Friday, October 21, 2011

Bookish highlights on Arts on Sunday 23 October 2011 - Radio NZ National

12:40 pm
New Zealand Post Book Awards: A new governance group has been set up to look at how to improve the country's main book awards...we talk to its chair, publisher Sam Elworthy (pic right - Gil Hanly).
2:30pm
Chapter & Verse: Our featured writers are short story writer Alice Tawhai whose new collection about people living on the fringe of society is called Dark Jelly; and novelist Mark Stephenson who brings a holocaust survivor to New Zealand in No Second Chance.
2:50pm 
Jenny Haworth, author of The Art of War, explains the artistic legacy left by Canterbury and war artist, Austen Deans, who died during the week.

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