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Wednesday 9th May
Date: Wednesday 9th May 2012 - Thursday 10th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 02:30 p.m.
Venue: AOTEA CENTRE, AUCKLAND
Category: FILM AND THEATRE, INTERNATIONAL FICTION, NZ FICTION, NZ NON FICTION, POETRY, SPOKEN WORD AND COMEDY, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS, WAR, REVOLUTION AND JOURNALISM, YOUNG READERS
Price: Please download programme for further information.
CELEBRATING WRITING, BOOKS AND WRITING
The Auckland Writers & Readers Festival is delighted to once again present its much-anticipated Schools’ Programme, in the Aotea Centre in Auckland on...
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Thursday 10th May
Date: Thursday 10th May 2012
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: Soul Bar & Restaurant
Category: CRIME AND INTRIGUE, GREAT READS, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: Standard $95, Patrons $76
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT - You can still see Dame Stella in An Hour with Stella Rimington.
Dame Stella Rimington has lived a myriad of lives: archivist, diplomat’s wife, spymaster and...
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Date: Thursday 10th May 2012
Time: 07:00 p.m. - 08:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: Earlybird $35, Standard $40, Patrons $32, Students $20
The highly successful ‘True Stories Told Live’ format, developed by the NZ Book Council, returns to launch this year’s Festival in an hour and half of live and true storytelling,...
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Friday 11th May
Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 07:30 a.m. - 09:00 a.m.
Venue: THE LANGHAM, AUCKLAND
Category: POLITICS AND BUSINESS, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: Standard $60, Patrons $52. Tables of 8 can be booked together - buy 7 get 8th free: Standard $420, Patrons $336
With our future inextricably linked to Asia, the issues facing that continent are ones of major importance. International speaker and expert on globalisation in Asia, Chandran Nair (Malaysian-born, now based...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
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.
Caroline Moorehead ’s book recounts the...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, NZ FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
The Parihaka Woman is Witi Ihimaera ’s first publication since his controversial The Trowenna Sea (2009).
This new book is an eclectic combination of fiction and history with echoes of traditional...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Venue: GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: WORKSHOPS
Price: All participants $40. Booked by Monday 7 May. Concession passes, student discounts and earlybird discounts not eligible.
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 real.
Jesmyn Ward has been quoted as...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: NZ NON FICTION, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Martin Edmond and Gregory O’Brien illuminate the pilgrimages undertaken to get to the heart of two New Zealand artists abroad.
In Dark Night: Walking with McCahon (2011) Edmond retraces...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: GREAT READS, NZ FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Successful pseudonyms are rare in New Zealand, but Greg McGee well and truly pulled it off.
As Alix Bosco he won the Ngaio Marsh Crime Award for Cut and Run (2009), and was shortlisted for the same...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Prizewinning and Booker-nominated Irish novelist, playwright and poet, Sebastian Barry has kept company with Lilly, the main character of his new novel On Canaan’s Side (2011), since 1993 when she featured...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, NZ NON FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Luminary historian Dame Anne Salmond speaks with Paul Diamond about her internationally acclaimed triumph Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas (2011), a history inspired by her research for the earlier ...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 01:30 p.m. - 03:00 p.m.
Venue: GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: WORKSHOPS
Price: All participants $40. Booked by Monday 7 May. Concession passes, student discounts and earlybird discounts not eligible.
Poet and musician Hinemoana Baker wrangles words, from published poems on the page to speaking improvised lines over the sounds of recycled kitchen utensils covered in contact microphones, or singing poems over the...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue:
Category: WAR, REVOLUTION AND JOURNALISM
Price: CANCELLED
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. FOR INFORMATION ON EXCHANGING OR REFUNDING TICKETS PLEASE CLICK HERE .
The removal of General McChrystal as Troop Commander in Afghanistan was directly attributable to a ...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, NZ FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her - she lives in the flickering moment.
From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland,...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: POLITICS AND BUSINESS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
These are challenging times for Britain, with economic crises across much of Europe and political, social, financial and cultural issues to the fore in the United Kingdom.
English residents...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Rising star of Australian fiction Charlotte Wood comes to New Zealand with her recent novel Animal People (2011).
Moving, funny and quintessentially Australian, Animal People takes place on a single Sydney...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
In the mere span of a human lifetime, our understanding of the universe has changed completely.
Celebrated prize-winning scientist, public intellectual and accomplished speaker Professor Lawrence...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: YOUNG READERS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl, creation of the inimitable Eoin Colfer , has been entertaining readers for the past 10 years, with the last of the series Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian due out shortly. ...
