Thursday, July 14, 2011

New Zealand Arts Festival attracts big-name author


Thomas L Friedman, foreign-affairs columnist for The New York Times and three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will be a keynote speaker at the Festival’s Writers and Readers Week, from 9-14 March.  Best-selling author Friedman is one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals. 
His book on globalisation, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, has sold more than four million copies.

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