Not enough diversity in your reading diet? Here are 21 reasons to buy/borrow/read books by Maori and Pasifika writers right away.
07/06/2017
Not enough diversity in your reading diet? Here are 21 reasons to buy/borrow/read books by Maori and Pasifika writers right away.
What kind of house does our literature inhabit?
07/06/2017
What kind of house does our literature inhabit?
Bernadette Hall and Lloyd Jones discuss the mysteries of language, dangerous jokes and pitching tents in strange lands.
23/02/2017
‘The magic occurs in the connecting but voice is what makes us believe.’
Catherine Robertson travels to Kenya to shed light on the shadows in her family history.
23/02/2017
Catherine Robertson travels to Kenya to shed light on the shadows in her family history.
On the face of it, New Zealand's turn as guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair four years ago was a great success. But what have our writers and publishers got to show for it? Mark Broatch investigates.
08/12/2016
On the face of it, New Zealand’s turn as guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair four years ago was a great success. But what have our writers and publishers got to show for it? Mark Broatch investigates.
Philip Temple and Diane Brown - from Dunedin to Heidelburg, UNESCO Cities of Literature.
08/12/2016
Philip Temple and Diane Brown – from Dunedin to Heidelburg, UNESCO Cities of Literature.
Bernard Brown's eulogy for acclaimed writer and ANZL Fellow Sir James McNeish.
24/11/2016
‘Sir James – literary knight and gentleman’
Iain Sharpe grills Kevin Ireland on Crump, Bogart and the New Zealand 'voice'.
10/10/2016
‘I named myself after a street in Ponsonby’
David Larsen investigates recent film adaptations of contemporary New Zealand fiction.
10/10/2016
David Larsen investigates recent film adaptations of contemporary New Zealand fiction.
Heidi North-Bailey returns to China as the New Zealand Fellow on the Shanghai Writing Program.
22/09/2016
Heidi North-Bailey returns to China as the New Zealand Fellow on the Shanghai Writing Program.
Elizabeth Smither and David Hill 'talk of many things', including being a Poet Laureate, and thinking of audiences as rabbits.
02/09/2016
‘The big issues are always lurking, even in the smallest subjects’
Philip Matthews explores the glorious past and isolated present of Dunedin, now a UNESCO City of Literature.
02/09/2016
Philip Matthews explores the glorious past and isolated present of Dunedin, now a UNESCO City of Literature.
Vana Manasiadis returns to Greece to explore translation, navigation and disorientation.
02/09/2016
Vana Manasiadis returns to Greece to explore translation, navigation and disorientation.
Fiona Kidman talks to Kelly Ana Morey about real life and other fictions.
02/08/2016
‘I tend to live inside my characters for a long time when I’m thinking about a book.’
Lawrence Patchett explores the riches of creative nonfiction in New Zealand.
02/08/2016
Lawrence Patchett explores the riches of creative nonfiction in New Zealand.
Barbara Else and Robert Glancy debate contemporary wit in the NZ novel.
02/08/2016
Barbara Else and Robert Glancy debate contemporary wit in the NZ novel.
Selina Tusitala Marsh on coconuts and colonialism.
02/08/2016
Selina Tusitala Marsh on coconuts and colonialism.
John McCrystal talks to Owen Marshall about his recent work and the landscape of his imagination.
30/06/2016
‘We search for fellows to hold hands with in the surging progress that is human experience.’
Victor Rodger wonders where all the Pasifika novelists are.
30/06/2016
Victor Rodger wonders where all the Pasifika novelists are.
Rosetta Allan goes to Russia in search of monsters.
30/06/2016
Rosetta Allan goes to Russia in search of monsters.
The last sponsor abandoned them, but David Larsen finds that reports of the death of our national literature awards have been greatly exaggerated.
16/05/2016
The last sponsor abandoned them, but David Larsen finds that reports of the death of our national literature awards have been greatly exaggerated.
Our local crime novelists are finding success overseas, but Rosabel Tan asks why more people aren’t reading them here?
15/05/2016
Our local crime novelists are finding success overseas, but Rosabel Tan asks why more people aren’t reading them here?
Patricia Grace talks to Adam Dudding about finding her voice, learning to love research, and why character is at the heart of everything she writes.
10/05/2016
‘I’d always been interested in writing without really knowing what real invented writing was’.
Steven Toussaint investigates the contemporary New Zealand poetry scene, and discovers much more than a tale of two cities.
09/05/2016
Steven Toussaint investigates the contemporary New Zealand poetry scene, and discovers much more than a tale of two cities.
'Character to some extent is much a construction of the reader as it is of the writer.' - Lloyd Jones