Fifty years ago, Günter Grass’s novel Die Blechtrommel hit the headlines, signalling the arrival of a brilliant new talent who would go on to become a Nobel Prize winner (1999).
Translated into a number of languages, The Tin Drum has become one of the best-known works of contemporary German literature. Now, as part of world-wide celebrations of the book’s half-century, a new English translation by Breon Mitchell is to appear in 2009. Read more »
Divine
by Michelle Holman
MEDIA RELEASE
What do you when you find your husband is going to leave you . . . not for another woman, but to become a woman . . .
Hailed by the critics as hilarious, and completely original with wonderful New Zealand flavour, Michelle Holman’s debut novel Bonkers went straight to the bestseller charts. Read more »
Tongans gathered at the University of Auckland’s Fale Pasifika today to celebrate the launching of a new book by Professor ‘Ilaisa Futa Helu entitled Heilala Tangitangi ‘o Salote Pilolevu. The book studies 23 Tongan compositions – some by the late Queen Salote – and was published in honour of the King’s sister, Princess Pilolevu Tuita. The event also doubled as the official opening of the fledgling company that printed the book, ‘Atenisi Press. Read more »
My guess is there would be only a handful of working journalists in New Zealand who are aware that ‘development journalism’ is a genre in its own right. And until I read Media & Development, I wasn’t among them.
As David Robie points out in the book’s second chapter the genre peaked in the 1970s – ancient history for the majority of working journalists – and was a response by journalists in the Third World to what they saw as the negative portrayal of their home countries by international news agencies, such as Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters. Read more »
From: Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Five more funny, fast and furious scripts by MA (Script) writers from the IIML are delivered in rehearsed readings. Chaired by Ken Duncum.
Writers on Mondays is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters in partnership with the National Library of New Zealand.
These events take place at 1-2pm, at the National Library Auditorium.
They are open to the public and free of charge.
Bougainville Blue is a recently published novel set during the island’s civil war. Author Brian Darcey tells JEREMY ROSE he had finished the book before the publication of Lloyd’s Jones phenomenally successful Mister Pip. Darcey lived on Bougainville for fifteen years and believes the civil war can be traced back to a single word uttered by the then Australian Minister for Territories C.E.B Barnes. A Bougainvillian asked Barnes what locals could expect to gain from the opening of the Panguna copper mine, Barnes replied, “Nothing”.
Based on the reading habits of Amazon shoppers, John McCain has the presidential election in the bag. The giant on-line retailer is tracking the book buying habits of Americans across the country and so far the only States where books it classifies as blue (as in sympathetic to the Democratic Party – not Tory blue) are ahead of those it classifies as red, are: New York (56%), Vermont (59%), Massachusetts (58%), Maine (53%), and, although not a State, the District of Columbia (65%). Read more »
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RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 2008 | RRP: $59.99 | HARPERCOLLINSPUBLISHERS
This year, 11 November, marks 90 years since the end of the First World War, the greatest military conflict the world has ever seen. During the war, New Zealand soldiers captured images of war with forbidden cameras that were hidden in their kitbags. Most of these photographs have never been published. Glyn Harper, one of the country’s leading military historians, began a major research project to collect these images, to piece together an authentic pictorial narrative of New Zealand’s war efforts. Read more »
Etiquette for a Dinner Party by SUE ORR, Vintage (UK).
Everydays a Good Day by WILLIAM PIKE , Penguin
As If Running On Air Diaries & Journals of Jack Lovelock Craig Potton (NZ)
Novel About My Wife by EMILY PERKINS, Bloomsbury (UK)
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