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Date: Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 07:00 p.m. - 08:15 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, INTERNATIONAL FICTION, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: Earlybird $35, Standard $40, Patrons $32, Students $20
Booker Prize winner and Irishman Roddy Doyle first stole our hearts with his novel The Commitments (1987), which was turned into the incredibly popular 1991 film of the same name.
Since then he has published a...
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Saturday 12th May
Date: Saturday 12th May 2012 - Friday 11th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Venue: GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: WORKSHOPS
Price: All participants $40. Booked by Monday 7 May. Concession passes, student discounts and earlybird discounts not eligible.
Kathryn Burnett returns with her highly popular “directed creativity” sessions, a fun way to generate new ideas and get creatively invigorated.
Designed to stimulate imagination, this dynamic...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: CRIME AND INTRIGUE, GREAT READS, INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Award-winning crime writer Peter James , whose books have sold more than 11 million copies worldwide, continues to shepherd his detective Roy Grace through a myriad of mysteries.
The latest, Dead...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, NZ NON FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Early missionary William Colenso slipped off the historical map, to be known only as a difficult person, a bristlingly square peg in a round hole.
In 2011 Peter Wells published The Hungry Heart - Journeys with...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: FREE
The Canadian Arrowsmith Program is founded on the philosophy that it is possible to treat learning disabilities by identifying and strengthening cognitive capacities.
Based on the personal experience of its...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: FISHER & PAYKEL AUDITORIUM, UNIVERISTY OF AUCKLAND
Category: POLITICS AND BUSINESS, WAR, REVOLUTION AND JOURNALISM
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Writers on Campus
PLEASE NOTE: MICHAEL HASTINGS IS NO LONGER APPEARING AT THIS EVENT. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings ’s piece on the US troops...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: INTERNATIONAL FICTION, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS, YOUNG READERS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Wear your most colourful woollen jumper and bring your children to celebrate the publication of Oliver Jeffers ’ The Hueys.
An exquisite artist and creator of much-loved, award-winning books including ...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
In The Marriage Plot (2011), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides ’ latest novel, Madeleine Hanna posits the theory that the novel as a form has been fatally wounded by the modern breakdown of...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, FREE EVENTS, HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, NZ NON FICTION
Price: FREE
Dr. Paul Moon is one of New Zealand’s most prolific historians, producing 19 books in 13 years.
He is also one of our most controversial, having had several public stoushes on subjects including versions...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: FISHER & PAYKEL AUDITORIUM, UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
Category: FINE FICTION, HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Writers on Campus
Three of the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival’s international fiction stars discuss setting their fictional stories in the shadow of real, sometimes overwhelming,...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: WORKSHOPS
Price: All participants $40. Booked by Monday 7 May. Concession passes, student discounts and earlybird discounts not eligible.
Caroline Moorehead is an accomplished biographer and journalist with books on Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark and, most recently,a group of French resistance women who survived Auschwitz recorded in A Train In Winter...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: POLITICS AND BUSINESS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Author, investment advisor and think tank founder Chandran Nair is a second-generation Malay of Indian descent, now based in Hong Kong.
He advocates a new model of capitalism for Asian economies –...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FILM AND THEATRE, GREAT READS, NZ FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Expat New Zealand writer, scriptwriter and film director Anthony McCarten returns home with two new novels.
In the Absence of Heroes (2012) is a sequel to his award-winning Death of a Superhero (2006), now...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, NZ NON FICTION
Price: FREE
Following on from their highly successful history of Ponsonby, historians Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow turn their attention to Auckland’s beautiful eastern suburbs of Remuera, Meadowbank and St Johns on...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: FISHER & PAYKEL AUDITORIUM, UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
Category: POETRY, SPOKEN WORD AND COMEDY
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Writers on Campus
Enjoy an hour of spoken word performance with seven amazing artists: Tony award-winning Def Jam artist Lemon Andersen and Australian Poetry Slam Champion Luka Lesson ...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: CRIME AND INTRIGUE, FINE FICTION, GREAT READS, INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
A.D. Miller ’s first novel Snowdrops (2011) shot him to instant fame with a short listing for the Man Booker Prize.
A portrait of moral decline in Moscow, Snowdrops draws us into a city of neon lusts...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, NZ FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
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 changes lives, it destroys – but it also illuminates...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FILM AND THEATRE, FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
One of the standout New Zealand films of 2011, Tusi Tamasese ’s The Orator is the first full length film made in Samoan.
