May
09
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Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
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, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book). Her latest novel is The Carhullan Army (2007).
Sarah Hall will be appearing in the following events:
14. History and the Novel
Thursday 15 May | 6:00 - 7:00pm
16. The New Zealand Listener Opening Night
Thursday 15 May | 8:00 - 9:15pm
23. An Hour with Sarah Hall
Friday 16 May | 2:30 - 3:30pm
62. Books Left on Buses
Sunday 18 May | 7:00 - 8:00pm
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