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2024 Programmes

Kiran Dass

Kiran Dass
Writer and critic Kiran Dass is Programme Director for WORD Christchurch and has written about books, music and culture for a variety of publications including NZ Herald, NZ Listener, Guardian, The Wire, North & South, Metro, The Spinoff, RNZ, Sunday magazine, Sunday Star-Times and Vice. In 2020 she was awarded a Michael King Writers Centre Residency. Dass is a judge for the 2024 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and was convening judge for the same prize in 2021. She reviews books regularly on RNZ's Nine to Noon.

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Podcasts

  • Event 29

    Ireland: Small Island, Literary Powerhouse

    Ireland: Small Island, Literary Powerhouse

    Fri, 17 May 2024
    2:30pm - 3:30pm

  • Event 57

    Writing Across Generations

    Writing Across Generations

    Sat, 18 May 2024
    10:00am - 11:00am
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