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Massey University Press
Massey University set up its own press back in February but has only just announced someone to run it - and that someone is publisher and former journalist and editor, Nicola Legat. Nicola comes to… Audio
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Poems, wives and children
Professor of Contemporary Poetry and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Britain's poet laureate, visiting New Zealand for the 2015 Auckland Writers… Audio
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Philip Ball: Science Writer
Philip Ball writes on all sorts of science-related topics, including theories of colour, invisibility, and music. Eva catches up with him ahead of his talks at the Auckland Writers Festival and for… Audio
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Auckland Writers Festival kicks off today...
The organisers of the Auckland Writers' Festival are pegging this year's event as the biggest yet. Audio
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Emily St John Mandel: Canadian Author
Emily St John Mandel's latest novel 'Station Eleven' recently won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction. She visits the Auckland Writers Festival this week, and tells Eva about… Audio
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Shakespeare scholar Peter Holland
University of Notre Dame scholar Peter Holland is fascinated with William Shakespeare's influence on modern culture. As part of the Auckland Writer's Festival; Peter is giving a talks called… Audio
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Graphic Poetry
We've all heard of graphic novels by now but what about graphic poetry? Auckland writer Rachel J Fenton is an exponent of this new hybrid art form and will be presenting selections of her work at the… Audio
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David Mitchell
Author of six novels, most recently The Bone Clocks, and translator with his wife Keiko Yoshida of The Reason I Jump, written at the age of 13 by autistic child Naoki Higishida. David Mitchell will… Audio
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Invisibility and curiosity
Editor for Nature magazine for over 20 years, and author of Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler, and… Audio
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Natalie Haynes: Writer
British writer coming to the Dunedin and Auckland Writers Festivals. Audio
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Tim Winton - Australian Classic
Writer Tim Winton has been named an Australian national treasure. His book, The Riders - now considered an Australian classic - was short-listed for the Man Booker prize for fiction, as was his 2002… Audio
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Helen Macdonald: raptor rapture
Professional falconer whose work in raptor research and conservation projects informed the writing of her book, H is for Hawk. She will visit New Zealand in May to speak at the 2015 Auckland Writers… Audio
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Ben Okri - London to Lagos
Novelist and poet Ben Okri had his first novel, Flowers and Shadows, published when he was 21, and has devoted much of his work to describing the social and political chaos in Nigeria, where he was… Audio
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Xinran - Buy Me the Sky
Xinran on her latest book 'Buy Me The Sky', about the impact of China's one-child policy on those born after 1970. She is coming to New Zealand for next month's Auckland Writers Festival. Audio
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Gallipoli - The Australian story
Journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, TV commentator, former radio presenter and national representative rugby union player whose new book is Gallipoli (Random House). He will be… Audio
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The power struggle in the South China Sea
Bill Hayton is a long-time journalist/foreign correspondent with the BBC, and a large portion of his career has been reporting on events in South East Asia, the dissension and the toxic manoeuverings… Audio
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Stephanie Johnson
Stephanie Johnson is an award-winning novelist, poet, playwright and co-founder of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. She's published eight novels, and is a past winner of the Montana Book… Audio
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From Vietnam to Canada: author Kim Thuy
Kim Thúy is a Canadian writer whose family fled Saigon as boat people during the Vietnam War. Her autobiographical novel Ru was an award winning bestseller - drawing on her refugee past. Her latest… Audio
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Atul Gawande - Being Mortal
Health science writer Dr Atul Gawande is coming to New Zealand for two events in the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival. He talks to Wallace about health care, how elderly people are treated, and where… Audio
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Ken Auletta : Google and the future
American journalist who has contributed to The New Yorker since 1977, and is the author of eleven books. He will visit New Zealand for the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival in May. Audio
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Amy Bloom
Amy Bloom is an American writer and psychotherapist, she is coming to Auckland Writers Festival next month. She is the author of three novels and three collections of short stories. Her latest novel… Audio
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Vona Groarke - X
The symbol 'X' can mean many things - X marks the spot where the treasure is hidden, it's a kiss at the end of a text, a place to put your signature, a mathematical symbol. Vona Groarke is a major… Audio
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Alan Cumming
Actor for stage and screen, broadcaster, director, designer, producer and musician, who will be speaking about family memoir, Not My Father's Son, at the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival. Audio
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British journalist and author Damian Barr
Damian Barr's first book Get it Together: A Guide to Surviving your Quarterlife Crisis. He interviewed 200 people in their twenties, showing that for most, their attitudes to work were their main… Audio
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The creation of Captain Underpants
Writer and illustrator Dav Pilkey has scored a huge worldwide hit with the childrens series Captain Underpants - ratcheting up sales of more than 70 million. Dav Pilkey is coming to NZ as part of the… Audio