Auckland Writers Artistic Curator, Bridget van der Zijpp

The Auckland Writers Festival gets underway in May with the festival promising a star-studded program. There will be Pulitzer, Booker and T.S. Eliot prize-winning authors. Auckland will also host literary sensations and local legends, A-I experts and "Book Tok sensations", as well as the usual pop-culture commentators, art and food critics.