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9 INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHIES – she has gone on not only to master EOIN COLFER reading and writing but to complete FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT a B.A.Sc. in Child Studies from the IRELAND WWW.WRITERSFESTIVAL.CO.NZ University of Guelph and a Master’s degree in School Psychology from – 2012 PROGRAMME – the University of Toronto. She is the LEMON ANDERSEN creator of the Arrowsmith Program and School, both of which make UNITED STATES / PUERTO RICO use of cognitive programs based on

the principles of neuroplasticity to change both the brain’s capacity to learn and the lives of the children who

use them. Her book The Woman Who Artemis Fowl creator Eoin Colfer was a Changed Her Brain (2012) recounts both teacher in Ireland until 2000 when he her own astonishing story and the secured the largest ever advance for a PLACES fascinating stories of others who have children’s novel by an unknown author.

grappled with similar neurological Eight books later, total Artemis Fowl challenges. Supported by Harper Collins. title sales now exceed a staggering 4.5 Lemon Andersen’s astonishing barbaraarrowsmithyoung.com million copies in the UK and Ireland

biography is testament to the resilience and over 18 million worldwide. He has of the human spirit and the power of won the WH Smith ‘People’s Choice’ language to change lives. Born in the Children’s Book of the Year Award (2002)

OTHER SEBASTIAN BARRY projects of Brooklyn, New York, to a and The Children’s Book of the Year at

Puerto Rican mother and Norwegian IRELAND the British Book Awards, and has been father who met in a methadone clinic, shortlisted for several other prestigious split up when he was very young and children’s book awards. In 2008, Colfer

both died of AIDS, Andersen had a was chosen to write the sixth novel in harsh early life and ended up with a The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy long conviction list, eventually serving series after the tragic death of creator

FROM time in Rikers Prison. It was there he Douglas Adams – the resulting book first started writing poetry, going on And Another Thing… was published in to win a Tony Award alongside his 2009. He also penned the crime novel Def Poetry Jam co-performers and Plugged (2011). Supported by Penguin Books. presenting an autobiographical theatre Award-winning Sebastian Barry is eoincolfer.com piece at New York’s Public Theater, one of Ireland’s finest contemporary produced by legendary filmmaker writers. Born in Dublin in 1955, Spike Lee. The memoir of his life, his plays include The Steward of RODDY DOYLE County of Kings, was published in 2009. Christendom (1995) and The Pride of Parnell Street (2008) alongside the IRELAND accomplished novels The Whereabouts BARBARA of Eneas McNulty (1998), Annie Dunne (2002), A Long Long Way (2005), The ARROWSMITH YOUNG Secret Scripture (2008) and On Canaan’s Side (2011). A Long Long Way (2005) was CANADA shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International IMPAC Prize, and was the Dublin: One City One Book for 2007. The Secret Scripture won the Costa Book of the Year award, Consummate writer Roddy Doyle is the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the the author of nine novels including: Independent Booksellers Prize and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993) for which the James Tait Black Memorial Prize he won the 1993 Booker Prize; The for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Commitments (1987) which was adapted – INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHIES – Man Booker Prize. Barry’s latest book, into the BAFTA award-winning film Barbara Arrowsmith Young is the On Canaan’s Side, was longlisted for the of the same name; the 2011 short story woman who literally changed her 2011 Man Booker Prize. collection Bullfighting; and Rory & Ita brain. Born with severe learning (2002), a memoir of his parents. He has disabilities – she read and wrote written five books for children and has everything backward, had trouble contributed to a variety of publications processing concepts, regularly got lost including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and was physically uncoordinated Metro Eireann and several anthologies.

10 11 Doyle’s plays include Brownbread, as nationally and internationally for the MICHAEL HASTINGS series also in development. In 2011 Krauss adroitly crosses the chasm KATHY LETTE well as a co-adaptation of The Woman rest of the decade. Since 1981 he has James wrote the standalone work Perfect between science and popular culture. who Walked into Doors and a reworked lived in . His books include UNITED STATES People. James is the 2011-12 chair of the Foundation Professor in the School ENGLAND / AUSTRALIA version of The Playboy of the Western The Autobiography of my Father (1992), UK Crime Writers Association, one of of Earth and Space Exploration and World. He also wrote the screenplays for The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont three writers to be celebrated as Author director of the Origins Project at The Snapper, The Van, Family and When (1999) and Chronicle of the Unsung (2004) of the Day at the 2012 London Book Arizona State University, he is the Brendan Met Trudy. He lives and works which won the Biography Category at Fair and is an established film producer author of more than 300 scientific in Dublin. roddydoyle.ie the 2005 Montana NZ Book Awards. and scriptwriter. He divides his time publications and nine books including Subsequently he published Luca Antara between London and Sussex. international bestsellers The Physics of (2006), Waimarino County (2007), The Supported by Pan MacMillan Publishers. Star Trek (1995), Quantum Man: Richard GEOFF DYER Supply Party and Zone of the Marvellous peterjames.com Feynman’s Life in Science (2010) and this (both 2009) and, most recently, year’s A Universe from Nothing. Krauss ENGLAND Dark Night – Walking with McCahon Michael Hastings is an American has won numerous science awards Livewire international bestselling (2011), which imagines the walking journalist and writer currently working OLIVER JEFFERS and is a regular commentator on radio writer Kathy Lette was born in pilgrimage McCahon may have taken as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and television, as well as contributing Australia and now lives in London. when he went missing in Sydney for magazine and most famous for writing UNITED STATES / to publications including the New She rose to fame in 1979 as the young 24 hours in 1984. Edmond has since the story that brought down General York Times, Wall Street Journal and New co-writer of Puberty Blues, a teen novel completed a biographical study of the Stanley McChrystal. Hastings was Scientist. He is particularly active in which was made into both a movie and water colour painters Rex Battarbee Newsweek’s Baghdad Correspondent issues of science and society and heavily a television miniseries. After working and Albert Namatjira. Supported by from 2002-2008, during which time he involved in the current science-in- as a newspaper columnist in Sydney the Australia Council for the Arts. wrote I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern education debate in the United States. and New York, and a sitcom writer for War Story (2008), about the death of his Lawrence Krauss appears at the Festival, in Columbia Pictures, Lette produced a Ranging across an eclectic range of fiancée Andrea Parhamovich. He has also partnership with The University of Auckland, series of novels including Girls Night subject matter that includes jazz, JEFFREY EUGENIDES been a regular contributor to Gentlemen’s as one of the University’s 2012 Hood Fellows. Out (1993), Nip ‘n’ Tuck (2002), Dead Sexy photography, film, art, war and travel, Quarterly. His 2010 article ‘The Runaway (2004) and How To Kill Your Husband Geoff Dyer is considered one of the UNITED STATES General’ not only resulted in the Critically acclaimed Oliver Jeffers writes (and Other Handy Household Hints) (2007) very best writers working in the UK removal of General McChrystal from and illustrates irresistible, witty picture LUKA LESSON which has recently been staged as an today. He is the author of Jeff in Venice, his Afghanistan command by President books for all ages, including How To opera by Victorian Opera. A regular Death in Varanasi (2009) and three Barack Obama but won Hastings a Catch A Star (2004), Lost and Found (2004), AUSTRALIA television commentator, Lette is an other novels. He has also written a George Polk Award for Journalism. The Incredible Book Eating Boy (2006) and ambassador for Women and Children critical study of artist and author Amongst subsequent pieces that this year’s series The Hueys. Jeffers First, Plan International and The John Berger and six other non-fiction include an article on the war strategy grew up in Belfast and studied visual White Ribbon Alliance and has also books including But Beautiful: A Book of General David Petraeus, he has also communications, graduating with first completed a stint as writer-in-residence About Jazz (1991), which was awarded recently written an extensive profile of class honours from The University of at London’s Savoy Hotel. Her latest the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Wikileaks’ Julian Assange. Hastings Ulster in 2001. He has since exhibited book is The Boy Who Fell To Earth (2012). Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Arguably the leading American fiction lives in Vermont. Supported by Hachette. his art internationally and won several kathylette.com Lawrence (1997), a National Book Critics writer of his generation, Pulitzer Prize awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Circle Award finalist. His latest book winner Jeffrey Eugenides is a Professor Book Prize Gold Award, the Blue Peter Zona (2012), a meditation on the 1970’s of Creative Writing at Princeton PETER JAMES Book of the Year Award and the Irish One of the most dynamic spoken word A.D. MILLER Tarkovsky film Stalker, is currently University. His first novel, The Virgin Children’s Book of the Year. He is a co- performers on the circuit and current mesmerising critics. Dyer lives in Suicides (2003) has been translated into ENGLAND founder of the art collective OAR and was Australian Poetry Slam Champion, ENGLAND London. geoffdyer.com 34 languages and made into a feature the official World Book Day Illustrator Luka Lesson is a writer, hip-hop artist film. In 2003, he received The Pulitzer in 2007. He currently lives in Brooklyn, and co-director of The Centre for Poetics Prize and the WELT-Literaturpreis of New York. Supported by HarperCollins. and Justice based in Melbourne. He MARTIN EDMOND Germany and was shortlisted for the oliverjeffers.com has a first-class honours degree in National Book Critics Circle Award, Indigenous Studies and has previously AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND Dublin IMPAC Literary Award and the taught that subject at Monash Prix Medicis of France for his novel LAWRENCE KRAUSS University. Lesson has been active for Middlesex (2002). Eugenides’ fiction has many years in utilising hip-hop and appeared in numerous publications UNITED STATES / CANADA poetry as a form of self-determination including The New Yorker, The Paris Crime writer extraordinaire Peter and raising awareness for marginalised 2011 Man Booker Prize shortlisted Review and Best American Short Stories. James is one of the UK’s most treasured young people through community writer A.D. Miller studied literature at His other awards include fellowships crime and thriller novelists. His Roy development projects. He has performed Cambridge and Princeton before going from the Guggenheim Foundation and Grace detective novels have sold over alongside performance poetry stars on to work as a television producer the National Endowment for the Arts, a 11 million copies worldwide and been including 2007 Auckland Writers & and then an Economist journalist. From Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Henry translated into 34 languages. The latest Readers Festival hit Shane Koyczan and 2004 to 2007 he was the magazine’s Martin Edmond is a crafter of highly D. Vursell Memorial Award from the Dead Man’s Grip (2011) went straight 2012 Festival guest Lemon Andersen. Moscow correspondent, travelling imaginative and thoughtful work. American Academy of Arts and Letters. onto the Sunday Times hardback His first album Please Resist Me was widely across Russia and the former Born in Ohakune he grew up in small Eugenides’ latest novel, The Marriage Plot, bestseller list at No 1 and the next published in February 2012. Soviet Union. He returned to England North Island towns and, in 1974, joined was published to critical acclaim in 2011. instalment Not Dead Yet is due mid-2012, Public intellectual, leading cosmologist lukalesson.com to become The Economist’s British editor theatre troupe Red Mole, touring with a television adaptation of the and bestselling writer, Lawrence M. and now works as a writer-at-large

