May
09
By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Friday, May 09, 2008
Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria, England. Her first novel, Haweswater, was published in 2002. Set in the 1930s, it focuses on one family - the Lightburns - and is a rural tragedy about the disintegration of a community of Cumbrian hill-farmers, due to the building of a reservoir. It won several awards, including the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best First Book). Her second book, The Electric Michelangelo (2004), set in the turn-of-the-century seaside resorts of Morecambe Bay and Coney Island, wa
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May
07
By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Tickets to 'Do All Your Eating at a Table: Lunch with Michael Pollan' are selling fast. Join Michael Pollan, author of In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating and the bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, and MC Lauraine Jacobs
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May
07
By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Peter Ho Davies was born in Coventry to Welsh and Chinese parents, and is the author of two volumes of short stories and a novel. His first published collection of short stories was The Ugliest House in the World (1998), which contains tales set in Malaysia, South Africa and Patagonia. This collection won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award and the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second collection, Equal Love, was published in 2000. In 2003, Davies was named one of Granta
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May
07
By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
John Burnside is a poet and novelist, born in Dunfermline, Scotland. The author of 21 books, he has won, among other prizes, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Feast Days (1992) and the Whitbread Poetry Award for The Asylum Dance (2000). George Szirtes has said of him: ‘his imagination relies on metamorphoses, hints of witchcraft, on notions and dreams of gender and family, and exile from these ... its antennae are tuned to the buzz and flap of nature’.
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May
02
By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Friday, May 02, 2008
THE ONE DAY ASB PASS!
Escape the ordinary - the ideal option for the undecided (“I might change my mind about what I want to see”); the perfect gift for mums in desperate need of a weekend away from the bedlam; brilliant for anyone who needs a day (or three) of inspiration away from the hum drum of daily life. The One Day Pass gives you access to all of the events in the ASB Theatre on the day in question … think of it as an autumnal “Big Day In”.
THE SUPER PASS
The Festival Super Pass entitles the holder to admission to any and all Festival events at the Aotea Centre! The number of Festival Super Passes is strictly limited.
For more information on concession passes click here ...
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Apr
30
By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defence of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. His previous book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006), was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by The New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and the James Beard Award for best food writing. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001); A Place of My Own (1997); and Second Nature (1991). Pollan served for many years as executive editor of Harper’s Magazine and is now
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Apr
30
By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008
Luke Davies is the Australian author of three novels, the cult bestseller Candy, Isabelle the Navigator and his recent novel, God of Speed. He has also written numerous books of poetry. Of these, Running With Light won the 2000 Judith Wright ‘Calanthe’ Poetry Prize at the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, and Totem won the Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the Age Poetry Book of the Year and overall Age Book of the Year in 2004. He adapted Candy for screen, with director Neil Armfield. The film version stars the late Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush, and was released to critical acclaim in
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Apr
30
By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008
No other form of the written word can make the reader swoon, or cringe, quite like the raw power of poetry. Poetry, as always, features prominently in the festival programme. This year's poetry events are ...
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Apr
30
By Auckland Writers & Readers Festival on
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008
We know there are dog-eared festival programmes littering desks, coffee tables, cars and bedrooms all around New Zealand as decisions are made about what can’t be missed at the festival in May. A tip for those of you who haven’t already booked - you’ve got two weeks before Door Sale prices come into effect on Wednesday 14 May ($19.50 tickets go up to $22; $16.50 tickets go up to $19). We’d definitely advise booking in advance if you possibly can.
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