato, Jennifer Niven is the author of novels, Jenny Pattrick is one of New Zealand’s and owner of HUIA Publishing Nga-ti Maniapoto) is the Acting non-fiction and YA books including Historian and founding partner of bestselling novelists, the author of Spider specialist and Professor in with which he has been associated Director of the James Henare Ma-ori The New York Times and international research consultancy HistoryWorks, nine books including The Denniston Science Communication at The for 4 years. He is a registered Ma-ori Research Centre at The University of bestseller All the Bright Places, for Dr Vincent O’Malley is the author Rose which have all reached number University of Canterbury, Simon language translator providing his Auckland where she also advises on which she also wrote the screenplay, of a number of New Zealand history one. She has an OBE for services to Pollard is an award-winning natural expertise to the HUIA Publishers elderly health. A specialist in water, and Holding Up The Universe. She is the books including The New Zealand literature and has just released new history photographer, writer and team for Ma-ori language editing and environment and indigenous rights, founder of Germ Magazine, an online Herald Book of the Year 2016 and title Leap of Faith. jennypattrick.com documentary adviser. His latest translations. in 2016 she published Tu-puna Awa: literary and lifestyle magazine aimed Ockham New Zealand Book Awards publication is the children’s book People and Politics of the Waikato River. at youth. Supported by Penguin Random 2017 longlisted title The Great War for RAEWYN PEART The Genius of Bugs. PAULA MORRIS House and Embassy of the United States New Zealand. @vomalley NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND EMMA NEALE of America. jenniferniven.com @ DOUG POOLE NEW ZEALAND jenniferniven RICHARD PAMATATAU NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND CHRISTINE O’BRIEN NEW ZEALAND

Raewyn Peart is Policy Director at Paula Morris (Nga-ti Wai) writes the Environmental Defence Society award-winning novels, short stories Emma Neale is an editor and creative and a lawyer. She has written widely Doug Poole is a poet and the creator, and creative non-fiction for younger writing tutor and the author of five AUT Journalism academic Richard on coastal land marine issues and editor and publisher of online poetry readers. She teaches Creative Writing collections of poetry and six novels. Pamatatau has been a journalist for recently published The Story of the journal blackmail press. His work has at The University of Auckland and Her novel Billy Bird is shortlisted for Christine O’Brien is a champion of more than twenty years, including Hauraki Gulf. appeared in many New Zealand journals founded the ANZL in 2016. Recent the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book New Zealand literature and poetry stints as Radio New Zealand’s Pacific and anthologies and his collaborations books include the memoir On Coming Awards, following a 2016 longlisting in particular. She supported many Issues Correspondent and as deputy include the widely acclaimed Polynation Home. paula-morris.com @pjkmorris for her poetry collection Tender Kiwi authors in their scholarly and editor to NZ Info Tech Weekly and a performance show. Machines. emma.neale.wordpress.com legal publishing for more than 25 contributor to the The New Zealand @EmEnSpace years and is currently a member of Herald. He is a contributor to the book the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board Reimagining Journalism. and Chair of the Youth Connections South governance group. 82 83 LEANNE POOLEY KEVIN RABALAIS IAN RANKIN JENNIFER ROCKWELL THOMAS SAINSBURY FIONA SAMUEL NEW ZEALAND UNITED STATES / AUSTRALIA SCOTLAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Filmmaker Leanne Pooley has made Kevin Rabalais is co-writer of Author of the Inspector Rebus and Jennifer Rockwell started slam Playwright, screen writer, comedian Fiona Samuel is an award-winning more than 25 documentaries which the online literary journal Sacred Detective Malcolm Fox novels, as well poetry therapeutically in 2016 and and actor Tom Sainsbury is co- writer, director and actor whose work have screened in over 100 countries Trespasses, a regular book reviewer as a string of standalone thrillers, Ian has since won Word the Front Line, creator of the web-series Stake Out for screen and stage includes Consent: and range across topics from the and co-editor of the book Novel Voices. Rankin is the recipient of numerous the Going West Books and Writers and Bachelor Pad. He is co-writer for The Louise Nicholas Story and Bliss. She Topp Twins to the Pope. She has won He is also a winner of The Sydney awards including four CWA Dagger Festival Slam. She was a finalist the TV series Super City and has won created and performed in The World’s numerous awards and was named Morning Herald Award for Best Young Awards. He holds honorary degrees of the Tearfund Justice Slam and Playmarket’s Young Playwright of the Wife at the New Zealand Festival in an Arts Laureate by the NZ Arts Novelist for The Landscape of Desire. from the Universities of Abertay, St represented NZ in the first ever trans- Year four times. @ThomasSainsbury 2002, reprising it for the 2015 Auckland Foundation and is an Officer of the Andrews, Hull and Edinburgh and tasman youth slam in Sydney 2016. Writers Festival. fionasamuel.com New Zealand Order of Merit. LEANNE RADOJKOVICH has an OBE for services to literature. DAN SALMON NEW ZEALAND ianrankin.net @beathhigh RUSS RYMER NEW ZEALAND GEORGE SAUNDERS JENNY POWELL UNITED STATES UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND JAY RAYNER ENGLAND

