Literature

This school holiday, Capital E are presenting a Book Bazaar as a way to get children excited about storytelling through words and pictures. To help them along, authors from Gecko Press are leading… Audio

Novelist and short story writer, Elspeth Sandys has published eight novels and two collections of short stories, and has written extensively for the BBC and Radio New Zealand. Her novel River Lines… Audio

We find out how Ron Sang manages to combine a busy career as an architect with being a contemporary art collector, award-winning writer and publisher. Audio

Poet, novelist, translator, anthologist, publisher, and author of the new book, The Novel: A Biography, visiting New Zealand as a guest of the NZ Centre for Literary Translation, in association with… Audio

Four TED speakers explore the art of storytelling - and how good stories have the power to transform our perceptions of the world. Featuring the TED Talks 1. Andrew Stanton: What Makes A Good Story… Audio

French writer and poet Jacques Roubaud is described as a senior statesman of European literature and world poetry. His latest translated book, Mathematics, pays homage to one of the great passions of… Audio

Staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Road to Middlemarch : My Life with George Eliot, detailing her relationship with the 1874 novel. Audio

Tennessee Williams, F Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cheever, Carver, Berryman… Six giants of American literature - and all addicted to alcohol. In her new book 'The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers… Audio

Why the books of Jane Austen are still so adored, even though Jane's most famous novel Pride and Prejudice was published 200 years ago, with Professor Janet Todd from Lucy Cavendish College at the… Audio

Novelist, short story writer, anthologist and librettist, described by the Sunday Star Times as the Senior Statesman of New Zealand fiction. Audio

A lively exploration of the life of Shakespeare's wife by the noted writer and social critic Germaine Greer, recorded at the 2012 NZ International Arts Festival. Linda Hardy is in the chair. Audio

Janet Frame's niece, Pamela Gordon, has edited a new collection of short non-fiction and unseen material written by her aunt, one of New Zealand's most influential writers. Audio

"Although this is not the truth, it's actual." Beginning with readings from the self-described "odd men out" of New Zealand literature, this session traces Greg McGee's writing of a TV mini-series on… Audio

Lucy Orbell looks back at the work of Ronald Hugh Morrison and a festival in his honour today in Hawera. Audio

Burning Fires: Maori Writers speak #2 The Waipapa Hui Waipapa Marae was built on the edge of Auckland University staff an d students following progtests by the Maori students association during the… Audio

Burning Fires: Maori Writers speak #1 The Tapu Te Ranga hui Tapu Te Ranga Marae in Island Bay Wellington was built by Playwright, TV and Short story writer Bruce Stewart and others. In April 1992… Audio