11th international festival of literature berlin - 7 to 17 September 2011 - NZ author on programme
The Asia Pacific region will be in the Focus of ilb 2011. The cultural wealth of the countries in the region, and the diversity of their histories and geographies are being reflected in their literatures. Twenty magnificent voices in the Focus this year include Ha Jin (winner of the National Book Awards in the year 2000 and two-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Awards), Tom Keneally, the author of the novel “Schindler’s Arc”, Mao biographer Jung Chang from China, and the Indian novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra.
We are pleased to also announce the participation of C.K. Stead from New Zealand, the winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008 Miguel Syjuco and the Korean national poet Kim Chi-Ha.
C.K.Stead will have one session as a poet, one as a fiction writer (reading from and talking about My Name was Judas), and one in which he will read a Katherine Mansfield story (‘The Doll’s House’) and talk about her work.
Photo - Sydney Morning Herald.
CK's not chairing the fantasy section then ;)
ReplyDelete'My Name was Judas' was very good. 'All Visitors Ashore' still possibly my favourite, though, with 'Sister Hollywood' and 'Mansfield' very close behind. Is he working on another novel now, does anybody know?
Mark I contacted C/K.STead and put your question to him. Here is his reply:
ReplyDeleteI am working, slowly, on a new novel – rewriting it for the fourth time and still not feeling it’s right, or confident that it ever will be, but persisting. I may finish it in London (where it’s mainly set) after Berlin. But then I have a Bogliasco Fellowship (that’s at the Liguria Study centre on the coast just outside Genoa) for October-November and have said while there I will put together (revise, make choices etc) a collection of poems written since my Collected Poems 1961-2006.
Cheers for that Bookman. Can't wait to hear the subject matter; look forward to reading.
ReplyDeleteFourth rewrite: damn. Comforting to see someone of even his experience still is plagued by crisis of confidence. Doesn't help any with the endeavour, but comforting.
London, Genoa. Glad I'm not CK - that'd be awful living like that ;)