Top BWB authors
appear in the Auckland Writers’ Festival programme (released last night):
- Max
Harris gives the Michael King Memorial Lecture on Friday 19 May,
speaking to his remarkable new book The New Zealand
Project. Last year, BWB’s Helene Wong received a standing
ovation for her MK Lecture on Being Chinese
(Ockham New Zealand Awards longlist).
A New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, currently at Oxford’s All Souls College, Max will be speaking on ‘A New Politics of New Zealand’ – an urgent call for new political energy to meet the many challenges facing us in the world ahead.
- Vincent
O’Malley participates in a lively panel
with Marama Muru-Lanning, chaired by Te Radar, on Sunday 21 May. O’Malley’s bestselling Great War for
New Zealand (Ockham New Zealand Awards longlist) positions
the Waikato War as New Zealand’s defining conflict.
- Ben
Schrader talks about New Zealand’s
urban history on Saturday 20 May, drawing on The Big Smoke:
New Zealand Cities, 1840–1920. Schrader’s book has
been shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Awards, along with
BWB’s History of New
Zealand Women by Barbara Brookes.
- Judy
McGregor brings a key international
issue into a New Zealand context, talking about Human Rights in
New Zealand, the 2016 book she published with Sylvia Bell
and Margaret Wilson.
- Glenn
Colquhoun’s powerful writing about
working as a New Zealand doctor is the focus of his BWB Text Late Love.
He talks at three events in the festival, on Thursday 18, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 May.
- Scott
Hamilton will deliver a reading from
his BWB Text The Stolen
Island, which explores Tongan history and the Pacific
slave-trade, on Friday 19 May.
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