12 13 while crafting his next novel. Miller CHANDRAN NAIR the Carnegie Medal and EMILY RODDA 2009, ten years of research into CHARLOTTE WOOD is also the author of the acclaimed children’s fiction prize. His acclaimed evolutionary biology, combined with family history The Earl of Petticoat Lane HONG KONG novels include Keeper (2003), Tamar AUSTRALIA artistic imagination and creativity, AUSTRALIA (2006) which was shortlisted for the (2005) and The Penalty (2006). Peet has culminated in the publication of Them Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for also collaborated with his wife, Elspeth + Us: How Neanderthal Predation Created Non-Fiction. Moscow-based ‘moral Graham, on the Kate Greenaway Medal Modern Humans, which proposes a thriller’ Snowdrops is his first novel and shortlisted title Cloud Tea Monkeys (2010). revolutionary new theory about the was shortlisted in 2011 for the Man His most recent book, Life: An Unexploded origins of our species. He is a member of Booker Prize, the CWA Gold Dagger Diagram (2011) is a brilliant coming- the Independent Scholars Association Award and the Galaxy New Writer of of-age story set against the backdrop of Australia and lives in Sydney. He is the Year Book Award and is a finalist in of the Cold War which has garnered also an avid backpacker, having trekked the Los Angeles Times Book Awards. impressive reviews. 2011 Auckland through 37 countries documenting snowdropsthenovel.com Consumptionomics author Chandran Writers & Readers Festival guest Meg Emily Rodda is one of Australia’s most his journeys with photography. Charlotte Wood has been described Nair has lived and worked in Asia, Rosoff called Life a “subtle, minutely loved and successful children’s authors Vendramini hopes to publish his new as “one of the most intelligent and Europe and Africa and, until 2004, was observed novel with a huge heart and and has been a fulltime writer since work The Second Evolution: The Final Piece compassionate novelists in Australia” CAROLINE MOOREHEAD the chairman of the Environmental a bold historical sweep”. Peet resides 1994. A former publisher and editor of of the Darwinian Puzzle in 2012. Supported (The Age), and “one of [Australia’s] finest Resources Management Consultancy in Devon with his wife and their three The Australian Women’s Weekly, she also by the Australia Council for the Arts. and most chameleonic writers” (The ENGLAND for the Asia-Pacific. He is the founder children. Supported by Walker Books. writes adult fiction under her real name, Australian). Her fiction work includes and CEO of The Global Institute For Jennifer Rowe. Rodda has written or The Submerged Cathedral (2004) for Tomorrow (GIFT), an independent, pan- co-authored more than fifty books for JESMYN WARD which she was shortlisted for the Asian think tank based in Hong Kong. STELLA RIMINGTON children, ranging from picture books to Miles Franklin Award, the bestselling The organisation engages business YA novels. She has won the Children’s UNITED STATES novel The Children (2007), and 2011’s leaders with the shift in economic ENGLAND Book Council Australia Award for well-reviewed Animal People. She has power from the West to the East and has Book of the Year (Younger Readers) an also edited an anthology of writings become a leading provider of executive unprecedented five times. Her Deltora about siblings by 12 of Australia’s education for the private, public and Quest series, published in 35 countries finest writers called Brothers & Sisters academic sectors. Since 2005, Nair has and translated into 29 languages, has (2009). Alongside her fiction, Wood Caroline Moorehead OBE is a Fellow been an adjunct professor at Hong Kong sold close to 16 million copies. In 2011 is passionate about food. Her cookery of the Royal Society of Literature, a University, a consultant to governments she released the first of her new trilogy blog How To Shuck an Oyster has an distinguished human rights journalist and has undertaken international The Three Doors’ books, The Golden Door. enthusiastic following and her latest and a biographer whose books include speaking engagements including at The second instalment, The Silver Door, publication Love & Hunger: Thoughts biographies of Bertrand Russell, the Davos World Economic Forum will be released in 2012. Supported by the In 2011, Jesmyn Ward scooped the on the Gift of Food (2012) is a book of Freya Stark and Martha Gellhorn. AGM in 2012. In 2008, he co-founded Insider spy fiction doyenne Dame Stella Australia Council for the Arts. United States’ National Book Award contemplative essays about cooking. She has also written a number of Avantage Ventures, a boutique social Rimington joined MI5, the UK’s internal emilyrodda.com with just her second novel Salvage The She lives in Sydney with her husband. non-fiction pieces centred on human investment advisory firm also based security agency, in India in 1967. She Bones, a story of an African American Supported by the Australia Council for rights including Dunant’s Dream: in Hong Kong and in December 2010 began as a part time clerk and retired family in the days leading up to the Arts. charlottewood.com.au War, Switzerland and the History of the published Consumptionomics: Asia’s Role in 1996 as Director General, the first JENNIFER ROWE Hurricane Katrina which has some Red Cross (1999) and Human Cargo: A in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the woman to hold the post and the first resonances with her own life. Ward Journey Among Refugees (2005). Her Planet which was listed by both The Director General to be publicly named AUSTRALIA grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi and latest moving work A Train in Winter Globalist magazine and the Richard on appointment. Amongst other roles, received her MFA from the University of (2011) recounts the story of 230 French Dawkins Foundation as one of their top she has been on the board of Marks and See Emily Rodda profile above. Michigan where she won five Hopwood women of the Resistance sent to books of 2011. Supported by the Asia New Spencer and chairman of the Institute awards for essays, drama, and fiction. Auschwitz. Moorehead is a regular Zealand Foundation. of Cancer Research. She is currently a A Stegner Fellow at Stanford from reviewer for publications including Trustee of the charity Refuge which DANNY VENDRAMINI 2008-2010, she was named the 2010-11 the TLS, Literary Review, Telegraph, works against domestic violence, and a Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the Independent, Spectator and New York MAL PEET board member of the International Spy AUSTRALIA University of Mississippi. Her debut Review of Books. She has also served as a Museum in Washington DC. Rimington novel Where the Line Bleeds (2008) was an board member for a number of literary ENGLAND published her autobiography Open Essence magazine book club selection, a and human rights organisations. Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Black Caucus of the ALA Honor Award Director General of MI5 in 2001 and recipient and a finalist for both the utilised her intimate knowledge of spy VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and operations when writing her six highly the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. She popular Liz Carlyle novels, the latest of is currently an assistant professor of which is Rip Tide (2011). Creative Writing at the University of stellarimington.com South Alabama. jesmini.blogspot.com Danny Vendramini was born in Alice Springs in the Australian outback Mal Peet is a writer of exceptional talent and has worked as a theatre director, who has established himself as a strong TV producer and award-winning and distinctive voice in young adult film director and scriptwriter. 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Atihaunui Apaparangi, Ngäti Hauiti Writing Programme in 2010. Publishers and is the editor of the new ki Rata, Waitaha, Ngäti Mamoe, Ngai hinemoana.co.nz Mäori literary journal Ora Nui.

Tahu) takes up an eight week residency at the Writers’ Centre in May 2012. The 2001 winner of the Huia GRAHAM BEATTIE CHRIS BOURKE SHORES Short Story competition, she will work

on a short story collection during her Graham Beattie is a full-time book 2011 NZ Post Book Awards triple stay. Arahanga has extensive experience blogger and reviewer following a prize winner Chris Bourke is the as a writer and researcher of history, highly successful career as a publisher. author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of

heritage, natural history and Te Ao He is the former Managing Director/ New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964 Mäori and is currently working on Publisher of Penguin Books NZ (2010). Born in , Bourke a social history of fish and chips. and Scholastic NZ and continues has been the producer of Radio New

OUR a long involvement in the literary Zealand National’s Saturday Morning

community including judging for programme, the arts and books editor PENNY ASHTON the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, of the New Zealand Listener, and the Montana NZ Book Awards, BPA Book editor of Rip It Up. His first book was

Globe-trotting comedian, poet and Design Awards and BNZ Literary the music biography Crowded House: improviser Penny Ashton is a multiple Awards. Beattie’s Book Blog is one of Something So Strong (1997). award nominee who recently won Best the country’s most read, receiving bluesmokebook.wordpress.com

FROM Performance by an International Poet in excess of 10,000 visitors a week. at the London Farrago Awards 2011. beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com The inspiration behind the Festival’s Poetry Idol, Ashton has performed at the Glastonbury Festival, reported from CAROLE BEU World-renowned Nabokov scholar Brian Miss Universe in Las Vegas, rocked a Boyd is a distinguished professor of New York poetry club and sold out the Carole Beu’s life is immersed in the English at The University of Auckland. Tokoroa Little Theatre. She has also world of books and reading. She is His writing, which has appeared in represented New Zealand in both poetry the owner of The Women’s Bookshop 17 languages and won awards on four and Theatresports. hotpink.co.nz on Ponsonby Road, a member of the continents, includes explorations from board of Booksellers New Zealand and Homer to the present, from epics to a trustee of the Auckland Writers & comics, from Russia and America to AUCKLAND THEATRE Readers Festival. Beu also regularly Brazil and New Zealand, from Horton reviews books on the radio and Hears a Who! to Hamlet. Boyd explores COMPANY for Triangle Television’s Let’s Talk literature both in close-up and in its programme. womensbookshop.co.nz wide relations with art, biology, culture, Established in 1992, Auckland Theatre psychology, religion and science. Company is one of New Zealand’s leading theatre companies. ATC presents a TOM BISHOP mainbill season of seven to eight plays RUSSELL BROWN each year and is the only theatre company Tom Bishop is Professor of English at in New Zealand with a dedicated literary the University of Auckland, where he Russell Brown is a blogging veteran. unit. ATC Literary actively nurtures teaches and studies Shakespeare and He was the first blogger to receive a New Zealand playwrights and their work, Renaissance literature. He teaches a Qantas Media Award, for which his – NEW ZEALAND BIOGRAPHIES – and supports the development of 10 regular course, ‘Stages of Religion’, on group blog site Public Address and former New Zealand plays each year. the English Reformation and drama, and New Zealand Listener column have also has published work on Shakespeare’s use been honoured. The founding host of of the Bible and of Foxe’s famous Book of both ’s Mediawatch HINEMOANA BAKER Martyrs. Previously he was the director and TVNZ7’s Media7, Brown is the editor of a Center for the Humanities in the of the book Great New Zealand Argument: Hinemoana Baker (Ngäti Raukawa, United States. Ideas About Ourselves (2005), which - Ngäti Toa Rangatira, Te Ati Awa, Kai collected works by ,

18 19 Robin Hyde, Bill Pearson and others. 95bFM. Christie has had a life-long global literatures and Irish literature in DORIS DE PONT music legends and new experiences, Children’s Book of the Year Award and He has 7,385 followers on Twitter. passion for astronomy and the universe the undergraduate programme, and the filming in over 30 countries to date. Prime Minister’s Award for Literary publicaddress.net and considers it an amazing stroke of novels of at postgraduate Doris de Pont is an internationally Achievement. His much-loved novels luck to be alive just when a scientific level. She is the author of The Frame recognised fashion designer, a include Plumb (1995), Going West (1992), understanding of the universe is finally Function: An Inside-Out Guide to the Novels foundation trustee of the NZ Fashion BRIAN EDWARDS Prowlers (1987), Live Bodies (1998) and KATHRYN BURNETT within our grasp. of Janet Frame (2011) and co-editor of Museum and the editor of Black: The Blindsight (2005). He has also written a Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism History of Black in Fashion, Society and Brian Edwards is one of New Zealand’s number of children’s novels, the most Kathryn Burnett is a screenwriter, on Janet Frame (2009). Cronin’s current Culture in New Zealand (2012). de Pont most respected broadcasters and recent being the Salt trilogy. Gee lives playwright, published author, script MIKE CHUNN research focuses on contemporary Irish completed a social anthropology degree writers. His career spans every branch in Nelson. editor and development consultant literature and culture. and lived in the Netherlands before of the media – columnist, author, radio who has primarily worked in film A former member of Split Enz and opening her first Auckland retail store and television interviewer, media and television for over 17 years with Citizen Band, Chunn is the founder and in 1985. Her garments are held in the commentator and consultant. Major LLOYD GEERING credits including Street Legal, The Strip, CEO of the Play It Strange Trust which RHYS DARBY collections of the Auckland Museum, achievements include inventing Fair Amazing Extraordinary Friends and Love implements music programmes for Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of Go, resolving a major industrial dispute Lloyd Geering CBE ONZ is New Birds. A Qantas Media award-winning New Zealand schools. From 1992 to 2003 Comedian, actor and ex-NZ army New Zealand and the National Gallery on television, media advising to four Zealand’s best-known commentator columnist, she is also an inspiring and Chunn was Director of New Zealand soldier Rhys Darby is renowned for of Victoria. fashionmuseum.org.nz New Zealand Prime Ministers, and on theological issues, with a lifelong entertaining creativity facilitator who Operations for APRA (Australasian his characterisations and askew interviewing many of the world’s leading commitment to grappling with the creates and runs BrainStorm classes Performing Right Association). He has observations, as well as for his role as thinkers, writers and achievers during pressing concerns of contemporary and workshops. published several books including the Murray in Flight of the Conchords. He PAUL DIAMOND his five year stint as host of National religion. A Presbyterian minister, Split Enz biography Stranger Than Fiction has performed stand-up from Iceland Radio’s popular Top of the Morning show. he turned to theological teaching in (1992). Supported by APRA/AMCOS. to the Falklands and has released two Paul Diamond (Ngäti Hauä, Te Rarawa 1956 and is an Emeritus Professor at JENNY CARLYON playitstrange.org.nz DVDs. Currently based in Los Angeles, and Ngäpuhi) is a writer, historian and Victoria University of Wellington. he returns home in April to launch his broadcaster and the current Curator, SAM ELWORTHY His autobiography Wrestling with God Napier-born Jenny Carlyon completed debut novel This Way To Spaceship and Mäori at the Alexander Turnbull was published in 2006. The Lloyd Geering her BA in History at the Université ROBIN CONGREVE present a live stand-up show. Library. He has written two books: Sam Elworthy is Director of Auckland Reader, edited by Paul Morris and Mike de Lyon III in France before moving Twitter: @rhysiedarby A Fire in Your Belly: Mäori Leaders Speak University Press. He chairs the Michael Grimshaw, was published in 2007. to Auckland in 1981. She has a Ph.D. Lawyer, arts patron and tax governance (2003) and Makereti: Taking Mäori to the King Writers’ Centre and the New in History from the University of specialist Dr. Robin Congreve received World (2007). Diamond is a NZ Book Zealand Post Book Awards Governance Auckland and has worked as an an LL.M. with first-class honours VAUGHN DAVIS Council board member, has judged the Group. Before returning to New Zealand NEVIL GIBSON independent historian on a variety of from Victoria University before being NZ Post Book Awards and is currently five years ago he completed a history projects. She is the co-author of Urban awarded a postgraduate scholarship to Vaughn Davis owns Auckland social writing a book about Wanganui mayor doctorate and worked for ten years in Nevil Gibson is the Editor-in-Chief of the Village: A History of Ponsonby, Freemans Oxford University, and completing his media and advertising business The and attempted murder convict science publishing and as Editor-in- weekly business paper National Business Bay and St Mary’s Bay (2008) and A doctorate at the University of London. Goat Farm. In 2010 he wrote New Charles Mackay. Chief at Princeton University Press. He Review, having been appointed to the Fine Prospect: A History of Remuera, He has been a senior law lecturer, a Zealand’s first book on social media, is the author of a history of student life position in 1995 after six years as editor. Meadowbank and St Johns (2011). partner at Russell McVeagh, and has Tweet this Book!, which has been read by , Ritual Song of Defiance (1990). He has had over 40 years’ experience in served on the boards of numerous private, over 25,000 people worldwide (thanks JOAN DRUETT journalism in print and radio, including public and arts companies. He divides his in part to its social media-based working with The Dominion Post, The Press JACQ CARTER time between London and Auckland. promotion and distribution model). Joan Druett is the award-winning DICK FRIZZELL and Radio New Zealand. Vaughn’s thoughts on social media author of 20 published books, including Jacq Carter (Ngäti Awa) is an Auckland appear regularly in the National Business the bestseller Island of the Lost (2007), New Zealand artist Dick Frizzell writer and poet who has been published Review and Idealog Magazine and he which is currently being made into trained at the JOLISA GRACEWOOD in a number of anthologies including discusses the topic every week (along a film. A maritime historian and an School of Fine Arts, studying under Whetu Moana (2003), Mauri Ola (2010) Michael Corballis is Emeritus Professor with advertising and aeroplanes) expert on pirates and women at sea artists such as Rudi Gopas and Russell Jolisa Gracewood, a freelance literary and Ora Nui (2011). After ten years of of Psychology at The University of on Kiwi FM. thegoatfarm.wordpress.com in the age of sail, she has appeared Clark. Subsequently he worked in editor and book reviewer, recently living on Waiheke, Carter has recently Auckland. He works in cognitive many times in television programmes, advertising for many years, gaining returned to New Zealand after sixteen returned to Auckland and now lives in neuroscience, which has to do with such as A&E Biography and the History an appreciation for the characters that years in the United States. She has a Ph.D. Mt Wellington. She is the mother of two how mental processes are represented Channel. Her latest book is Tupaia (2010), frequently feature in his ‘expressionist in Comparative Literature from Cornell children and is currently tutoring in in the brain. His main interests are in the astonishing story of the Tahitian pop’ work. Frizzell has also contributed University and writes about books and English and Mäori. language, brain asymmetry and human Arts Foundation laureate Kate De Goldi navigator who sailed with Captain to a number of books including It’s All authors in the New Zealand Listener, evolution. Corballis holds a doctorate writes and reviews fiction for all ages. Cook on the Endeavour. joan.druett.gen.nz About The Image (2011) which collates Metro and elsewhere. Gracewood has from McGill University in Montreal, Her many awards include the American commentary on some of his favourite taught non-fiction writing at Yale GRANT CHRISTIE Canada, and his most recent book is Express and Katherine Mansfield New Zealand paintings. University, co-edited two collections Pieces of Mind: 21 Short Walks Around the Memorial short story awards and the NICK DWYER of Japanese literature for beginners, Dr. Grant Christie Ph.D., MNZM, Human Brain, published in 2011. New Zealand Post Children’s Book of and blogs at www.publicaddress.net. FRASNZ is president of the Auckland the Year Award (twice), most recently Nick Dwyer is a DJ, television producer, MAURICE GEE Astronomical Society and vice- for The 10pm Question (2008) for which presenter and the current breakfast president of the Royal Astronomical JAN CRONIN she also won the LUCHS Prize 2011 and host for George FM, with 17 years of Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand’s PAULA GREEN Society of NZ. He also heads a research the Corine International Book Prize radio experience behind him. He has best-known fiction writers. His programme searching for extra-solar Dr. Jan Cronin is a senior lecturer in Young Readers Award. She is currently a passion for music, history, language numerous awards include the Wattie Paula Green has published seven poetry planets at Stardome Observatory and the Department of English at The writing a biography of children’s book and culture and has trekked all over Award, Deutz Medal for Fiction, New collections including two for children: speaks regularly about science on University of Auckland. She teaches collector and archivist Susan Price. the world in search of eclectic beats, Zealand Fiction Award, New Zealand Flamingo Bendalingo and Macaroni Moon.

