Friday, July 18, 2014

FABULOUS INTERNATIONAL FICTION AT WORD CHRISTCHURCH


We hope you’ve all had a chance to peruse our programme, which is available at libraries, cafes and other outlets throughout Christchurch, or online at wordchristchurch.co.nz. We have been overwhelmed by the positive response: Christchurch is ready for us!
 
Here’s a taste of what’s to come: three wonderful international novelists who we are proud to be bringing to New Zealand.


NOVIOLET BULAWAYO

As a recent interviewer noted, to read NoViolet Bulawayo’s extraordinary and unforgettable novel, We Need New Names, ‘is to be plunked down in Paradise, a shantytown in Zimbabwe – running alongside 10-year-old Darling and her friends, stealing guavas, arms outstretched to meet the wind’.

The account of Darling’s move to a new life in America has affected readers worldwide, and won the author a place on the 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist. 

NoViolet Bulawayo appears in:
The Stars Are Out Tonight: Friday 29 August, 7.30pm
We Need New Names: Saturday 30 August, 2pm

DIANE SETTERFIELD

Diane Setterfield’s smash hit novel, The Thirteenth Tale, was published in 38 countries worldwide and has sold more than three million copies. Her second novel, Bellman & Black, layers themes of time, memory and loss. Diane is ‘a reader first, a writer second.’

The Thirteenth Tale has recently been made into a BBC tele-movie starring Vanessa Redgrave and Olivia Coleman. 
Diane Setterfield appears in:
The Stars Are Out Tonight: Friday 29 August, 7.30pm
The Storyteller: Saturday 30 August, 3.30pm
Beyond the Veil: Historical Ghost Stories: Sunday 31 August, 4pm

MEG WOLITZER

Fantastic New York author Meg Wolitzer’s ninth novel, The Interestings, which follows six friends from adolescence through to middle age, has been widely praised as ‘marvellously inventive’ and ‘enormously entertaining’, and compared to the work of Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides.

Her next novel is Belzhar, a Young Adult novel based on Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, and there are only a few places left on her fiction writing workshop, so get in quick!

 

Meg Wolitzer appears in:
The Stars Are Out Tonight: Friday 29 August, 7.30pm
Creating Worlds: Young Adult Readings: Saturday 30 August, 1pm
The Great NZ Crime Debate & Ngaio Marsh Award: Saturday 30 August, 8pm
Meg Wolitzer Fiction Writing Workshop: Sunday 31 August, 10am
The Interesting: Sunday 31 August, 2.30pm



SPREAD THE WORD - AUGUST 27-31 2014

 



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