Not a very lazy Sunday at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival. It’s day five, promising a non-stop schedule of events for our team in Auckland covering the festival for you. After mingling with the literati last night, they’re currently feasting on a full Auckland breakfast (a trim latte and a cereal bar?), fuelling themselves up for a crazy final day.
Listen to their Daily Festival Wrap – Saturday for a round-up of yesterday’s events. There’s so much good listening that it’s split into two parts, the first featuring Fiona Farrell. Listen on our Festival page, or right here.
Part one – Duration 6 mins 26 secs:
Part two – Duration 9 mins 35 secs:
So, back to today. What can we expect?
- After chasing elusive travel writer Thomas Kohnstamm for an interview (we hear he missed his flight to Auckland), Richard is looking forward to today’s Travel Writing Workshop, “especially after the ruckus over his latest book.” (As if you haven’t heard, Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? alleges some questionable practises at Lonely Planet). Event details
- An hour with Mo Hayder – Joyce says “Mo is often touted as being unsurpassed in her ability to find horror in everyday things, hopefully not my interview, and is promoting her latest novel Ritual.” Read our Mo Hayder profile and interview. Event details
- Richard is also looking forward to spending An hour with Anne Enright, considered the outsider by some to win the Man Booker Prize in 2007 with The Gathering. Read our profile of her. Event details
- Closing event Books left on buses, billed as confessions of a group of “national and international super-stars” who “vent about shameful books” they’d rather have left on a bus than mentioned “in public… at a literary festival… before a discerning audience.” Event details
Expect blog posts throughout the day as usual, and all the good stuff – including our exclusive interviews – is also on our festival page.