20 21 She reviews poetry for The NZ Herald Embrace in March 2012. Supported by affairs. He has published widely on LAURAINE JACOBS FIONA KIDMAN TOBY MANHIRE and visits schools regularly. Co-written APRA/AMCOS. nathanhaines.com New Zealand’s foreign relations with with Harry Ricketts, her latest book 99 America, Asia, Australia and the South Former President of the NZ Guild of Dame Fiona Kidman has written more Toby Manhire is an Auckland-based Ways into New Zealand Poetry (2010) was Pacific and has recently completed a Food Writers, Lauraine Jacobs is the than thirty books including novels, short columnist and blogger for the New shortlisted for the 2010 NZ Post Book SCOTT HAMILTON project on the country’s Provincial food columnist for the New Zealand stories and two volumes of memoir: Zealand Listener and a Guardian Awards. She has recently edited Dear Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan Listener as well as an internationally At the End of Darwin Road (2008) and correspondent. From 2000 to 2010 he Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems (2012). Scott Hamilton has a Ph.D. in involving consultations with Defence respected food and wine writer and Beside the Dark Pool (2009). Her latest book worked at the Guardian in London, Sociology from The University of Force officers and workshops in the author/editor of eight cookbooks, is The Trouble with Fire, a collection of for the final three years as editor of Auckland and is the author of three Canberra and Prague. He is currently including The Confident Cook (2006) and long fictions. Kidman, who is a Dame the comment section. He edited the NICKY HAGER books, including the poetry collection monitoring the lively debate on New the travel book Matakana (2008). Trained Commander of the New Zealand Order book Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange’s Feeding the Gods (2011) inspired by Zealand’s free trade negotiations with at the London Cordon Bleu School, she of Merit and a Chevalier of the French War on Secrecy (2011), and The Arab Nicky Hager is an investigative writer Kendrick Smithyman photographs, countries including Taiwan. has been writing on all matters culinary Legion of Honour, has won many awards Spring: Rebellion, Revolution & A New specialising in politics, intelligence a critical edition of previously unseen for more than 20 years, including as food including the Prime Minister’s Award for World Order, a collection of Guardian and military issues. His five books have poems by Smithyman, and The Crisis editor of Fashion Quarterly and Cuisine Fiction in 2011. fionakidman.com journalism published in early 2012. covered subjects including the world- of Theory (2011), a study of the British magazines. laurainejacobs.co.nz wide US intelligence system Echelon, historian and politician E.P. Thompson. anti-environmental public relations, Hamilton maintains the blog Stuart Hoar is a highly experienced RACHAEL KING ANTHONY MCCARTEN politics inside the National Party (The readingthemaps.blogspot.com which has playwright, screenplay writer, radio STEPHANIE JOHNSON Hollow Men, 2006), and most recently, attracted a quarter of a million visitors dramatist, librettist and novelist. Rachael King is the author of two novels Anthony McCarten is an internationally Other People’s Wars (2011), about in four years. He was the 2007 Katherine Mansfield Stephanie Johnson is the author of for adults: Magpie Hall (2009) and The successful novelist, playwright and New Zealand’s military and intelligence Fellow and his work has been two collections of poetry, three Sound of Butterflies (2007), which won director/writer now based in London. involvement in the Afghanistan and broadcast and performed both in collections of short stories and nine the award for best first novel at the 2007 His 2006 novel Death of a Superhero won Iraq Wars. He lectures on journalism SIOBHAN HARVEY New Zealand and internationally. novels. A founding trustee of the Montana NZ Book Awards. Red Rocks, a the Austrian Youth Literature Prize, and is the New Zealand representative Recent accomplishments include Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, novel for children set among the seals was a finalist in the German Youth in the International Consortium of Siobhan Harvey’s works include the writing Radio New Zealand’s World and its acting artistic director for part on Wellington’s wild south coast, will be Literature Prize and was made into an Investigative Journalists. poetry collection Lost Relatives (2011) Play for 2010, winning the Adam New of 2011, her latest book The Open World published in June 2012. Her work has been award-winning film. 2012 brings the nickyhager.info and the book of literary criticismWords Zealand Play Award in 2010 and having is published in April 2012. Johnson has translated into eight languages. King lives publication of both his follow-up novel Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Bright Star produced in London. won the Montana Medal for Fiction, the in Christchurch. rachael-king.com In The Absence of Heroes and Brilliance, Discussion. She is poetry editor of Takahe Playwrights’ Award and dealing with the life of Thomas A. JOEL HAINES and was runner-up in the 2011 a Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, and Edison, inventor of the light bulb. Essay Competition and the 2011 has been published internationally. ALEKSANDRA LANE Joel Haines (brother of Nathan), is a Kathleen Grattan Sequence of Poems’ respected composer and musician best Award. Harvey’s ‘Poet’s Page’, including Dylan Horrocks is the author of the Birds of Clay (2012) is Aleksandra GREG MCGEE known for his composition for screen, selected texts and recordings from Lost graphic novel Hicksville (1998) and the DAREN KAMALI Lane’s first book in English, after two including commercials, documentary, Relatives, has just been launched on The comic book series Pickle and Atlas, and published in Serbian. Lane moved to Greg McGee is perhaps best known for television (particularly the score for Poetry Archive (UK), directed by Sir has written for DC Comics, including Pacific performance poet Daren New Zealand in 1996 and completed the play Foreskins’ Lament (1980). His Outrageous Fortune) and film (Oscar Andrew Motion. Hunter: the Age of and Batgirl. Kamali is an author, youth worker her MA in Creative Writing at Victoria television credits, for which he has contender This Way of Life). He is Horrocks won an Eisner Award in and co-founder of the South Auckland University’s Institute of Modern Letters won several awards, include Erebus: extremely versatile with an extensive 2002 (Talent Deserving of Wider Poets' Collective. Of Fijian/Wallis and in 2010, receiving the Biggs Poetry The Aftermath, Fallout, Street Legal, and proficiency in all contemporary genres CAROL HIRSCHFELD Recognition) and has been nominated Futuna descent, he migrated to New Prize. Her poems have been published Doves of War. Under the pseudonym Alix and, as one of this country’s leading for a number of Ignatz Awards, Zealand in 1992. In 2011 he completed in Jacket2, Sport, Turbine, Takahe, Snorkel, Bosco, he won the 2010 Ngaio Marsh session musicians, has performed with Current General Manager Production Harvey Awards and Prix d’Alph’Art. a Diploma in Creative Writing at MIT Side Stream and Swamp. She lives in Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel a wide variety of musicians including and Operations for Mäori Television, He is currently working on two new and was Student of the Year. His first Wellington and is studying for a Ph.D. with Cut & Run (2009) and was a finalist the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Carol Hirschfeld has worked for more graphic novels and runs the website book Tales, Poems and Songs from the in English at Massey University. in 2011 with Slaughter Falls. His first Supported by APRA/AMCOS. than 25 years as a news reporter, hicksvillecomics.com. Underwater World was launched in 2011. novel published in his own name, Love joelhaines.co.nz presenter, director, producer and darenkamali.com & Money, comes out in April 2012. executive producer. Prior to joining FINLAY MACDONALD Mäori Television in 2009, Hirschfeld NATHAN HAINES spent 11 years working at TV3, ANNE KENNEDY Finlay Macdonald has worked as GORDON MCLAUCHLAN including co-presenting the channel’s Witi Ihimaera DCNZM QSM, is a a journalist, editor, publisher and With nine solo albums – four released major news bulletin. She is a passionate novelist, short-story writer, playwright, Anne Kennedy is a novelist, award- broadcaster in New Zealand since 1986. Gordon McLauchlan has been a internationally – a multitude of awards advocate for books and reading and scriptwriter, anthologist, librettist and winning poet and short-story writer, He was editor of the New Zealand Listener freelance journalist, writer and active and guest spots on hundreds of releases, has been a ‘Reading Role Model’ creative writing teacher. He has edited editor, literary critic and scriptwriter. from 1998 to 2003, commissioning member of the literary community Nathan Haines (brother of Joel) has been Ambassador for NZ Book Month. eight anthologies of contemporary Wellington-born Kennedy currently editor at Penguin New Zealand from since 1973. He has served as a national at the forefront of modern soul, jazz Mäori literature, including Get On lives in Hawai’i and teaches creative 2003 to 2005, and a weekly columnist vice-president of the New Zealand and electronic music for over 20 years. The Waka (2007) and has completed writing at the University of Hawai’i, for the Sunday Star Times from 2003 to Journalists’ Association, president and He has played many major festivals STEPHEN HOADLEY a screenplay adaptation of his novel Manoa. She weaves the influences 2011. He contributes to television, radio President of Honour of the NZSA (PEN and clubs, including a 2011 sell out The Matriarch (1986). 2011 saw the and images of music, art, film and her and print media, teaches journalism at NZ Inc.), a member of the executive of show at London’s Ronnie Scotts. Haines Associate Professor Stephen Hoadley publication of his new novel The Catholic upbringing into her work. AUT, and lives in Auckland with his wife International PEN, the foundation chair returned to his jazz acoustic roots with is a teacher, political analyst and Parihaka Woman and a new edition of Her new poetry book The Darling North – broadcaster Carol Hirschfeld – and their of the Michael King Writers’ Studio the release of his latest album The Poet’s media commentator on international the story collection Pounamu Pounamu. will be published in May 2012. two children. Trust, and a longstanding member of