Leanne Radojkovich is a flash Dan Salmon is a screen director, fiction writer who launches her Russ Rymer is a critically acclaimed writer and producer of award- Considered one of America’s Poet and teacher Jenny Powell has debut collection First Fox in Festival journalist and author whose winning documentaries and foremost contemporary writers, published six collections of poetry week. She presented at the 14th Journalist, food critic, author, 2012 National Geographic essay on television. He was a contributor to George Saunders has published four and her work can be found in a wide International Conference on the broadcaster and jazz musician Jay Disappearing Languages garnered Volume One of The Journal of Urgent collections of short stories, including range of literary magazines. Her latest Short Story in English, in Shanghai, Rayner is currently the restaurant him an Overseas Press Club Award. Writing, and co-writer of Helen Clark: Tenth of December: stories which won book The Case of the Missing Body is a and her flash fiction street art can be critic for the Observer. He has His novels include American Beach, Inside Stories. the Folio Prize and was a finalist in personal and true account of living found in the United States, Sweden published novels and non-fiction and Paris Twilight for which he won a the National Book Awards. His first with the rare Proprioception Deficit. and Tanzania. @linedealer and his titles include The Apologist, Whiting Award. russrymer.com JOHN SAMPSON novel Lincoln in the Bardo has just Greedy Man in a Hungry World, and his SCOTLAND been published to critical acclaim. CHRIS PRICE RANDA latest The Ten (Food) Commandments. MARK SAINSBURY georgesaundersbooks.com NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND Supported by Platinum Patrons Adrian NEW ZEALAND Burr & Peter Tatham. ZANE SCARBOROUGH jayrayner.co.uk @jayrayner1 NEW ZEALAND CATHERINE ROBERTSON NEW ZEALAND John Sampson is a Scottish multi- instrumental musician, actor and Award winning poet, editor, singer and Randa– real name Mainard Larkin Mark Sainsbury is a current affairs entertainer. He has worked in theatre IIML creative writing teacher Chris – is an Auckland-based rapper television presenter and Radio Live and television and since 2003 has Price has published three collections whose songs contain a strong social host. He was political editor of One collaborated with Britain’s poet Two-time Poetry Idol winner and of poetry: Husk (2002), The Blind Singer commentary on popular culture, as News and won a Qantas Media Award laureate Carol Ann Duffy in live judge Zane Scarborough (Nga-puhi) (2009) and Beside Herself (2016). she well as a hyper-coloured take on life. for fronting television current affairs performance for adults and children, is formerly a member of the South served as Editor of Landfall from Since 2012, he has released three EPs Number one best-selling author programme Close Up. @sainso using recorders, trumpets, crumhorn, Auckland Poets Collective. He 1993-1996. and also opened for international acts Catherine Robertson is the NZSA gemshorn, cornettino and other has taught and performed poetry such as Grimes and Tokimonsta. representative on the Book Awards instruments. Supported by British internationally, and works for the Trust and on the Executive of Council NZ. johnsampson.co.uk charity Parenting Place. Romance Writers Association of New Zealand. Her books include The Hiding Places, and the Imperfect Lives series. catherinerobertson.net 84 85 DAVID SCHMID OWEN SCOTT JAMES SHAPIRO PHILLIP SIMPSON JIMMY SMYTH C.K. STEAD ENGLAND / UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND UNITED STATES NEW ZEALAND IRELAND NEW ZEALAND

