Auckland Writers Festival
Nguyen Phan Que Mai: Vietnamese stories behind the war
Vietnamese author Dr Nguy n Phan Qu Mai's Dust Child tackles the difficult subject of Amerasian children, left behind when the American military fled after the Vietnam War. Audio
Auckland Writers Artistic Curator, Bridget van der Zijpp
The Auckland Writers Festival gets underway in May with the festival promising a star-studded program. There will be Pulitzer, Booker and T.S. Eliot prize-winning authors. Auckland will also host… Audio
Auckland Writers Festival | Waituhi o Tamaki Programme Launched
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tamaki Director Anne O'Brien joins us with a preview of the 2022 festival. Audio
A Clear Dawn: anthology of emerging Asian writers
A new book is helping to showcase the wealth of writing talent from Asian writers in New Zealand. The 75 writers featured in A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand have roots… Audio
Actor Juliet Stevenson: Pandemic theatre
British actor Juliet Stevenson narrates Blindness, a major international, socially-distanced theatre experience coming to the Auckland Writers Festival. Blindness is adapted from the novel of the same… Audio
Carla Guelfenbein - In the Distance with You
Carla Guelfenbein is a novelist and screenwriter and was born in Santiago to a Russian-Jewish family. She is one of Chile's bestselling writers and the author of five novels including In the Distance… Audio
Man, sitting in a garden
A new New Zealand work with a libretto by Witi Ihimaera and a score by Kenneth Young, inspired in part by the garden paintings of Karl Maughan, debuts at the Auckland Writers Festival next week. Audio
Anne Michaels - Canadian poet and author of Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the… Audio
Artemis Cooper - Doyenne of the historical biography
Artemis Cooper is the author and co-editor of a wide of non-fiction titles including three major biographies: on the author, scholar and adventurer Patrick Leigh Fermor, novelist and wife of Sir… Audio
Sir Antony Beevor: acclaimed historian coming to Auckland Writers Festival
British pre-eminent military historian Sir Antony Beevor's coming to Auckland Writer's Festival in May. He speaks to Jim about what history can tell us about the future. Audio
Val Emmich: The Reminders and Dear Evan Hansen
American singer-songwriter, actor and novelist Val Emmich joins Kathryn to talk about his transition from musician to writer, and how he turned the hit Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen into a novel… Audio
Musical events a major focus of Auckland Writers Festival
Auckland Writers Festival director Anne O’Brien previews this year’s programme. Audio
David Christian: getting our heads around history
Historian David Christian's work incorporates a history of everything - from the big bang to the first stars, to fossil fuels and mass globalisation. He started a movement called Big History that asks… Audio
Eileen Myles - A Dog Memoir
Poet, novelist, performer, librettist, and one-time presidential candidate Eileen Myles moved to New York to be a poet in 1974. They found fame as part of the St Mark's Poetry Project, studying with… Audio
Francis Wade - Myanmar's Enemy Within
Francis Wade is a UK foreign correspondent who is a Myanmar specialist. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, Asia Times Online, Foreign Policy, and Los Angeles Review of Books… Audio
Jeff Goodell: 'No matter what we do, sea levels will rise'
"Miami became a popular diving spot where people could swim among sharks and barnacled SUVs and explore the wreckage of the great American city". A new book looks at coastal cities in a world of… Audio
Musical scholar Alex Ross
Alex Ross is the music critic for The New Yorker and the author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century. He will appear at the Auckland Writers Festival and talk about his latest work, on… Audio
The big names for the Auckland Writers Festival
New Zealand has been inundated with fantastic talent from around the world here for the various festivals on this month. The Auckland Writers Festival in May is also attracting some big names… Audio
Upbeat for Thursday 15 March
Auckland Writers Festival announces its programme for the May Festival; Jennifer Shennan reviews the Irish Swan Lake, but not as you know it and we bring you another concerto that you have to hear. We… Video
Jesse Blackadder: Sixty Seconds
Award-winning Australian author Jesse Blackadder says if her new novel helps raise awareness of the risks of children drowning that will be a bonus. She speaks to Kathryn Ryan about her new novel… Audio