22 23 the Frank Sargeson Trust. 2012 sees novels for adults. Morris’ latest book including The Denniston Rose (2003), a weekday morning radio show in ZANE SCARBOROUGH and Colin McCahon. Simpson is the the publication of The Passionless Rangatira (2011) brings colonial New its sequel Heart of Coal (2004) and the Wellington for Newstalk ZB as well director of the Holloway Press in The People Revisited. Zealand and Victorian England to life Whanganui novel Landings (2008), as writing columns for Metro and the Zane Scarborough is a member of the University of Auckland. His recent through the eyes of Ngäti Wai Rangatira have all been New Zealand No. 1 Dominion Post. Previously he was the South Auckland Poets’ Collective, publications include Fantastica: The Paratene Te Manu. paula-morris.com bestsellers. In 2009 she received the co-presenter of Morning Report on Radio won third place in the 2011 National World of Leo Bensemann (2011). JOSIE MCNAUGHT NZ Post Mansfield Fellowship and in New Zealand for fourteen years and Poetry Slam and was a finalist in 2011 she and her husband published has also worked as a news reporter and the Poetry Idol competition at the Josie McNaught has been a journalist, DIANA MORROW the children’s book and CD of songs The a political correspondent. In 2001 he Auckland Writers & Readers Festival SARAH SINCLAIR writer, TV reporter and director/ Very Important Godwit. Amongst many was the recipient of the 2001 European 2011. Scarborough is a manager of producer with a strong arts focus for Canadian-born Diana Morrow has activities, Pattrick is a board member of Union’s Visiting Journalist Award. Attitude programmes for schools Chair of the Sustainable Business 20 years. She is currently the visual arts a Ph.D in History and is a professional the NZ Book Council. and has a background in community Network Board, Sarah Sinclair is a civil writer for Metro, delivers a column for historian who has worked for the volunteering and youth work. He is engineer and manager with 20 years’ the quarterly Art News New Zealand, Waitangi Tribunal, the Office of Treaty LILY RICHARDS currently studying towards a graduate consultancy experience in New Zealand pops up regularly on National Radio, Settlements and as an interpretive COLIN PEACOCK diploma in not-for-profit management. and the United Kingdom working in writes for magazines and newspapers in writer for museums and art galleries. Lily Richards is the brand manager zanescarborough.com the areas of flood risk, environmentally New Zealand and internationally, and She is the co-author of Urban Village: Colin Peacock is the presenter and for Unity Books Auckland, a freelance sensitive solutions and adapting to provides arts commentary to TV One’s the Story of Ponsonby, Freemans Bay & producer of Radio New Zealand’s essayist, reviewer for Metro magazine climate change. She currently works Breakfast. In 2007 she won a Qantas St Mary’s Bay (2006) and A Fine Prospect: Mediawatch programme. He studied and blogger at pageeyes.wordpress.com IAIN SHARP for SKM, an engineering and science Award for reporting on the Goldie art A History of Remuera, Meadowbank & journalism at the University of where she explores the impact good consultancy, is a member of the fraud case. josiemcnaught.com St Johns (2011) and has co-edited two Canterbury and worked for eight years books can have beyond their ability to Glasgow-born Iain Sharp has lived Innovation Council and a Fellow of other books. in the UK as a producer at BBC World TV, merely entertain. She is also the book in New Zealand since he was eight, the Institution of Civil Engineers. the national radio network 5 Live and reviewer for Charlotte Ryan’s Morning primarily in Auckland. He works as a FRANCIS MCWHANNELL then the BBC World Service. He returned Glory radio show on 95bFM and the manuscripts librarian in the Sir George GREGORY O’BRIEN to New Zealand in 2002 and joined Radio front person for the book feature on Grey Special Collections department of CRAIG SISTERSON Francis McWhannell is currently New Zealand’s Morning Report. TVNZ’s U channel. Auckland Central City Library. Sharp’s studying linguistics at The University Poet, artist, essayist, curator and art publications include four volumes Lawyer-turned-journalist Craig of Auckland. Until recently, he managed writer Gregory O’Brien is one of New of poetry, a book about the Spirit of Sisterson is the deputy editor of Bethunes at Webb’s, the rare book Zealand’s major contributors to both the NICKY PELLEGRINO SALI Adventure sail-training programme, the NZLawyer magazine and a contributor department of Webb’s Auctions. He has arts and literature. His poems and short text for Real Gold: Treasures of Auckland to a diverse range of magazines, worked in the new and secondhand stories are widely anthologised and he Nicky Pellegrino is the author of five Zambian-born Sali moved to England City Libraries (2007) and the illustrated newspapers and websites in several book trades for over a decade and has a has written several books, most recently best-selling novels, including The Italian when she was 11 and to New Zealand biography Heaphy (2008). countries. A passionate supporter of, lifelong love of books, with a particular A Micronaut in the Wide World (2011) Wedding (2009), Recipe for Life (2010) and when she was 16. Being part of the and blogger on, crime fiction, he also interest in New Zealand literary and fine about the art of Graham Percy, and the The Villa Girls (2011). Her books enjoy diaspora has been a strong influence helped establish the Ngaio Marsh press publications. poetry collection Beauties of the Octagonal a strong following, particularly in the on her writing which was originally SARAH SHIEFF Award, New Zealand’s first award for Pool (2012). His works of non-fiction, United Kingdom and New Zealand, and inspired by her nurse mother and indigenous crime, mystery and thriller particularly those directed at young have been translated into a number of military-turned-probation-officer father. Sarah Shieff teaches English in the writing. Sisterson has interviewed PAUL MOON readers, are highly regarded and have languages. She also works as a freelance More recently, poetry has become an School of Arts at the University of many international crime authors and received major awards. journalist and edits the books page of essential way of exploring and expressing Waikato. Her main teaching and written crime fiction-related articles for Dr. Paul Moon is professor of history the Herald on Sunday. nickypellegrino.com her experience of being an immigrant in research areas are New Zealand a myriad of publications. at AUT University and an elected a culture unfamiliar with Africa. literature and cultural history, kiwicrime.blogspot.com Fellow of the Royal Historical Society NATALIE OLDFIELD literary theory, writing by women, at University College, London. He is a contemporary Jewish writing and frequent commentator in the media on Inspired by her gran, Natalie Oldfield gothic fiction. She convenes the RUTH SPENCER history-related issues and has written opened Dulcie May Kitchen in Emily Perkins’ first story collection University of Waikato’s programme several books on New Zealand history, Auckland in 2009. The food store won Not Her Real Name (1996) was published One of New Zealand’s leading in New Zealand Studies and edits the Ruth Spencer has been an actor, including biographies of two governors, ‘Best Cake Shop’ in its first year. Natalie when she was 26. She has since written anthropologists and historians, Dame Journal of New Zealand Literature. Her comedian, circus performer, academic, a controversial book on traditional went on to publish the book Gran’s four books, including Novel About My Anne Salmond is Distinguished most recent book is Letters of Frank and accounts clerk. She is currently Mäori cannibalism and his most recent Kitchen (2009) which sold more than Wife (2008), winner of the Fiction Medal Professor of Mäori Studies and Sargeson (2012). a columnist for Metro magazine, a work New Zealand in the Twentieth 15,000 copies in New Zealand, won the at the Montana NZ Book Awards and Anthropology at The University of freelance writer, cat fancier, hobby Century: The Nation, the People (2011). Gourmand Book Award in Europe for the Believer Book Award (US). Her new Auckland. She received the CBE for novelist and singer in rock band The best local cuisine in New Zealand and novel is The Forrests (2012). Perkins is services to literature and the Mäori PETER SIMPSON Mysterons. She has a Masters in Theatre was published in Australia and Great the host of TVNZ7’s books’ programme people in 1988 and was made Dame and Film Studies but, to her great regret, Britain. Oldfield’s third cookbook, The Good Word and a lecturer at The Commander of the British Empire for Editor, scholar, art curator and critic cannot tap dance at all. Dulcie May Kitchen: Everyday is published University of Auckland where she services to New Zealand history in 1995. Peter Simpson has lived in Auckland Paula Morris (Ngäti Wai) is a novelist, in 2012. dulciemaykitchen.com convenes the Masters of Creative Writing. In 2009, she was elected as a foreign since 1993. He has published many short story writer, reviewer and associate of the National Academy journal articles and written and/or PAMELA STIRLING commentator who has taught creative of Sciences (USA). Her latest book is edited more than a dozen books writing since 2003, most recently at the SEAN PLUNKET Captain Bligh (2012). about New Zealand literature and Pamela Stirling has been the editor University of Stirling in Scotland. She art, including titles on Ronald Hugh of the award-winning New Zealand is the author of two novels for young Jenny Pattrick is a writer and former Sean Plunket is an award-winning Morrieson, , Kendrick Listener since 2003. Born in Apia, adults and also writes award-winning jeweller whose six published novels, journalist who currently anchors Smithyman, , Charles Spear Western Samoa, and educated in

24 25 New Zealand, she has won numerous TUSI TAMASESE short stories, a play for National Radio film in 2006. He is a co-founder and RODNEY WILSON his short fiction has appeared in Sport, awards for writing, including Qantas and is working on a novel. current trustee of the Auckland Writers Metro, the New Zealand Listener and Magazine Writer of the Year, the Identified by the Sundance Film & Readers Festival. In 2011, Wells’ Dr. Rodney Wilson CNZM has had Open City (New York). His books include Oxford University Press Award, The Festival in 2012 as one of five ‘fresh biography of Colenso was published to a distinguished career as a museum Their Faces Were Shining (2010) and The Media Peace Prize and the Electricorp faces’ to watch, writer and director SIMA URALE wide acclaim and he was awarded the director, including as the founding Desolation Angel (2011). Scholarship Award, which enabled her Tusi Tamasese is a rising star of the Te Waka Toi Creative New Zealand director of the National Maritime to do research at Stanford University. film world. His Samoan language film Samoan-born director Sima Urale Michael King Fellowship. Museum and then as director of the She was awarded the Wolfson The Orator premiered in competition trained at Toi Whakaari and worked as Auckland War Memorial Museum. Fellowship to Cambridge University at the Venice Film Festival Biennale an actor before studying filmmaking He has cultivated a lifelong interest in at the 2010 Qantas Media Awards. 2011, attracting international awards. at Melbourne’s VCA. Her debut short ALBERT WENDT Pacific navigation and seamanship and Tamasese is a prize winning graduate O’Tamaiti won Best Short Film at the was the concept leader for the 2006 Vaka of Victoria University’s International Venice Film Festival. Urale has since Novelist, poet, short story writer, Moana touring exhibition and book. Dr. STEPHEN STRATFORD Institute of Modern Letters and holds an directed award-winning television, film playwright and painter, Maualaivao Wilson has a degree in Fine Arts and MA in Creative Writing and a Bachelor and commercials including the famous Albert Wendt CNZM is Emeritus has recently returned to painting. Stephen Stratford is a freelance book of Social Science. Sub-Cranium Feeling King Kapisi music Professor of English at The University of editor and manuscript assessor. He has video, short film Still Lives, documentary Auckland. An influential figure in the been a contributing journalist to many Velvet Dreams and feature film Apron development of Pacific literature since TIM WILSON publications including Quote Unquote, GRACE TAYLOR Strings. She is currently developing her the 1970s, he was made a Companion Metro and the New Zealand Listener own film projects. of the New Zealand Order of Merit in Novelist and short story writer and has published more than a dozen Grace Taylor is of English and Samoan 2001 and won the Commonwealth Tim Wilson is perhaps best-known books, mostly non-fiction. Stratford is descent and raised in South Auckland. Writer’s Asia Pacific Region Prize in as Television New Zealand’s US a NZ Society of Authors representative She is a spoken word poet, a youth GEOFF WALKER 2010. His co-edited anthology Mauri Ola: correspondent based in New York, a on the Copyright Licensing board, development worker and the co- Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English position he left in early 2012 to return and was a founding trustee of the founder of the South Auckland Poets’ Industry veteran Geoff Walker recently was shortlisted for the 2011 NZ Post home. He has written for numerous Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Collective (SAPC) and the Rising stepped down as publishing director Book Awards. New Zealand publications as well as He has judged the Wattie Book Awards, Voices Youth Poetry Slam. She won the of Penguin New Zealand, after several the Guardian and Newsweek.com and Montana NZ Book Awards and NZ Post Festival’s Poetry Idol competition in decades of building Penguin’s local Book Awards. 2008 and has had work published in publishing list. He has published online poetry journal Blackmail Press many of New Zealand’s leading writers and the SAPC self-published book including Michael King, Maurice Gee, FLEUR SULLIVAN Something Worth Reading? Lloyd Jones, Witi Ihimaera, Patricia Grace, Ranginui Walker, Vincent legend and pioneering O’Sullivan and Anne Salmond. He is restaurateur Fleur Sullivan is the PAUL THOMAS also a former newspaper, radio and owner of the much-loved Fleur’s Place at television journalist. Walker currently Moeraki – restaurant of choice for Rick Crime novelist and sports writer Paul works as a consultant, writer and editor. Stein – alongside her new venture The Thomas is the author of seven novels Loan & Merc in . Sullivan has and a winner of the Crime Writers’ built a national reputation and received Association of Australia’s inaugural Ned numerous awards for her restaurants Kelly Award. His Tito Ihaka detective and in recognition of her contribution trilogy, published internationally and Ian Wedde is New Zealand’s current to tourism. Her memoir Fleur was translated into several languages, has . An accomplished poet, published in 2011 and tells the story of just been republished along with a new novelist, art writer and critic, his job her life in food. fleursplace.com novel Death on Demand. Thomas has as Laureate is to be an advocate and a also written a book of short stories, public presence for poetry, promoting nine books on sport, and weekly the reading and writing of poetry to ROBERT SULLIVAN columns for both the New Zealand children and adults alike. Wedde, who Listener and The NZ Herald. has also worked as the head of art and Robert Sullivan (Ngä Puhi / Kai Tahu / humanities at Te Papa, lives in Auckland Galway) grew up in South Auckland and teaches in the departments and is now the head of the School ROB TUWHARE of English and Art History at The of Creative Writing at Manukau University of Auckland. Institute of Technology. He has won Rob Tuwhare (Ngä Puhi / Scotland) several New Zealand literary awards is a carpenter, writer, father and for his children’s writing, poetry and grandfather, trust member of The Hone PETER WELLS editing. His books include Cassino: City Tuwhare Charitable Trust and Hone of Martyrs (2010), Shout Ha! to the Sky Tuwhare’s literary executor. He belongs Peter Wells is the author of numerous (2010), Star Waka (latest ed. 2011), and to the Auckland-based Te Arapiki award-winning books and an acclaimed Weaving Earth and Sky (2002) illustrated writers group and contributed to the film writer and director who was made by . inaugural edition of the Mäori literary a member of the New Zealand Order journal Ora Nui (2012). He has written of Merit for services to literature and

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www.writersfestival.co.nz GALA NIGHT SPECIAL EVENT WHAT THE DICKENS?