It wowed audiences and critics at home and abroad, premiering in competition...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: FISHER & PAYKEL AUDITORIUM, UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
Category: WAR, REVOLUTION AND JOURNALISM
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
In 2010 Malcolm Gladwell wrote The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted for The New Yorker .
Eighteen months on, events in the Middle East potentially challenge the thesis while discussions continue on...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 04:00 p.m.
Venue: GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: WORKSHOPS
Price: All participants $40. Booked by Monday 7 May. Concession passes, student discounts and earlybird discounts not eligible.
Creative non-fiction is an intriguing pursuit, combining as it does what is on record with the vast reaches of a writer’s creative imagination.
Martin Edmond is a master of the craft and in this...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 03:30 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: THE LANGHAM AUCKLAND
Category: SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: Standard $55, Patrons $44
A celebration of love, food and family, this pre Mothers’ Day High Tea treat brings together winning cooks and food writers to talk about how food comforts and nourishes, and how giving and sharing...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: NZ FICTION, POETRY, SPOKEN WORD AND COMEDY
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
In This Way To Spaceship (2012) internationally acclaimed New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby delivers a “handy, loosely autobiographical, end of the world companion” inspired by the predicted Armageddon...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
American physicist and intellectual Lawrence Krauss , in his new book A Universe from Nothing (2012), argues that quantum physics has clearly established no God is...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, NZ FICTION, POETRY, SPOKEN WORD AND COMEDY
Price: FREE
In 1964, Hone Tuwhare published his first book of poetry No Ordinary Sun . It sold an astounding 700 copies in ten days and was reprinted 13 times. He went on to become our best loved poet ever.
Last year...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: CRIME AND INTRIGUE, GREAT READS, INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Rip Tide (2012) is the sixth of the Liz Carlyle thriller novels, which began in 2004 with the publication of At Risk , earning Dame Stella Rimington a reputation as a crafter of rollicking “insider”...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: NZ NON FICTION, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Professor Brian Boyd is the world’s leading Nabokov scholar, as well as a professor of English at The University of Auckland, with a wide interest in language and story.
His most recent Nabokov...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 06:30 p.m. - 08:30 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM & ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: GREAT READS, INTERNATIONAL FICTION, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: Standard $55, Patron $44
An evening of wine, food and fun is in store in the company of international writing diva Kathy Lette , author of a myriad of hilarious and provocative novels for women from Puberty Blues (1979) to her latest The...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 07:00 p.m. - 08:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM , AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, NZ FICTION, POETRY, SPOKEN WORD AND COMEDY
Price: FREE
1939. Exiled German poet Helmut Lagerbrutenfeldt washes up on Auckland’s North Shore. The arrival of a literary star causes much excitement at first, but soon the local literati find themselves challenged by...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 07:30 p.m. - 08:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
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...
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Date: Saturday 12th May 2012
Time: 07:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: POETRY, SPOKEN WORD AND COMEDY, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: All tickets $15
We’re delighted to once again bring you Poetry Idol, a rambunctious, sell-out slam in which 10 poets, from fledglings to the more experienced, go head-to-head for the Festival Champion crown.
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Sunday 13th May
Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
One of the major writers of his generation, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer Jeffrey Eugenides has followed up the enormous successes of The Virgin Suicides (2003) and Middlesex (2002) with...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: CRIME AND INTRIGUE
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
PLEASE NOTE: Due to family illness, Jennifer Rowe has had to return to Australia early and will not be able to participate in the A Mind for Murder panel, to be chaired by Craig Sisterson on...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
The launch of Ora Nui , a new journal of Maori writing edited by Anton Blank , was prompted by a passionate belief that the Maori urban and middle class creative voice has been largely silenced by a...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Venue: GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: WORKSHOPS
Price: All participants $40. Booked by Monday 7 May. Concession passes, student discounts and earlybird discounts not eligible.
Australian Poetry Slam Champion and co-director of The Centre for Poetics and Justice, Luka Lesson has been writing hip-hop for seven years and competing in poetry slams for three.
He’s an exceptional...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Venue: AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM
Category: NZ NON FICTION, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Sunday Gallery Series
In It’s All About The Image (2011), artist Dick Frizzell takes us on a personal tour of New Zealand art via an eclectic mix of major New Zealand paintings, explaining why these...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 10:15 a.m. - 01:15 p.m.
