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SATURDAY 19 MAY
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A MAORI WORD A DAY: H E- M I K E L L Y
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 9.00-9.30AM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
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COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES: KAREN JOY FOWLER
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 10.00-11.00AM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler
is a maverick, with novels and short stories spanning science fiction, fantasy and literary fiction, including the Man Booker Prize finalist We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, The New York Times bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club, and the PEN/Faulkner fiction finalist Sister Noon. She is the co-founder of the James Tiptree Jr. Award – given to works which increase understanding of gender – and is the president of the Clarion Foundation which supports the teaching of sci-fi and fantasy writing. She speaks with Kate DeGoldi.SupportedbyPlatinumPatronsPip
Years of Scottish History By Those Who saw It Happen as an unquali ed triumph. Rosemary Goring’s book is composed of eye-witness accounts from Tacitus, Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell, Adam Smith, David Livingstone, and The Big Yin, AKA Billy Connolly, but also from crofters, criminals, servants, housewives and poets. Goring is the literary editor of The Herald in Glasgow, and the author of two works of historical ction: After Flodden (the 1513 battle in which the English annihilated the Scots) and its sequel Dacre’s War. Join her in an hour’s examination of her country with Jim Mora.
Supported by Heartland Bank.
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FOREIGN WITNESS
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 10.00-11.00AM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
The life of the foreign correspondent is a fascinating one – forever on the move, often at the coalface of the news cycle, and witnessing the unfolding of history. Freelancer and South East Asian specialistMadeleineO’Dea andformer China correspondent Francis Wade, talk with journalist Mike McRoberts.
Start your Festival Day, Friday to
Sunday, with a fun half-hour Te
Reo lesson, led by Ma-ori-teacher, translatorandwriterHemiKelly Muir&KitToogood. whose book A Ma- ori Word A Day is
a simple, fun and practical Ma-ori dictionary for all New Zealanders. Polish up those vowel sounds. Ka pai.
All welcome; entry by koha, no ticket required.
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SCOTLAND: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
SATURDAY MAY 19 – 10.00-11.00AM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Alexander McCall Smith describes
Scotland: The Autobiography, 2000
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