SPY STORIES: 02. THURSDAY MAY 10 — 7.00-8.30PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE

THURSDAY? LUNCH WITH STELLA

The highly successful ‘True Stories Told RIMINGTON Live’ format, developed by the NZ Book Council, returns to launch this year’s

Festival in an hour and a half of live and true storytelling, unscripted and unmediated, delivered by a selection

ON of this year’s stellar guests. Join Lemon

Andersen (US/Puerto Rico), Eoin Colfer (Ireland), Kate De Goldi (NZ), Roddy Doyle (Ireland), Geoff Dyer (UK), Oliver

Jeffers (US), Anne Kennedy (US/NZ) and Jesmyn Ward (US), for this unmissable 01. THURSDAY MAY 10 — 12.00-2.00PM session. Inspired by the phrase “What

WHAT’S SOUL BAR & RESTAURANT the Dickens?”, which originates from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Dame Stella Rimington has lived a Windsor, and nods to the 200th birthday myriad of lives: archivist, diplomat’s of Charles Dickens, expect laughter, wife, spymaster and novelist. Her career tears, thoughtfulness and provocation as the first female and first publicly in this engaging session mirroring the identified head of MI5 is well-known, storytelling phenomenon sweeping the as are her novels centred on feisty spy globe. MC: Carol Hirschfeld. Liz Carlyle which have earned her fans around the world. Her latest book Rip Tide (2011) charts a lively tale of pirates and terrorists linking England, Greece, Somalia and Pakistan. Enjoy a three- course lunch with glass of wine by the water at Soul Bar & Restaurant and hear Dame Stella talk about the ways in which her fiction writing draws on the riches of her fascinating professional life. Introduced by New Zealand Listener editor Pamela Stirling.

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42 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. FREE EVENTS. WRITERS ON CAMPUS. SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES. WORKSHOPS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 43 FRIDAY MAY 11 A TRAIN IN WINTER: Land Wars, introducing us to Te Whiti, Tohu and Bryce the murderer, among CAROLINE MOOREHEAD many other colourful characters real SPECIAL EVENT and fictional. Ihimaera talks to friend – 2012 PROGRAMME – and colleague Dame Fiona Kidman, who LOOKING TO ASIA: wrote the introduction to the recent 40th anniversary edition of Ihimaera’s BUSINESS BREAKFAST very first book, Pounamu, Pounamu.

WITH CHANDRAN NAIR MCCAHON AND

THE MICRONAUT 04. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 10.00-11.00AM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE

FRIDAY? A Train In Winter is a moving story of solidarity and survival emerging out of the Nazi horrors of the Second

World War and the French Resistance. 03. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 7.30-9.00AM Caroline Moorehead’s book recounts the THE LANGHAM, AUCKLAND deportation of the 230 Frenchwomen of

ON Convoi 31000 to Auschwitz-Birkenau

With our future inextricably linked to on 24 January 1943. Only 49 survived 06. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 11.30AM-12.30PM Asia, the issues facing that continent are and their story has been widely ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE ones of major importance. International acknowledged as not only fascinating

speaker and expert on globalisation in but important as a moving account Martin Edmond and Gregory O’Brien Asia, Chandran Nair (Malaysian-born, of horror and survival. Human rights illuminate the pilgrimages undertaken now based in Hong Kong), speaks about journalist and biographer of Bertrand to get to the heart of two New Zealand

WHAT’S Asia’s economic and social challenges Russell, Martha Gellhorn and Freya artists abroad. In Dark Night: Walking and their implications for other Stark, Moorehead speaks with Carole with McCahon (2011) Edmond retraces countries. Nair works internationally Beu about these amazing women and McCahon’s steps on the 1984 night as an advocate for a more sustainable about the art of biography. he went missing in Sydney, a vivid approach to development in Asia and reconstruction knitted together with as an advisor to governments and Edmond’s imagination and intimate multi-national corporations. Recent AN HOUR WITH knowledge of his adopted hometown. appearances include at the 2011 OECD To write A Micronaut in the Wide World: Paris Forum, the 2011 APEC CEO WITI IHIMAERA The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Meeting and the 2012 World Economic Percy (2012), O’Brien and his family upped Forum AGM. He is the founder of the sticks to spend three months in Taranaki- Global Institute For Tomorrow (GIFT), born Percy’s London home, where he the chairman of boutique investment created many of his extraordinary advisory company Avantage Ventures, and best loved illustrations. A chaired and the author of Consumptionomics: discussion with Peter Simpson. Asia’s Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet (2011). Introduced by Sustainable Business Network and civil engineer Sarah Sinclair. Supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation. 05. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 10.00-11.00AM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE

The Parihaka Woman is Witi Ihimaera’s first publication since his controversial – EVENT LISTINGS – The Trowenna Sea (2009). This new book is an eclectic combination of fiction and history with echoes of traditional waiata, Dumas, Shakespeare and Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. Central character Erenora is our guide through the tumultuous times of the Taranaki

44 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. FREE EVENTS. WRITERS ON CAMPUS. SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES. WORKSHOPS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 45 GREG ‘ALIX speaks with Irish literature expert Jan his Rolling Stone role, Hastings regularly and cultural issues to the fore in the Painter in the South Pacific by Laurence Teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Cronin about his writing life. covers politics and international affairs United Kingdom. English residents Simmons, and Your Unselfish Kindness: Fowl, creation of the inimitable Eoin BOSCO’ MCGEE including the wars in Iran, Afghanistan – former MI5 head and spy novelist Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings Colfer, has been entertaining readers and Libya. His new book The Operators Dame Stella Rimington, The Economist edited by Mary Edmond-Paul, and to for the past 10 years, with the last of the CAPTAIN BLIGH (2012) examines the inside story of journalist and Booker-shortlisted hear editor talk about series Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian America’s war in Afghanistan and he fiction writer A. D. Miller, and essayist, upcoming issues of Landfall. due out shortly. Likewise, Emily has also recently written a major profile journalist and fiction writer Geoff Rodda’s Deltora Quest and Rowan of Rin of Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange. Dyer – discuss the state of modern series have made her an international Michael Hastings is in conversation British play with former tax lawyer, A UNIVERSE name and a firm favourite with young with Guardian journalist and New arts philanthropist and committed audiences worldwide. Last year she Zealand Listener columnist Toby Manhire. Anglophile Dr. Robin Congreve. FROM NOTHING published The Golden Door, the first in Supported by Hachette. her new The Three Doors trilogy. These two leading stars of writing for young 07. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 11.30AM-12.30PM AN HOUR WITH readers talk with Kate De Goldi about LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE THE FORRESTS: fantasy writing, future storytelling and 09. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 1.00-2.00PM CHARLOTTE WOOD their fictional characters in a session Successful pseudonyms are rare in LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE EMILY PERKINS suitable for adults and children alike. New Zealand, but Greg McGee well and truly pulled it off. As Alix Bosco he won Luminary historian Dame Anne the Ngaio Marsh Crime Award for Cut Salmond speaks with Paul Diamond SPECIAL EVENT and Run (2009) and was shortlisted for about her internationally acclaimed the same prize the following year with triumph Bligh: William Bligh in the 14. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 5.30-6.30PM AN EVENING WITH Bosco’s second novel Slaughter Falls (2010). South Seas (2011), a history inspired by ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Outing himself in 2011, McGee has gone her research for the earlier Aphrodite’s RODDY DOYLE on to write Love and Money, a sharply Island (2010) detailing European In the mere span of a human lifetime, funny novel published under his own contact with fabled Tahiti. In her new, our understanding of the universe name. He talks with journalist and critic beautifully told story, controversial 13. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 4.00-5.00PM has changed completely. Celebrated Finlay Macdonald about his genre-wide figure William Bligh is revealed for the 11. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 2.30-3.30PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE prizewinning scientist, public writing for the screen, stage and page, and first time not only as the captain of the LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE intellectual and accomplished speaker how much he enjoyed his gender change. mutinous Bounty but as an important Rising star of Australian fiction, Professor Lawrence Krauss is one of ethnographer and an early Governor Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the Charlotte Wood comes to New the leading figures in this golden age of of . Bligh adds to the sensory world around her – she lives in Zealand with her recent novel Animal cosmology. Currently based at Arizona AN HOUR WITH paradoxical legacy of this infamous the flickering moment. From the age of People (2011). Moving, funny and State University, he is the author of The seaman and captures more definitively seven, when her odd, disenfranchised quintessentially Australian, Animal Physics of Star Trek (1995), Quantum Man: SEBASTIAN BARRY than ever the excitement, drama family moves from New York City to People takes place on a single Sydney Richard Feynman’s Life in Science (2010) 16. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 7.00-8.15PM and terror that surrounded him. In the wide skies of Auckland, to the very day in the life of the hapless Stephen, a and, most recently, the New York Times ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE conversation with Paul Diamond. end of her life, this is her great gift and character from her bestselling family bestseller A Universe from Nothing (2011). possible misfortune. Emily Perkins’ new drama The Children (2007), who has Krauss speaks with Dr. Grant Christie Booker Prize winner and Irishman novel The Forrests, which traces Dorothy’s decided to dump his smarter, wealthier about the big bang, the expanding Roddy Doyle first stole our hearts with AN HOUR WITH life journey, exemplifies the skilful and girlfriend. Wood is also the author universe, the rich and mysterious his novel The Commitments (1987), which literary writing for which Perkins has been of The Submerged Cathedral (2004), world of cosmology and our place on was turned into the incredibly popular MICHAEL HASTINGS applauded. She speaks with Paula Morris shortlisted for the Commonwealth the sidelines. Professor Krauss is in New 1991 film of the same name. Since then about her fascinating new narrative. Writers’ Prize, South East Asia and Zealand as a Hood Fellow in association he has published a further 10 novels, South Pacific Region, and the editor of with The University of Auckland. books for children and collections of Brothers and Sisters (2009), an anthology short stories, including the Booker 08. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 1.00-2.00PM BROKEN BRITAIN of short stories by leading Australian Prize winner Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE writers. She writes a popular food blog ARTEMIS FOWL AND (1993). His captivating combination and has just published a book of food of wit, compassion and lyrical turn of Prizewinning and Booker-nominated writing, Love and Hunger (2012). With THE DELTORA THREE phrase continue to earn him accolades Irish novelist, playwright and poet, Stephanie Johnson in the chair. Supported worldwide. Doyle’s latest story Sebastian Barry has kept company by the Australia Council for the Arts. collection Bullfighting (2011) examines with Lilly, the main character of his the lives of Dubliners – mostly male, new novel On Canaan’s Side (2011), since 10. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 2.30-3.30PM FREE PUBLISHER’S PARTY mostly middle-aged and mostly as 1993 when she featured in his play The ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE FRIDAY MAY 11 — 5.15PM bewildered as the eponymous bull. He Steward of Christendom (1995). Following HOUSE joins NZ broadcaster, media consultant on from highly acclaimed earlier novels The removal of General McChrystal 385 QUEEN STREET (STREET LEVEL) and raconteur Brian Edwards for A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret as Troop Commander in Afghanistan 12. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 4.00-5.00PM readings and conversation in this Scripture (2008), On Canaan’s Side spans was directly attributable to a Rolling ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Otago University Press invites you to join special Friday evening event. 70 years of Irish and American history Stone feature ‘The Runaway General’, them for a glass of wine to celebrate the and has won accolades around the world penned by contributing editor Michael These are challenging times for Britain, publication of two books by Auckland 15. FRIDAY MAY 11 — 5.30-6.30PM for both the beauty of its writing and Hastings and for which he won the 2011 with economic crises across much of authors: Tuhituhi: William Hodges, Cook’s LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE the eloquence of its storytelling. Barry George Polk Award in journalism. In Europe and political, social, financial 46 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. FREE EVENTS. WRITERS ON CAMPUS. SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES. WORKSHOPS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 47 SATURDAY MAY 12 which essentially rewrote Colenso’s biography. He re-emerged as a deep WRITERS ON CAMPUS thinker about colonial impact, a feeling AN HOUR WITH man in a painfully awkward marriage THE AFGHAN WAR – 2012 PROGRAMME – and the father to New Zealand botany. PETER JAMES Wells discusses his “tour de force” (The NZ Herald) of a book, looking at how he accessed the hungry heart of this once- forgotten man. In conversation with

Francis McWhannell.