Venue: AIR NEW ZEALAND FOYER
Category: FREE EVENTS, POETRY, SPOKEN WORD AND COMEDY
Price: FREE
Continuing this much-loved Festival tradition, published poets will read for ten minutes at 25 minute intervals and the rest of the time five minute slots are available to anyone who wants to read – just put your...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
In an age of changing gender roles, three fine novelists come together to discuss the ‘lost’ men at the centre of their storytelling.
Roddy Doyle ’s Bullfighting (2011) is a collection...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, NZ NON FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
One of New Zealand’s most popular writers, Joan Druett writes both history and historical novels.
Her lasting creation, Maori whaler Wiki Coffin, features in a series of mystery novels set along the...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA THEATRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Price: FREE
Danny Vendramini ’s book Them + Us: How Neanderthal Predation Created Modern Humans expounds the controversial theory that Eurasian Neanderthals hunted, killed and cannibalised early humans for 50,000 years,...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Venue: AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM
Category: NZ NON FICTION, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Sunday Gallery Series
An illustrated romp through the history of black in New Zealand fashion with Doris de Pont , Fashion Museum founding trustee and editor of new book Black: The History of Black in Fashion,...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: WORKSHOPS
Price: All participants $40. Booked by Monday 7 May. Concession passes, student discounts and earlybird discounts not eligible.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
No life is ordinary. A record of experience always has value, whether it is for family and friends or designed as a book for publication.
In this workshop, participants...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FILM AND THEATRE, INTERNATIONAL FICTION, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Geoff Dyer is acclaimed for his genre-defying writing, crossing as it does both subject matter (war, film, jazz, photography, literature, travel) and style (criticism, creative non-fiction, commentary, journalism,...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, NZ FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Paula Morris ’ and Stephanie Johnson ’s new novels each centre on a real nineteenth-century ancestor – Paratene Te Manu and Elizabeth Horelock Smith respectively.
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
Price: FREE
Brothers Nathan and Joel Haines are musicians and composers of note, each having carved out successful musical careers.
The sons of an accomplished bassist, the pair spent their formative years performing...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 01:15 p.m. - 02:15 p.m.
Venue: AUCKLAND ART GALLERY AUDITORIUM
Category: NZ NON FICTION, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Sunday Gallery Series
Prize-winning Blue Smoke (2010) author Chris Bourke brings back to life the venues, sounds and changing dance fashions of the Auckland music scene – from the first cabarets and...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, INTERNATIONAL FICTION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Winner of the 2011 US National Book Award for Fiction and a 2012 Alex Award for her second novel Salvage the Bones , Jesmyn Ward has written a moving story of a Mississippi Gulf family and their community in the...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA ROOM
Category: WAR, REVOLUTION AND JOURNALISM
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
One of the classic challenges of journalism is the tension between nurturing trusted relationships to source stories and revealing what has been discovered along the way.
The case of embedded...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FILM AND THEATRE, FREE EVENTS, NZ NON FICTION
Price: FREE
Martin Edmond (creative non-fiction writer), Anthony McCarten (novelist) and Anne Kennedy (poet) have a lot in common: New Zealanders who have cast off for other shores and established writing lives...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 04:30 p.m.
Venue: GOODMAN FIELDER ROOM, LEVEL 4, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: WORKSHOPS
Price: All participants $40. Booked by Monday 7 May. Concession passes, student discounts and earlybird discounts not eligible.
Kathryn Burnett returns with her highly popular “directed creativity” sessions, a fun way to generate new ideas and get creatively invigorated.
Designed to stimulate imagination, this dynamic...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, POETRY, SPOKEN WORD AND COMEDY, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
County of Kings is spoken word performer Lemon Andersen ’s memoir of an astonishing life: the story of the child of heroin addicts who both died of AIDS, he dropped out of high school and spent a few years in...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50
Until recently, theories of neuroscience have posited that the brain can not be changed but the emerging field of neuroplasticity is challenging this view.
In The Woman Who Changed Her Brain (2012), Canadian ...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 07:00 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, THE ARTS - FASHION, MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS
Price: FREE
Literary prizes are often highly contentious, with arguments regularly raging about judges, winners, criteria and the ongoing tension between work with broad public reach and more literary craft.
In...
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Date: Sunday 13th May 2012
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FINE FICTION, NZ FICTION, YOUNG READERS
Price: Earlybird $20, Standard $25, Patrons $16, Students $12.50. FREE FOR UNDER 18s (Tickets must be booked)
In 2012, the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival announces an important new initiative: the introduction of an Honoured New Zealand Writer.
Conceived to celebrate New Zealand’s most accomplished...
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