David Schmid is an English professor Owen Scott is a writer, actor and One of the world’s foremost Writer and teacher Phillip W. Jimmy Smyth is considered one Emeritus Professor C.K. Stead is a at the University at Buffalo in New broadcaster whose book, Deep Beyond Shakespearean scholars, James Simpson’s internationally published of Ireland's greatest guitarists poet, novelist, essayist and literary York and an expert on crime and The Reef, about his family’s history in Shapiro teaches English at Columbia YA fiction, including Minotaur and and was Van Morrison's musical critic. His latest collection of stories, crime fiction. He has won multiple Fiji, was featured on RNZ National University and has won numerous Rapture, has been shortlisted for director in 2002. He has played at the taken from his long and storied career teaching awards and is the author of and inspired Annie Goldson’s awards for books including 1599: A Sir Julius Vogel Awards. He has Grammy Awards, was nominated and including new versions of earlier Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers award-winning film An Island Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, Masters’ degrees in Archaeology and for a Grammy as co-writer with Toni stories, is the 2017 Ockham New in American Culture and The Secrets Calling several awards worldwide. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Creative Writing and is working on Childs for 'Best Rock Song' and has Zealand Book Awards shortlisted The of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction. He currently works as a freelance and The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in a Doctorate in Education focussed on also played with Gilbert O'Sullivan. Name on the Door Is Not Mine. Supported by The University of Auckland journalist and on adaptation and 1606. Jamesshapiro.net motivating childrens’ writing. Faculty of Arts. @DavidSchmid1 recording for radio. BRYAN STAFF NADIA SUNDE IAIN SHARP JOHN SINCLAIR NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIA ROB SCHMITZ STEVE SEM-SANDBERG NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND UNITED STATES / CHINA SWEDEN

AUTUMN 2017 AUTUMN 233 aotearoa new zealand arts and letters

70th Anniversary Issue

ANNOUNCING the winner of the Charles BraschYoung Writers’ Essay Competition 2017 Bryan Staff joined the NZBC as an Award-winning Australian Poet and librarian Iain Sharp John Sinclair reviews books for Metro announcer in 1969 and worked for performer and author of two Rob Schmitz is the Shanghai Lauded by Hilary Mantel, Steve emigrated from Glasgow when he magazine, and is a prison reformer a number of North Island stations children’s books, Nadia Sunde, has Correspondent for NPR and the Sem-Sandberg’s novels The Emperor was eight and works as a manuscripts and yoga teacher. His experience as championing NZ music. In 1979 he written for children’s theatre and author of Street of Eternal Happiness: of Lies and The Chosen Ones have won librarian at the Auckland Central an Asia Foundation Fellow in Harbin, established Ripper Records and wrote works as a freelance consultant and Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai him the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Public Library. He has published four China, provided the material for his a history of New Zealand record producer/director. Her recent work Road. He has won several awards for Doublog Prize and the prestigious books of poetry, non-fiction titles and 2013 novel The Phoenix Song. companies and their labels during includes playing Professor Frankie his reporting on China, including August Prize (Sweden’s Booker). A has served as editor at New Zealand’s the years of vinyl. His other love is Falconette, “Harry Potter Enthusiast”, two national Edward R. Murrow novelist, journalist, non-fiction writer literary magazine Landfall. JANE SKILTON international travel. a character in celebration of the Harry awards. Supported by Asia New Zealand and translator, his work explores dark ENGLAND / NEW ZEALAND Potter novels. nadiasunde.com Foundation. chapters in Europe’s WWII history. PETER SIMPSON ZARA STANHOPE robschmitz.com @rob_schmitz NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND FIONA SUSSMAN PETER SHAND SOUTH AFRICA / NEW ZEALAND BEN SCHRADER NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND

Jane Skilton’s wine career began in the UK where she passed her Master Literary and art historian Peter of Wine examination in 1993. She Auckland Art Gallery Principal Simpson is the author of six books moved to New Zealand in 2000 and Curator and Head of Programmes Dr A former GP, Fiona Sussman now Peter Shand is the Head of Elam and the co-founder of Holloway writes about wine, judges nationally Zara Stanhope is the editor of the 2017 writes, mentors in creative writing Historian Ben Schrader was Senior School at The University of Auckland Press, which drew on the small-press and internationally and teaches at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and works in the Auckland Charity Researcher of the award-winning with a PhD in Art History from tradition of Lowry and Glover. His NZ School of Wines and Spirits which shortlisted Ann Shelton: Dark Matter, Hospital she helped establish. Her New Zealand Historical Atlas and has The University of Auckland and an latest book is the 2017 Ockham New she founded. an exquisitely designed compilation second novel The Last Time We Spoke written extensively for Te Ara. He LLM in intellectual and cultural Zealand Book Awards shortlisted independentwinemonthly.co.nz catalogue to accompany the artist’s won the Kobo/NZ Society of Authors specialises in urban history and his property from King’s College, Bloomsbury South: The Arts in retrospective exhibition. Publishing Prize and was shortlisted latest book The Big Smoke: New Zealand London. Research interests include Christchurch 1933-1953. for the NZ Heritage Book Awards. Cities 1840-1920 has been shortlisted contemporary art, fashion theory and for the 2017 Ockham New Zealand practice, and creativity and the law. Book Awards. 86 87 MELINDA SZYMANIK GRACE TAYLOR MADELEINE THIEN TOURETTES REBECCA VAUGHAN GEOFF WALKER NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND CANADA NEW ZEALAND ENGLAND NEW ZEALAND

melinda Szymanik is an award- Poet, performer, director and youth Of Malaysian and Chinese descent, Dominic Hoey aka Tourettes, is a Actor and playwright Rebecca One of this country’s most winning writer of picture books, worker, Grace Taylor is the co- Madeleine Thien has published poet, author and musician who has Vaughan trained in theatre and has experienced editors, Geoff Walker short stories and novels for children founder of the South Auckland Poets short stories and novels. Her two released four critically acclaimed appeared in film, television and on is also a writer and publishing and young adults. She teaches creative Collective and the Rising Voices most recent books are Dogs At The studio albums, been a slam-poetry stage. Her celebrated one-woman consultant. As Penguin New writing workshops, has been involved Poetry Movement. She is the author of Perimeter, set in Cambodia, and Do champion and performed his work theatre shows with Dyad Productions Zealand Publishing Director he in THE FABO story online initiative, poetry collection Afakasi Speaks and Not Say We Have Nothing which both in New Zealand and abroad. include Austen’s Women, Dalloway, oversaw authors including Michael and has recently co-authored play My Own Darling, and received garnered her the Governor General’s @tourettesone Female Gothic, I, Elizabeth and the five- King, Maurice Gee, Lloyd Jones, Fuzzy Doodle with Donovan Bixley. the 2016 Auckland Mayoral Writers’ Award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize starred Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Witi Ihimaera, Patricia Grace and Melindaszymanik.blogspot.com Grant to work on the new piece City of and a Man Booker Prize shortlisting. STEVEN TOUSSAINT @RebeccaVaughan @DyadProductions Ranginui Walker. @MelSzymanik Undone Darlings. Supported by International Festival of NEW ZEALAND

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NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND Steven Toussaint TIM TIPENE The Bellfounder NEW ZEALAND poems by Steven Toussaint THE CULTURAL SOCIETY Steven Toussaint is the author of the poetry collection The Bellfounder (The Cultural Society, 2015). A graduate Memoir writer, award-winning Award-winning writer and editor Rosabel Tan is the founding editor Ngahuia te Awekotuku MNZM is a of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and architect and actor Tyl von Randow's Frances Walsh has had a long career of arts and culture journal The writer, researcher and a specialist on the International Institute of Modern Shanghai childhood spanned Japanese in journalism including as Books and Pantograph Punch and contributing ta- moko and the Ma-ori way of death. Tim Tipene (Nga-ti Kuri, Nga-ti Letters, he is a 2017 Grimshaw occupation, post-war American rule Arts Editor at Metro. She wrote Inside editor at Paperboy. Her work has been She held senior positions across Wha-tua) is the award-winning author Sargeson fellow. and the rise of the Red Army before Stories: A History of the New Zealand published in Sport, Hue & Cry, The Aotearoa, including at Waikato, of nine children’s books and junior his family moved to New Zealand Housewife 1890-1975 and has also Spinoff, The Wireless, and Tell You What: Auckland and Victoria Universities novels including Kura Toa, Haere and MPHO TUTU VAN FURTH at fourteen. His book Red Dust over worked as a trade unionist and teacher. Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2017. for Art History and Ma-ori Studies. Taming the Taniwha. He is a pioneering SOUTH AFRICA Shanghai is a record of those times. @incorrect_pin Her book of short fiction is Tahuri: A youth and self-defence counsellor and NIC WATT Limited Edition. leads the Peace Masters programme. ZAK WAIPARA AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND APIRANA TAYLOR timtipene.com NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND TE RADAR NEW ZEALAND AARON TOPP NEW ZEALAND