HELPING CHILDREN 20. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 10.00-11.00AM SATURDAY? FISHER & PAYKEL AUDITORIUM

17. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 10.00-11.00AM WITH LEARNING UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE

DISABILITIES Rolling Stone journalist Michael

Award-winning crime writer Peter Hastings’s piece on the US troops in James, whose books have sold more Afghanistan resulted in the removal of than 11 million copies worldwide, General Stanley McChrystal, the head

ON continues to shepherd his detective Roy of command of the US and international

Grace through a myriad of mysteries. forces, by President Obama. Hastings The latest, Dead Man’s Grip (2011), has since written a book, The Operators spent 16 weeks in the Sunday Times (2012), which takes up the story

(UK) bestseller list, reaching No 1. In where his Rolling Stone article left off, the last year he has also published the revealing more about the “wild and standalone thriller Perfect People and terrifying” story of the American war in

WHAT’S an eighth Inspector Roy Grace novel 19. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 10.00-11.00AM Afghanistan. He is joined by the author Not Dead Yet is due in mid-2012. James UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE of Other People’s Wars (2011), Nicky talks to crime writing aficionado and Hager, for a discussion with Stephen book blogger Graham Beattie about his The Canadian Arrowsmith Program Hoadley on this 21st century war and highly successful career. Supported by is founded on the philosophy that it is the involvement in it of both the Pan Macmillan Publishers. possible to treat learning disabilities United States and New Zealand. by identifying and strengthening cognitive capacities. Based on the COLENSO: personal experience of its developer, THE INCREDIBLE Barbara Arrowsmith Young, the PETER WELLS program uses a series of exercises BOOK ARTIST designed to strengthen weak cognitive capacities and improve associated OLIVER JEFFERS learning dysfunctions. In this presentation, designed for parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities, Arrowsmith Young, whose autobiography The Woman Who Changed Her Brain was published this year, will outline the principles and practices of her program. Supported by Harper Collins. 18. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 10.00-11.00AM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 21. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 11.30AM-12.30PM – EVENT LISTINGS – Early missionary William Colenso ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE slipped off the historical map, to be known only as a difficult person, a Wear your most colourful woollen bristlingly square peg in a round hole. jumper and bring your children to In 2011 Peter Wells published The Hungry celebrate the publication of Oliver Heart – Journeys with William Colenso Jeffers’ The Hueys. An exquisite artist

48 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. FREE EVENTS. WRITERS ON CAMPUS. SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES. WORKSHOPS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 49 and creator of much-loved, award- books in 13 years. He is also one of our CONSUMPTIONOMICS (2006), now also an award-winning SNOWDROPS: winning books including Lost and Found most controversial, having had several movie. It explores the ways a family WRITERS ON CAMPUS (2005) and The Incredible Book Eating Boy public stoushes on subjects including THE MICHAEL KING MEMORIAL LECTURE fracturing under the grief of losing a A.D. MILLER (2006), Jeffers will draw live onstage, versions of the Treaty of Waitangi, child to cancer seeks solace in digital WILD POETS, supported by storyteller and comic strip Mäori cannibalism and Catholic Bishop and substitute worlds. Brilliance artist Dylan Horrocks, speak about Pompallier. 2011 saw the publication (2012) is a fictional treatment of the EXTRAORDINARY his books and answer questions from of his weighty tome New Zealand in the relationship between genius Thomas the audience. This special session is Twentieth Century: The Nation, The People. Edison and J.P. Morgan at the birth of WORDS suitable for adults and children 5+ alike. He discusses the work, and where to the modern era. McCarten speaks Supported by Harper Collins. now for Paul Moon, with writer and with Lily Richards. historian Joan Druett. THE FUTURE A FINE PROSPECT: WRITERS ON CAMPUS 25. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 1.00-2.00PM 29. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 2.30-3.30PM OF THE NOVEL IN THE SHADOW ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE AUCKLAND’S EAST ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Author, investment advisor and think A.D. Miller’s first novel Snowdrops OF HISTORY tank founder Chandran Nair is a (2011) shot him to instant fame with a second-generation Malay of Indian short listing for the Man Booker Prize. descent, now based in Hong Kong. He A portrait of moral decline in Moscow, advocates a new model of capitalism Snowdrops draws us into a city of neon for Asian economies – constrained lusts and frenetic sin, a city that “gleams capitalism – that particularly requires with strip joints, call girls, malevolent governments to regulate the use of overlords, fraudsters, overnight natural resources, and therefore the millionaires; but in which the old beg 22. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 11.30AM-12.30PM nature of consumption, through a 27. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 1.00-2.00PM on snowy streets,” (The Independent). To LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE range of policy tools. In his new book UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 28. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 1.00-2.00PM write the book, Miller drew on his three Consumptionomics he argues that the FISHER & PAYKEL AUDITORIUM years as Moscow correspondent for The In The Marriage Plot (2011), Pulitzer Prize- 24. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 11.30AM-12.30PM consumption-led Western economic Following on from their highly UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND Economist. He talks fiction with writer, winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides’ FISHER & PAYKEL AUDITORIUM model, based on under-pricing successful history of Ponsonby, reviewer and blogger Stephen Stratford latest novel, Madeleine Hanna posits the UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND resources and externalising the true historians Jenny Carlyon and Enjoy an hour of spoken word (Quote Unquote). theory that the novel has been fatally cost of goods and services, will not Diana Morrow turn their performance with seven amazing wounded by the modern breakdown of Three of the Auckland Writers & work in a resource-constrained Asia. to Auckland’s beautiful eastern artists: Tony Award-winning Def marriage. In a wide ranging conversation Readers Festival’s international Chandran Nair delivers the Michael suburbs of Remuera, Meadowbank Jam artist Lemon Andersen and AN HOUR WITH on the great novels and the future of fiction stars discuss setting their King Memorial Lecture introduced by and St. Johns on the flanks of the Australian Poetry Slam Champion the form, Eugenides and New Zealand fictional stories in the shadow of real, National Business Review Editor-in-Chief Waitemata Harbour. A Fine Prospect Luka Lesson alongside South Auckland DAME FIONA novelist Emily Perkins discuss the genre’s sometimes overwhelming, historical Nevil Gibson. Supported by the Asia New (2011) describes the establishment Poets’ Collective performers Zane prospects in the 21st century. Chaired by events. Mal Peet (Life: An Unexploded Zealand Foundation. of the merchant mansions and the Scarborough and Grace Taylor (who reviewer and critic Jolisa Gracewood. Diagram), Sebastian Barry (On Canaan’s social lives and professional milieu also acts as MC), Pacific performance Side) and Jesmyn Ward (Salvage The of the leading families, but also delves poet Daren Kamali, Rising Voices Bones) have all used significant major AN HOUR WITH below the glittering public surfaces. 2011 champion Sali and the winner NEW ZEALAND events – the Cuban missile crisis, Reflecting the rich detail and great of Campus Life’s 2012 Poetry Slam the wars of the 20th century and ANTHONY MCCARTEN stories in this well-researched and competition held on 11 May. Powerful IN THE TWENTIETH Hurricane Katrina respectively – as illustrated book, the session will and provocative, this session will the backdrop to their heartfelt and include a tantalising taste of the entertain and inspire. CENTURY carefully crafted stories of love and physical and historical wealth of family. Paula Morris talks with them the area through a slide show. 30. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 2.30-3.30PM about history as character in their Introduced by journalist and LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE recent fiction. writer Gordon McLauchlan. Dame Fiona Kidman’s latest, The Trouble With Fire, is a collection of 11 intriguing short stories set mostly in her hometown of Wellington. Fire 26. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 1.00-2.00PM changes lives, it destroys – but it also LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE illuminates and purifies. Each of the characters in these stories is burnt 23. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 11.30AM-12.30PM Expat New Zealand writer, scriptwriter by their experiences, by their loves UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE and film director Anthony McCarten and losses, and is described with the returns home with two new novels. In mastery we have come to expect from Dr. Paul Moon is one of New Zealand’s the Absence of Heroes (2012) is a sequel to this leading exponent of the short story most prolific historians, producing 19 his award-winning Death of a Superhero

50 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. FREE EVENTS. WRITERS ON CAMPUS. SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES. WORKSHOPS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 51 form. Kidman talks about the new In 2010 Malcolm Gladwell wrote AN HOUR WITH underpinned our societies for so long AN HOUR WITH Origin of Stories, a book that explains collection, her love of the short story The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted for The are dangerous or useful in finding why we are compulsively storytelling and her wide-reaching life in letters New Yorker. Eighteen months on, events RHYS DARBY meaning and shaping a future. Chaired STELLA RIMINGTON animals. His latest work Why Lyrics Last: with Carole Beu. in the Middle East potentially challenge by Tom Bishop. Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare’s the thesis and discussions continue Sonnets (2012), explores why poems can on the relationship between social both haunt and daunt us. Join him in THE ORATOR: media and the Occupy movement. SMALL HOLES conversation with poet and critic Former Guardian journalist and current Iain Sharp. FILMMAKER New Zealand Listener columnist Toby IN THE SILENCE: Manhire has just edited Arab Spring: TUSI TAMASESE Rebellion, Revolution and a New World A TRIBUTE TO SPECIAL EVENT Order, a collection of written pieces tracking the dramatic developments in GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT: the Middle East. He joins social media 34. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 4.00-5.00PM 37. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 5.30-6.30PM author Vaughn Davis to explore the ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE TASTINGS AND TIARAS intersection of political movements and social media in a period of rapid change In This Way To Spaceship (2012) Rip Tide (2012) is the sixth of the Liz WITH KATHY LETTE and immediate communications. With internationally acclaimed New Zealand Carlyle thriller novels, which began digital pioneer Russell Brown. comedian Rhys Darby delivers a “handy, in 2004 with the publication of At loosely autobiographical, end of the Risk, earning Dame Stella Rimington world companion” inspired by the a reputation as a crafter of rollicking 31. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 2.30-3.30PM SPECIAL EVENT predicted Armageddon of 2012, which “insider” spy fiction. Rimington has UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE has in its turn spawned a one-man had an expansive career, most notably HIGH TEA: stand-up show at the Comedy Festival. as the first female – and first publicly One of the standout New Zealand films Darby rockets in to the Aotea Centre identified – head of Britain’s secret of 2011, Tusi Tamasese’s The Orator is the THE GENEROSITY for a wide-ranging chat with Television service, providing her with a wealth first full length film made in Samoan. New Zealand journalist and fiction of material from which to shape her It wowed audiences and critics at home OF FOOD writer Tim Wilson on comedy, creativity knowledgeable and highly entertaining 39. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 6.30-8.30PM and abroad, premiering in competition and the life of an expat performer in the fiction. Rimington speaks with LIMELIGHT ROOM AND at the Venice Film Festival and earning sunny suburbs of California. broadcaster Sean Plunket about her new ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE New Zealand’s Oscar contender spot. 36. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 4.00-5.00PM career as an international writer, the Set on the Samoan island of Upolu, this UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE fun of writing spy thrillers and what is An evening of wine, food and fun is in accomplished debut fuses cinematic THE GOD MATTER next for Agent Carlyle and the Dame. store in the company of international convention with traditional storytelling In 1964, Hone Tuwhare published writing diva Kathy Lette, author of a to create a story of love, courage and his first book of poetry No Ordinary myriad of hilarious and provocative honour. Writer and director Tamasese Sun. It sold an astounding 700 copies WHY LYRICS MATTER: novels for women from Puberty Blues talks to fellow film director Sima Urale in ten days and was reprinted 13 (1979) to her latest, The Boy Who Fell To about writing, filmmaking and straddling times. He went on to become our best BRIAN BOYD Earth (2012), and with a long CV that two cultures, in work and in life. Presented 33. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 3.30-5.00PM loved poet ever. Last year saw the includes a three month stint as the in association with Script to Screen. THE LANGHAM, AUCKLAND publication of Small Holes in the Silence: Savoy Hotel’s Writer-in-Residence. Collected Poems, showcasing Tuwhare’s The evening starts with a hosted wine- A celebration of love, food and family, achievement with 300 poems, 43 new tasting of three of Waiheke Island’s WRITERS ON CAMPUS this pre-Mothers’ Day High Tea treat Mäori translations and 10 never-before- wonderful Cable Bay wines, each brings together winning cooks and 35. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 4.00-5.00PM published pieces. In this tribute to his accompanied by a matched canapé, TWEETING THE food writers to talk about how food LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE genius, Poet Laureate Ian Wedde and and introduced by the winemaker, comforts and nourishes, and how New Zealand poets Jacq Carter, Anne in the Limelight Room of the Aotea REVOLUTION giving and sharing food is an act of love, American physicist and intellectual Kennedy, Gregory O’Brien, Rob Tuwhare Centre. It then shifts to the ASB Theatre providing joy, solace and security. Set Lawrence Krauss, in his new book A and Albert Wendt each present a poem where bold, brash, clever Kathy will in the wonderful surrounds of the five Universe from Nothing (2012), argues that of Tuwhare’s, one of their own and one 38. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 5.30-6.30PM talk about her latest book, her writing star The Langham, Auckland, this event quantum physics has clearly established from the collection of a co-presenter. LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE life and loves, the joys of living in brings together Australian food writer no God is required for the creation of the MC: Witi Ihimaera. London and the very real challenges and novelist Charlotte Wood (Love and universe. In an age where public debate Professor Brian Boyd is the world’s remaining for women in a 21st century Hunger), Fleur Sullivan (Fleur), owner of rages on the teaching of science vs leading Nabokov scholar, as well as a landscape. (For session attendance only, Moeraki’s world famous Fleur’s Place, religion, (an argument that Krauss is at Professor of English at The University see Event 42.) Chair: Nicky Pellegrino and Auckland cook Natalie Oldfield the forefront of in America), is religion of Auckland, with a wide interest in (Dulcie May’s Kitchen) as they chat about a valid view or mere superstition, and language and story. His most recent the love at the heart of their food and does it matter either way? Krauss comes Nabokov publication, Stalking Nabokov 32. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 2.30-3.30PM writing with Lauraine Jacobs, one of together with theologian Lloyd Geering (2011), collected some of Boyd’s essays FISHER & PAYKEL AUDITORIUM New Zealand’s most accomplished to discuss the existence of a deity, the from the last two decades of his long UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND cooks and food writers. need for God in the 21st century and engagement with Nabokov’s life and whether the religious beliefs that have work. In 2009, Boyd published On the

