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Writers Week 2014 starts today
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Writers from around the world are
flocking to Wellington today to celebrate a most unshakeable human desire:
to put pen to paper – or fingers to keys – and share a story. With more
than 50 events happening over six days, Writers Week features something for
lovers of every genre.
We are also very excited to be
presenting for the first time a selection of workshops
and seminars for writers, illustrators and dedicated readers.
So grab a fellow booklover and
lose – or maybe find – yourself in our world of words!
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Children’s books for readers big and small
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Where the Wild Things Are fans will enjoy this special opportunity to learn
Maurice Sendak’s classic tale in te reo Māori. This will be a fun
and engaging session, led by storyteller and teacher Te Kahureremoa
Taumata.
If
anyone knows how to take an idea and make it pop, it’s Belgian author and
illustrator Leo Timmers. The creator of Who’s
Driving? and Bang! will join an award-winning
Wellington designer for a conversation about his “fast, funny and
furious” children’s books.
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8 Mar | Embassy Theatre / Hannah Playhouse
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Of
Aboriginal, West Indian and Irish descent, author Tony Birch lives by the
credo “you’ll be great, but only if you work your arse off”. He’ll be
working hard during Writers Week, discussing his latest book with poet
Robert Sullivan in the session Nothing
is Written in Stone, and joining fellow indigenous
authors for the launch of a special edition of Māori
literary journal Ora Nui.
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10 Mar | Embassy Theatre
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A
Jamaican writer now based in Glasgow, Kei Miller has published three
poetry collections, two novels and a new book of “essays and prophecies”,
Writing
Down the Vision. Miller will join novelist Tina Makereti.
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12 Mar | Embassy Theatre
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As
well as translating into Catalan books by Edward Gorey and novels by the
likes of Paul Auster, Jordi Puntí writes about culture and football for
the press. Hear this promising new voice of Catalan literature in
conversation with poet Michael Harlow about Punti’s latest novel, Lost
Luggage – winner of the National Critics’ Award, the Catalan
Booksellers’ Prize and the Lletra d’Or.
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11 Mar | Embassy Theatre
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Join
intrepid Australian writer and social commentator Monica Dux for a
refreshingly frank conversation about being female. Her latest book, Things I
Didn’t Expect (When I Was Expecting), Dux unpacks modern
myths of motherhood and “runs at our assumptions with conviction and
glee”.
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11 Mar | Embassy Theatre
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Dux
will also join the creator of My
Stories, Your Emails, Ursula Martinez, and the NYC-based
author of Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post Punk from the
Middle East to the Lower East Side, Rayya Elias, to talk
about the unique joys and challenges of writing about your own life.
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11 Mar | Embassy Theatre
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The
murky interface of crime and politics provides the backdrop for
Dunedin-based Scottish writer Liam McIlvanney’s thrillers, which include All The
Colours of the Town and Where the Dead Men Go, in which
“each of the multifarious players…is memorable, no mean feat in such a
kaleidoscopic and closely-wrought tale” (Herald Scotland).
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12 Mar | Embassy Theatre
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Hear
one of the country’s most successful contemporary authors describe the
stories behind her stories in a conversation with Steven Gale.
Best
known for the internationally acclaimed novel The Vintner’s Luck,
Elizabeth Knox released two books in 2013 – the young adult novel Mortal
Fire and Wake, a story about extreme
events, ordinary people, heroic compassion and invisible monsters.
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8 Mar | The Embassy
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Find
out how JRR Tolkien’s legendary dragon was brought to life in an
enlightening session led by an Academy Award-winning Senior Visual
Effects Artist. Joe Letteri will reveal how they created Smaug and other
amazing creatures and environments for Peter Jackson’s epic fantasy
adventure The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
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8 - 12 Mar | Museum Art Hotel
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Gain
new skills and techniques for your own projects in these practical
sessions led by experts. Groups are limited, so book now to avoid
disappointment.
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