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SEATING Cole, Gina 16, 21, 71 Smyth, Jimmy 15, 16, 24, 87 Levasseur, Jennifer 26, 32, 37, 79 Colquhoun, Glenn 7, 12, 16, 23, 31, 71 Staff, Bryan 28, 87 Coffee, drinks and light meals are Liang, Renee 83, 79 The ASB Theatre has an induction Corballis, Michael 26, 71 Stanhope, Zara 14, 61, 87 Ticketed events: All seating for ticketed available for purchase at the Aotea Liang, Roseanne 39, 79 loop system Cotter, Sacha 12, 42, 71 Stead, C.K. 14, 63, 87 events is General Admission. Patrons Lloyd Jenkins, Douglas 24, 80 Centre, in the Heartland Festival Room Coughlan, Mary 15, 16, 24, 30, 72 Sunde, Nadia (aka Professor Frankie) 12, 34, 87 and Friends have reserved seating areas Long, David 32, 80 Café and parking available at Aotea in Aotea Square, and at the Auckland Coyote, Ivan 7, 12, 16, 19, 33, 39, 72 Sussman, Fiona 31, 87 in the front rows of each level. Colour- Lopesi, Lana 23, 80 Centre and other nearby locations. Art Gallery. 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Duncum, Ken 43, 73 Marshall, Owen 14,63 form as early as 45 minutes prior to a Centre, overlooking the square. The Tipene, Tim 7, 12, 88 Closest parking is at the Kitchener Dunleavy, Clare 21, 73 Matar, Hisham 7, 12, 20, 37, 81 Free Event session start time. Venue Topp, Aaron 7, 12, 88 perfect place to relax or meet other Eggleton, David 21, 73 McCarthy, Noelle 31, 81 Street Car Park. Disabled access is Tourettes 23, 89 capacities will be managed by staff to members between Festival sessions Elliot, David 36, 73 McGregor, Judy 27, 81 available. aucklandartgallery.co.nz Toussaint, Steve 23, 60, 89 avoid disappointment. to enjoy complimentary wine, coffee, Elliott, Marianne 25, 73 McLauchlan, Gordon 30, 81 Tutu van Furth, Mpho 16, 22, 25, 89 light refreshments and newspapers. Ellis, Gavin 25, 73 McMillan, Frankie 22, 45, 81 3 Meredith, Courtney Sina 21, 38, 81 Vaughan, Rebecca 13, 14, 18, 26, 29, 89 Auckland Town Hall BOOKSTALL Patrons’ packs including tickets, Enright, Anne 16, 18, 43, 73 Queen Street. Parking available Espiner, Guyon 35, 73 Mora, Jim 30, 81 von Randow, Tyl 38, 89 lanyards and wristbands can be Waipara, Zak 7, 12, 89 at Aotea Centre and other nearby The Festival has its own dedicated Faludi, Susan 15, 30, 36, 74 Moran, Warren 14, 61, 81 bookstalls where you can purchase collected from the Festival Information Farr, Tracy 36, 74 Morey, Kelly Ana 22, 31, 81 Walker, Geoff 17, 89 locations. aucklandlive.co.nz Walsh, Frances 23, 30, 89 books by our 2017 writers. These are Desk if you haven’t received them Ferguson, Catriona 30, 36, 74 Morgan, Josh 12, 42, 82 prior to the Festival. 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