52 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. FREE EVENTS. WRITERS ON CAMPUS. SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES. WORKSHOPS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 53 Hoar’s Exile is a sharp literary satire set in SPECIAL EVENT a time when men were men, women were women and writers were, ahem, eloquent POETRY IDOL artists who discussed important topics with great insight and wisdom. Thinly veiled versions of formative figures of New Zealand – 2012 PROGRAMME – literature (James K. Baxter and Frank Sargeson, among others) end up in the firing line as Hoar’s droll precision cuts through

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EXILE: AN ATC 42. SATURDAY MAY 12 – 7.30-8.30PM PLAY READING ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Bold, brash and very clever, Kathy Lette comes to New Zealand to mark the publication of her latest novel The Boy Who Fell To Earth (2012), an energetic tale of the trials and tribulations of a single mother and her son, Merlin, who has Aspergers. Join Lette in conversation with Nicky Pellegrino, talking about her latest book, her writing life and loves, and the very real challenges remaining 41. SATURDAY MAY 12 — 7.00-8.30PM for women in a 21st century world, not UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE to mention pregnancy and mothering survival tips, hot flushes, getting down 1939. Exiled German poet Helmut and dirty with George Clooney and Lagerbrutenfeldt washes up on Auckland’s Princes William and Harry, and hiding North Shore. The arrival of a literary star Julian Assange in the attic. causes much excitement at first, but soon the local literati find themselves challenged by Make a night of it and buy a combined – EVENT LISTINGS – this foreigner: he wants to talk literature and ticket for Cable Bay wine tastings poetry at their gatherings; they normally get and canapés from 6.30pm, followed plastered and eat finger food. It’s a recipe for by this session. See Event 39: Tastings a crisis of national identity. Lightly based and Tiaras. on a real German poet who came to New Zealand seeking sanctuary, understanding and a captive colonial audience, Stuart

54 55 SUNDAY MAY 13 along the way or is it business as usual? mix of major New Zealand paintings, MEN ADRIFT in 1769 as navigator and translator, sadly Museum founding trustee and editor UK Crime Writers Association chair and explaining why these particular works dying before he could return home. In of new book Black: The History of Black bestselling crime writer Peter James, have resonated with him. In this ‘live’ conversation with Dr. Rodney Wilson. in Fashion, Society and Culture in New AN HOUR WITH Australian crime writer Jennifer Rowe version of the book, Frizzell guides us Zealand (2012). De Pont will provide and New Zealand’s own Paul Thomas through a selection of the paintings, a guided tour of iconic black outfits JEFFREY EUGENIDES are in discussion with Kiwi crime with entertaining anecdotes that THEM + US throughout New Zealand fashion from blogger Craig Sisterson. enlighten about their meaning and the pioneering women of The Piano place in our art history. Introduced by era, to sports teams, the Fred Dagg Josie McNaught. Supported by Auckland singlet and the fashion of leading ORA NUI: A NEW Art Gallery Toi o Tamäki. contemporary designers such as Karen Walker, WORLD and Zambesi. MAORI VOICE 48. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 11.30AM-12.30PM Introduced by Josie McNaught. OPEN MIKE: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Supported by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamäki. POETRY PLEASURES In an age of changing gender roles, three fine novelists come together to 43. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 10.00-11.00AM discuss the ‘lost’ men at the centre 50. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 11.30AM-12.30PM LIFE AND ART: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE of their storytelling. Roddy Doyle’s UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Bullfighting (2011) is a collection of short GEOFF DYER One of the major writers of his stories featuring men ‘of a certain age’ Danny Vendramini’s book Them + generation, Pulitzer Prize-winning pondering their place in the world. Us: How Neanderthal Predation Created novelist and short story writer A.D. Miller’s narrator in Snowdrops Modern Humans expounds the Jeffrey Eugenides has followed up 45. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 10.00-11.00AM (2011), Nick, willingly self-deceives as controversial theory that Eurasian the enormous successes of The Virgin UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE he gets caught up in the lives of two Neanderthals hunted, killed and Suicides (2003) and Middlesex (2002) enigmatic Russian women. In Charlotte cannibalised early humans for 50,000 with his new novel The Marriage Plot The launch of Ora Nui, a new journal of Wood’s Animal People (2011) we spend years, with modern human physiology, (2012) in which Madeleine Hanna Mäori writing edited by Anton Blank, the day with aimless, hapless Stephen sexuality, aggression, propensity for contemplates a post-university life with was prompted by a passionate belief that as he contemplates breaking up with inter-group violence and human nature either brilliant but troubled boyfriend the Mäori urban and middle class creative his successful girlfriend. Emily Perkins all emerging as a direct consequence. It Leonard Bankhead or besotted friend voice has been largely silenced by a focus talks with all three about men adrift as is a theory that seems both preposterous 52. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 1.00-2.00PM Mitchell Grammaticus. The Marriage on stories such as Once Were Warriors, the stuff of fiction. and intriguing, taking as it does the ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE Plot is distinguished by beautifully Boy and Whale Rider that depict Mäori as core of Darwinian biology and cladding crafted language, an intimate tone and rural, poor and traditional. Writers Te it with challenging ideas about Geoff Dyer is acclaimed for his genre- scale, and clever literary underpinnings. Awhina Arahanga, Anton Blank, Jacq 47. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 10.15AM-1.15PM AN HOUR WITH trauma, the genetic transmission of defying writing, crossing as it does Eugenides talks about his writing in Carter and Robert Sullivan join chair Paul AIR NEW ZEALAND FOYER, AOTEA CENTRE emotions and the origin of instincts. both subject matter (war, film, jazz, conversation with Kate De Goldi. Diamond for readings and a conversation JOAN DRUETT An illustrated talk chaired by historian photography, literature, travel) and about what constitutes a Mäori voice and Continuing this much-loved Festival Paul Moon. Supported by the Australia style (criticism, creative non-fiction, who ‘owns’ the Mäori narrative. tradition, published poets will read for Council for the Arts. commentary, journalism, fiction). A MIND FOR MURDER ten minutes at 25 minute intervals and Artfully constructed stories, imbued the rest of the time five minute slots are with a fascinating intellect, make SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES available to anyone who wants to read – SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES Dyer one of the most interesting just put your name down on the board writers in the UK today. His latest ALL ABOUT THE IMAGE: on the day. Poets appearing include: BLACK IN FASHION: work Zona (2012) takes as its starting point the 1970s Tarkovsky film Stalker DICK FRIZZELL 10.15am – Siobhan Harvey DORIS DE PONT and becomes a meditation on film, (Lost Relatives, 2011) art and life. He speaks with one of 10.40am – Scott Hamilton 49. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 11.30AM-12.30PM New Zealand’s own eclectic thinkers (Feeding the Gods, 2011) LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Gregory O’Brien. 11.05am – Gregory O’Brien 44. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 10.00-11.00AM (Beauties of the Octagonal Pool, 2012) One of New Zealand’s most popular LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE 11.30am – Aleksandra Lane writers, Joan Druett writes both history (Birds of Clay, 2012) and historical novels. Her lasting Lately there has been a flurry of 11.55am – Daren Kamali creation, Mäori whaler Wiki Coffin, commentary musing on the violence of (Tales, Poems and Songs from the features in a series of mystery novels Scandinavian and other modern crime Underwater World, 2011) set along the whaling routes of the fiction. In this panel discussion, three 46. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 10.15-11.15AM 12.20pm – Anne Kennedy nineteenth century. Joan’s most recent 51. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 11.45AM-12.45PM exponents of the form discuss whether AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM (The Darling North, 2012) book is Tupaia: The Remarkable Story AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM there has been a transformative shift over 12.45pm – Paula Green of Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator, time from the age of beloved cerebral In It’s All About The Image (2011), artist (Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand an illustrated and lively look at this An illustrated romp through the detectives to far more gruesome fare and, Dick Frizzell takes us on a personal Love Poems (2012) previously uncelebrated, historical figure history of black in New Zealand if so, whether something has been lost tour of New Zealand art via an eclectic MC: Penny Ashton. who sailed from Tahiti on the Endeavour fashion with Doris de Pont, Fashion

56 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. FREE EVENTS. WRITERS ON CAMPUS. SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES. WORKSHOPS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 57 DIALLING UP musical career has been influenced SALVAGE THE BONES: How does a journalist manage the County of Kings is spoken word THE POLITICS by a range of other musical genres. conflict and can the public trust they performer Lemon Andersen’s memoir THE ANCESTORS Joel meanwhile has an impressive list JESMYN WARD are getting the full story? Join journalists of an astonishing life: the story of OF PRIZES of composing credits to his name for Michael Hastings (US), Sean Plunket the child of heroin addicts who both feature films, television series and (NZ) and Caroline Moorehead (UK) in died of AIDS, he dropped out of high commercials and has worked with a a wide ranging discussion about the school and spent a few years in and myriad of Mäori directors and artists, ethics of journalism and the future out of prison before discovering his including traditional Mäori instrument of an independent fourth estate with artistic talent as a poet and the path players. They speak with Mike Chunn Mediawatch’s Colin Peacock. to redemption that it offered. A Tony about the composer’s life. Supported by Award later, a run of his solo theatre APRA/AMCOS. show (based on his life story) at New THE EXPATS York’s Public Theater was produced by filmmaker Spike Lee. Lemon 53. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 1.00-2.00PM SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES 56. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 2.30-3.30PM performs excerpts from his play, 61. SUNDAY MAY 13 – 4.00-5.00PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE speaks with Nick Dwyer and answers UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE AUCKLAND audience questions. A documentary Paula Morris’ and Stephanie Winner of the 2011 US National Book about Lemon Andersen (‘Lemon’) screens Literary prizes are often highly Johnson’s new novels each centre on AFTER HOURS: Award for Fiction and a 2012 Alex in the Documentary Edge Festival 2012 in contentious, with arguments regularly a real nineteenth-century ancestor Award for her second novel Salvage Auckland and Wellington in May. raging about judges, winners, criteria – Paratene Te Manu and Elizabeth CHRIS BOURKE the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written documentaryedge.org.nz and the ongoing tension between work Horelock Smith respectively. Rangatira a moving story of a Mississippi Gulf with broad public reach and more (2011) and The Open World (2012) are family and their community in the literary craft. In this special discussion, imaginative reconstructions of the 12-day period leading up to and just 58. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 2.30-3.30PM THE WOMAN WHO 2011 Booker Prize judge Dame Stella lives and times of these forebears in following the devastating Hurricane UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE Rimington joins New Zealanders Aotearoa New Zealand and in England. Katrina. Publishers Weekly labelled CHANGED HER BRAIN Stephen Stratford and Jenny Pattrick for How far do these tales deviate from Ward “a refreshing new voice in Martin Edmond (creative non-fiction a lively conversation with NZ Post Book historical ‘truth’? Is fictionalising American literature”. Ward’s work is writer), Anthony McCarten (novelist) Awards Governance Committee Chair real lives morally sound in the first evocative of a people and a place and and Anne Kennedy (poet) have a lot in – and non-award winning author – Sam place? Just how spooky does it get? explores universal themes of challenge common: New Zealanders who have Elworthy on if and how literary prizes In conversation with New Zealand and survival with an impressive cast off for other shores and established can remain relevant and serve writers, novelist Rachael King. 55. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 1.15-2.15PM intensity. She speaks with Finlay writing lives in Australia, London and booksellers, publishers and the public. AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM Macdonald. Hawai’i respectively, they have also Supported by Booksellers NZ. ranged outside their primary genres, THE COMPOSER’S Prizewinning Blue Smoke (2010) author particularly into film where all have Chris Bourke brings back to life the GETTING THE STORY accomplished résumés. They read from LIFE: NATHAN venues, sounds and changing dance their work and talk with Peter Wells 60. SUNDAY MAY 13 – 4.00-5.00PM fashions of the Auckland music scene about how much ‘New Zealand-ness’ LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE & JOEL HAINES – from the first cabarets and jazz bands remains a part of the fabric of their of the 1920s featured at the Dixieland writing endeavours, and the ways in Until recently, theories of neuroscience on Queen Street (now Real Groovy) to which scriptwriting differs from their have posited that the brain can not the arrival of rock ‘n’ roll in Auckland other pursuits. be changed, but the emerging field of in 1956. The latter drew teenagers to neuroplasticity is challenging this the Trades Hall in Hobson Street at view. In The Woman Who Changed the same time that more sophisticated COUNTY OF KINGS: Her Brain (2012), Canadian Barbara venues offering jazz combos, cabaret Arrowsmith Young reveals how she and groundbreaking liquor access were 57. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 2.30-3.30PM THE BEAUTIFUL developed a series of innovative brain becoming established for adults. Bourke LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE exercises to conquer her severe learning has spent years searching out the rare STRUGGLE disabilities. She speaks with Michael 54. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 1.00-2.00PM archival audio recordings, photos and One of the classic challenges of Corballis about overcoming major brain UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE ephemera that vividly illustrate the journalism is the tension between dysfunction and some of the clinical sights and sounds of Auckland at play. nurturing trusted relationships to mysteries and fascinating stories Brothers Nathan and Joel Haines are Introduced by Josie McNaught. Supported source stories and revealing what has she has encountered in her research. musicians and composers of note, each by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamäki. been discovered along the way. The Supported by HarperCollins. having carved out successful musical case of embedded journalists in war careers. The sons of an accomplished zones has brought this to the fore but, bassist, the pair spent their formative in truth, police, arts, sports, politics years performing around Auckland and other specialist journalists face the and joined the group Freebass in the same challenge. What happens when early 1990s. Nathan, who has produced maintaining good relationships and 59. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 4.00-5.00PM seven solo albums to date, has lived in future access directly conflicts with ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE both New York and London, where his reporting stories of public interest?

