Auckland Writers Festival
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Auckland Writers Festival
Podcast by Auckland Writers Festival
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THE MORALITY OF AI: TOBY WALSH (2023)
There are approximately three million robots working in factories around the world, and another 30 million in people’s homes. Soon robots will outnumb...
WORDS LOST AND FOUND: PIP WILLIAMS (2023)
Pip Williams’ best-selling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words tells the story of motherless Esme who spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden...
THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA: SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA (2023)
The judges for the winning 2022 Booker Prize praised Shehan Karunatilaka’s novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida for the ‘ambition of its scope, and...
THE BOOK OF ROADS AND KINGDOMS: RICHARD FIDLER (2023)
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms brings to life a dazzling culture of science, literature, philosophy and adventure arising out of the flourishing metro...
SOMETHING THAT MAY SHOCK AND DISCREDIT YOU: DANIEL LAVERY (2023)
Delightfully inventive and witty, Daniel Lavery (as Mallory Ortberg) was the cofounder of The Toast, the pop-culture platform with literary depth that...
INDELIBLE CITY: LOUISA LIM (2023)
In the opening paragraphs of Stella Prize shortlisted Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, author Louisa Lim is torn between journ...
CAN AI WRITE A BOOK? SARAH DANIELL, CATHERINE CHIDGEY, TOBY WALSH, TE TAKA KEEGAN (2023)
With open source AI chatbots capable of generating text that appears increasingly human, will they eventually replace writers altogether? Some claim t...
TWO-SPIRIT: JOSHUA WHITEHEAD, ELLEN VAN NEERVEN, KŌTUKU TITIHUIA NUTTALL
Two-Spirit is a pan-Indigenous expression (FNMI – First Nations, Metis and Inuit) from Turtle Island (North America) reflecting complex understandings...
It's Not About Hope: CHELSEA WATEGO, EMMA ESPINER
In Another Day in the Colony, Mununjali and South Sea Islander health activist Chelsea Watego has a chapter called F**k Hope. She urges her mob to be...
WE CAN’T NOT MENTION IT… : STEPHANIE JOHNSON, FIONA FARRELL (2023)
How do fiction writers deal with Covid? Full-on or sideways? Stephanie Johnson embraces it with gusto in her new satirical novel Kind, a thriller set...
LIVE LIFE: DAVE LETELE, WILLY DE WIT (2023)
In his book No Excuses Dave ‘the Brown Buttabean’ Letele shares how he overcame poverty, depression and crime to become an award-winning community lea...
SONNETS FOR ALBERT: ANTHONY JOSEPH (2023)
When I hear my father dead
I flew 10 hours into the sun
next morning I put black on
The 2023 TS Eliot Prize awa...
EVENT 09 TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW: GABRIELLE ZEVIN (2023)
‘Whatever its subject, when a novel is powerful enough, it transports us readers deep into worlds not our own. That’s true of Moby Dick, and it’s cert...
DOUBLE PULITZER PRIZE WINNER: COLSON WHITEHEAD (2023)
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Colson Whitehead is the only writer to win for consecutive books. His best-selling novels 'The Unde...
WHEN A POWWOW IS NOT A POWWOW
The word ‘Powwow’ is often used to refer to a quick impromptu meeting, but in Northern Plains Indigenous cultures, there is nothing quick or casual ab...
BUT WHAT CAN WE DO? (2023)
The impacts of climate change are upon us, we know that, and the recent brutal weather events have shown we can’t sit idly by. It’s time for fresh thi...
TUATAHI (2023)
Three young fluent te reo speakers producing inspirational work across a variety of genres, talk about the bravery and passion it took to take the unm...
BIRNAM WOOD: ELEANOR CATTON (2023)
Aotearoa’s most anticipated book release of 2023 has been Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood, coming ten years after she won the Booker Prize for The Lumina...
WHAT THE MAGPIE SAYS: CATHERINE CHIDGEY (2023)
Is The Axeman’s Carnival the great Kiwi Gothic classic? Plenty of reviewers think so. Catherine Chidgey surprised everybody when she revealed her next...
FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS: DR MONTY SOUTAR (2023)
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted novel, Kāwai, by Dr Monty Soutar ONZM (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Awa, Ngā Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Kahungunu) has...
HONOURED WRITER TRUE STORY: MY MANSFIELD
2023 marks the centenary year of Katherine Mansfield’s too-soon demise from pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 34. She is still cherished today in N...
THE BOOKER RIDE: ELEANOR CATTON, BERNARDINE EVARISTO, SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA (2023)
It’s the Oscars of the writing world – winning the Booker Prize supercharges a writer’s career, immediately lifts sales, multiplies overseas deals and...
AFTER DARK (2022)
In night, suspense, lawlessness, hazard, sensuousness and awe are evoked simply by stepping outside,” says Annette Lees, author of 2022 Ockham NZ Book...
THE WORLD BEYOND: LONG, MORGAN, PHILLIPS (2022)
Chris Long, author of 'The Boy From Gorge River', grew up in a remote off-grid corner of the South Island, two days walk from the nearest town; writer...
HONOURED WRITER: TESSA DUDER (2022)
Author Tessa Duder began her adult life as a representative swimmer, winning a silver medal at the 1958 Cardiff Empire Games in the 110 yards butterfl...
GRAND: NOELLE MCCARTHY (2022)
Shaped by the forces of 1970s Ireland and by a mother raging against her hemmed-in life, broadcaster, writer and podcaster Noelle McCarthy escaped Ire...
TIMELESS TALES: HEREAKA & JONES (2022)
The traditions of fable and myth – Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the tales of Aesop and Grimm, Homer’s Iliad and the pūrākau of Polynesia, to name a few – hav...
TOI TU - TOI ORA: NIGEL BORELL (2022)
Breathtaking in scope, ambition and artistry, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki’s’ 2020-2021 survey exhibition of Māori contemporary art from 1950s to...
THE VISIONARIES – OPPORTUNITY OR THREAT: CHARTERS & RURU (2022)
In 2010, the National Government signed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, joining more than 140 other countries; in 2019 the Lab...
NOBEL ENCHANTMENTS: ABDULRAZAK GURNAH (2022)
Of 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer Abdulrazak Gurnah’s book 'By the Sea', The Times said, “Rarely in a lifetime can you open a book and find that read...
WORLDS AT WAR: DAVID KILCULLEN (2022)
Russia’s waging of war in Ukraine brings back to Europe scenes of aggression and devastation not seen
there for decades. It’s one of the many in...
INTERGENERATIONAL PLAY: IRELAND, KENNEDY, TIBBLE (2022)
Three generations of talented poets come together to share work from their new collections, and to talk with each other about the literary influences,...
THE BADDEST ART FRIEND: CHAPMAN, REILLY, MCINNES (2022)
There’s no such thing as a new idea, but what happens when your writing draws on the people in your life – and what happens when they don’t want to be...
HOW WE LOVE: CLEMENTINE FORD (2022)
Clementine Ford is one of Australia’s most fearless feminists, and possibly one of its most provocative. The author of the best-selling 'Fight Like A...
HARBOURING: JENNY PATTRICK (2022)
From the pen of historical fiction doyenne Jenny Pattrick, one of this country’s bestselling novelists with books including 'The Denniston Rose' and '...
OPERATION TROJAN HORSE: STEPHEN DAVIS (2022)
“A gripping study of the collateral damage caused by government decision making in war... an expertly researched study of government duplicity,” said...
THE DISRUPTORS NGĀ IKA HAEHAE KUPENGA: FORBES, HUSBAND, KAMO, MANIAPOTO (2022)
Meet the disruptors: Māori journalists helping to lead and shape more nuanced conversation on the issues of the day through a Māori lens. Exploring qu...
GLOBAL CHALLENGES, GLOBAL AGREEMENT: A.C. GRAYLING (2022)
In A.C. Grayling’s view, three of the biggest challenges facing the world today are climate change, the rate of development in high-impact technologie...
HOW TO BE A BAD MUSLIM: MOHAMED HASSAN (2022)
Mohamed Hassan’s life has taken him from Cairo to New Zealand and on to Istanbul and London, covering the Middle East, Turkey and Asia Pacific as a jo...