58 FIND SPECIAL EVENTS. FREE EVENTS. WRITERS ON CAMPUS. SUNDAY GALLERY SERIES. WORKSHOPS. BOOK AT WWW.BUYTICKETS.CO.NZ OR PHONE 09 357 3355 59 WORKSHOPS SPECIAL Workshop Location: encouraging new lyrical explorations. Creative non-fiction is an intriguing is for family and friends or designed as Goodman Fielder Room Both will be discussed in this workshop. pursuit, combining as it does what is on a book for publication. In this workshop, Level 4, Aotea Centre record with the vast reaches of a writer’s participants will be introduced to creative imagination. Martin Edmond techniques of writing memoir and CREATIVITY WORKSHOP is a master of the craft and in this special undertaking personal research for life EVENT WORKSHOP workshop he discusses the disciplines stories. It will cover how to plan and KATHRYN BURNETT required to identify source material develop the narrative and the pleasures 2012 HONOURED NEW ZEALAND WRITER JESMYN WARD and draw two sometimes competing and pitfalls of writing one’s own stories, BRAINSTORM strands together in a way that meets and offer a small practical exercise to the demands of the discerning reader. help shake up the memory. 65. SATURDAY MAY 12 – 10.00-11.30AM WORKSHOP CREATIVITY WORKSHOP See event 70.

WORKSHOP LUKA LESSON KATHRYN BURNETT CAROLINE MOOREHEAD MAKING IT REAL 63. FRIDAY MAY 11 – 11.15AM-12.45PM

Much of the power of National Book Prize winner Salvage The Bones (2011) lies in the coherence of the characters and their relationships – they seem very POETRY AND POLITICS BRAINSTORM real. Jesmyn Ward has been quoted as saying that some of the things in the 68. SUNDAY MAY 13 – 10.00-11.30AM 70. SUNDAY MAY 13 – 2.30-4.30PM book surprised her as she wrote them. THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY She will discuss the starting points of Australian Poetry Slam Champion and Kathryn Burnett returns with her fiction and how to manage characters 66. SATURDAY MAY 12 – 12.30-2.00PM co-director of The Centre for Poetics and highly popular ‘directed creativity’ as they develop on the writing page. Justice, Luka Lesson has been writing sessions, a fun way to generate new Caroline Moorehead is an accomplished hip-hop for seven years and competing ideas and get creatively invigorated. biographer and journalist with books on in poetry slams for three. He is an Designed to stimulate imagination, WORKSHOP Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark and, most exceptional writer with a particular this dynamic workshop will give the recently,a group of French resistance focus on the ways in which words right brain an invigorating two-hour HINEMOANA BAKER women who survived Auschwitz can be used to contribute to positive workout. Tutor Kathryn Burnett will MAURICE GEE recorded in A Train In Winter (2011). She community development and in this take participants through a series of will share skills and tips on how to shape workshop he will be exploring how to exercises – from simple brainstorming 62. SUNDAY MAY 13 — 5.30-6.30PM, ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE raw research material into well-crafted create change using the poetic arts. and writing to more complex exercises biography and the challenges of telling to help explore ideas. Attendees will not In 2012, the Auckland Writers generations of New Zealand writers real people’s stories. be required to work with others or share & Readers Festival announces and readers. Join Maurice Gee in WORKSHOP the fruits of their labour unless they an important new initiative: readings and conversation with want to. Pen and paper required. WORKSHOP the introduction of an chair Geoff Walker in this rare, not- FIONA KIDMAN Honoured New Zealand Writer. to-be missed event, the final session of the 2012 Auckland Writers & MARTIN EDMOND Conceived to celebrate New Zealand’s Readers Festival. LANGUAGE AND SOUND most accomplished writers, their body of work and the immense contribution Note: Under 18s will be eligible for a free 64. FRIDAY MAY 11 – 1.30-3.00PM they have made to the literary landscape ticket to this event which must be booked of New Zealand, we are delighted to through THE EDGE ticketing service. Poet and musician Hinemoana Baker welcome as our inaugural honouree the wrangles words, from published very distinguished Maurice Gee. Author poems on the page, to speaking of some of this country’s finest fiction improvised lines over the sounds of for adults and children, including In My recycled kitchen utensils covered LIFE WRITING AND MEMOIR Father’s Den (1978), Under The Mountain in contact microphones, or singing (1979), Plumb (1981), Going West (1985), poems over the looped sounds of her CREATIVE NON-FICTION 69. SUNDAY MAY 13 – 12.30-2.00PM Crime Story (1992) and Live Bodies (1998), diving gear. Her particular fascination alongside screenplays and short stories, is with the sounds words make and 67. SATURDAY MAY 12 – 2.30-4.00PM No life is ordinary. A record of his work has inspired and entertained she loves writing exercises as a way of experience always has value, whether it

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By Event 65. Kathryn Burnett: BrainStorm, 61 Krauss, Lawrence, 13, 47, 52 01. Spy Stories: Lunch with Stella Rimington, 43 66. Caroline Moorehead: The Art of Biography, 61 Lane, Aleksandra, 23, 56 02. New Zealand Listener Gala Night, 43 67. Martin Edmond: Creative Non-Fiction, 61 Lesson, Luka, 13, 51, 54, 61 03. Looking to Asia: Business Breakfast, 45 68. Luka Lesson: Poetry and Politics, 61 Lette, Kathy, 13, 53, 54 04. A Train in Winter: Caroline Moorehead, 45 69. Fiona Kidman: Life Writing and Memoir, 61 Macdonald, Finlay, 23, 46, 58 05. An Hour with Witi Ihimaera, 45 70. Kathryn Burnett: BrainStorm, 61 Manhire, Toby, 23, 46, 52, 06. McCahon and the Micronaut, 45 McCarten, Anthony, 23, 50, 59 07. Greg ‘Alix Bosco’ McGee, 46 Participants Index McGee, Greg, 23, 46 08. An Hour with Sebastian Barry, 46 Andersen, Lemon 11, 43, 51, 54, 59 McLauchlan, Gordon, 24, 51 09. Captain Bligh, 46 Arahanga, Te Awhina, 19, 56 McNaught, Josie, 24, 56, 57, 58 10. An Hour with Michael Hastings, 46 Arrowsmith Young, Barbara, 11, 49, 59 McWhannell, Francis, 24, 49 11. The Forrests: Emily Perkins, 46 Ashton, Penny, 19, 54, 56 Miller, A.D., 13, 46, 51, 57 12. Broken Britain, 46 Auckland Theatre Company, 19, 54 Moon, Paul, 24, 50, 57 13. An Hour with Charlotte Wood, 47 Baker, Hinemoana, 19, 60 Moorehead, Caroline, 14, 45, 58, 61 14. A Universe From Nothing: Barry, Sebastian, 11, 46, 50 Morris, Paula, 24, 46, 50, 58 Laurence Krauss, 47 Beattie, Graham, 19, 49 Morrow, Diana, 24, 51 15. Artemis Fowl and the Deltora Three, 47 Beu, Carole, 19, 45, 51 Nair, Chandran, 14, 45, 50 16. An Evening with Roddy Doyle, 47 Bishop, Tom, 19, 53 O’Brien, Greg, 24, 45, 53, 56, 57 17. An Hour with Peter James, 49 Blank, Anton, 19, 56 Oldfield, Natalie, 24, 52 18. Colenso: Peter Wells, 49 Bourke, Chris, 19, 58 Pattrick, Jenny, 24, 59 19. Helping Children with Learning Disabilities, 49 Boyd, Brian, 19, 53 Peacock, Colin, 24, 58 20. The Afghan War, 49 Brown, Russell, 19, 52 Peet, Mal, 14, 50 21. The Incredible Book Artist Oliver Jeffers, 49 Burnett, Kathryn, 20, 61 Pellegrino, Nicky, 24, 53, 54 22. The Future of the Novel, 50 Carlyon, Jenny, 20, 51 Perkins, Emily, 24, 46, 50, 57 23. NZ in the Twentieth Century, 50 Carter, Jacq, 20, 53, 56 Plunket, Sean, 24, 53, 58 24. In the Shadow of History, 50 Christie, Grant, 20, 47 Richards, Lily, 25, 50 25. Consumptionomics, 50 Chunn, Mike, 20, 58 Rimington, Stella, 14, 43, 46, 53, 59 26. An Hour with Anthony McCarten, 50 Colfer, Eoin, 11, 43, 47 Rodda, Emily, 15, 47, 56 27. A Fine Prospect: Auckland’s East, 51 Congreve, Robin, 20, 46 Rowe, Jennifer, 15, 56 28. Wild Poets: Extraordinary Words, 51 Corballis, Michael, 20, 59 Sali, 25, 51 29. Snowdrops: A.D. Miller, 51 Cronin, Jan, 20, 46 Salmond, Anne, 25, 46 30. An Hour with Dame Fiona, 51 Darby, Rhys, 20, 52 Scarborough, Zane, 25, 51 31. The Orator: Filmmaker Tusi Tamasese, 52 Davis, Vaughn, 20, 52 Sharp, Iain, 25, 53 32. Tweeting the Revolution, 52 De Goldi, Kate, 20, 43, 47, 56 Shieff, Sarah, 25, 54 33. High Tea: The Generosity of Food, 52 de Pont, Doris, 21, 57 Simpson, Peter, 25, 45 34. An Hour with Rhys Darby, 52 Diamond, Paul, 21, 46, 56 Sinclair, Sarah, 25, 45 35. The God Matter, 52 Doyle, Roddy, 11, 43, 47, 57 Sisterson, Craig, 25, 56 36. Small Holes in the Silence: A Tribute to Druett, Joan, 21, 50, 57 Spencer, Ruth, 25, 54 Hone Tuwhare, 53 Dwyer, Nick, 21, 59 Stirling, Pamela, 26, 43 37. An Hour with Stella Rimington, 53 Dyer, Geoff, 12, 43, 46, 57 Stratford, Stephen, 26, 51, 59 38. Why Lyrics Matter: Brian Boyd, 53 Edmond, Martin, 12, 45, 61 Sullivan, Fleur, 26, 52 39. Girls’ Night Out: Tastings and Tiaras, 53 Edwards, Brian, 21, 47, 59 Sullivan, Robert, 26, 56 40. Poetry Idol, 54 Elworthy, Sam, 21, 59 Tamasese, Tusi, 26, 52 41. Exile: An ATC Play Reading, 54 Eugenides, Jeffrey, 12, 50, 56 Taylor, Grace, 26, 51 42. An Hour with Kathy Lette, 54 Frizzell, Dick, 21, 56 Thomas, Paul, 26, 56 43. An Hour with Jeffrey Eugenides, 56 Gee, Maurice, 21, 60 Tuwhare, Rob, 26, 53 44. A Mind for Murder, 56 Geering, Lloyd, 21, 52 Urale, Sima, 26, 52 45. Ora Nui: A New Mäori Voice, 56 Gibson, Nevil, 21, 50 Vendramini, Danny, 15, 57 46. All About the Image: Dick Frizzell, 56 Gracewood, Jolisa, 21, 50 Walker, Geoff, 26, 60 47. Open Mike: Poetry Pleasures, 56 Green, Paula, 22, 56 Ward, Jesmyn, 15, 43, 50, 58, 60 48. Men Adrift, 57 Hager, Nicky, 22, 49 Wedde, Ian, 26, 53 49. An Hour with Joan Druett, 57 Haines, Joel, 22, 58 Wells, Peter, 26, 49, 59, 50. Them + Us, 57 Haines, Nathan, 22, 58 Wendt, Albert, 27, 53 51. Black in Fashion: Doris de Pont, 57 Hamilton, Scott, 22, 56 Wilson, Rodney, 27, 57 52. Life and Art: Geoff Dyer, 57 Harvey, Siobhan, 22, 56 Wilson, Tim, 27, 52 53. Dialling Up the Ancestors, 58 Hastings, Michael, 12, 46, 49, 58 Wood, Charlotte, 15, 47, 52, 57 54. The Composer’s Life: Nathan & Hirschfeld, Carol, 22, 43 Joel Haines, 58 Hoadley, Stephen, 22, 49 55. Auckland After Hours: Chris Bourke, 58 Hoar, Stuart, 22, 54 56. Salvage the Bones: Jesmyn Ward, 58 Horrocks, Dylan, 22, 49 57. Getting the Story, 58 Ihimaera, Witi, 22, 45, 53 58. The Expats, 59 Jacobs, Lauraine, 23, 52 59. County of Kings: The Beautiful Struggle, 59 James, Peter, 12, 49, 56 60. The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, 59 Jeffers, Oliver, 13, 43, 49 61. The Politics of Prizes, 59 Johnson, Stephanie, 23, 47, 58 62. Honoured New Zealand Writer: Kamali, Daren, 23, 51, 56 Maurice Gee, 60 Kennedy, Anne, 23, 43, 53, 56, 59 63. Jesmyn Ward: Making it Real, 60 Kidman, Fiona, 23, 45, 51, 61 64. Hinemoana Baker: Language and Sound, 60 King, Rachael, 23, 58

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