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Indie takes top prize above frontrunners at Critics Choice
Sean Baker's Anora secured a surprise best picture win at at the 30th Annual Critics Choice Awards over frontrunners The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez.
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Critics Choice: NZ stars and Kiwi spinoff show score nominations
New Zealand-born actress Anna Sawai, Kiwi actor Antony Starr and the What We Do in the Shadows spinoff will face some tough competition.
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Book Critic: Catherine Robertson
Today Catherine talks to Susie about Did I Ever Tell You This, by Sam Neill. The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken and The Deck by NZ author Fiona Farrell. Audio
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Fiona Farrell
Audio 23 Apr 2023The wave of post-Covid literature continues with a new book by one of our leading writers, Fiona Farrell. Award-winning poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, Fiona's novel Deck starts out as a modern… Audio
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Book review: The Deck by Fiona Farrell
Lynn Freeman reviews The Deck by Fiona Farrell, published by Penguin Random House NZ. Audio
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Music Alive: 21x21
The World Premiere of 21 x 21 by soprano Jenny Wollerman and concert pianist Jian Liu artfully pairs Aotearoa’s female composers and poets in 21 newly written songs celebrating the unique cultural and… Audio
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WHITEHEAD: Because of the child
‘Because of the child’
by Gillian Whitehead, words Fiona Farrell.The World Premiere of 21 x 21 by soprano Jenny Wollerman and concert pianist Jian Liu artfully pairs Aotearoa’s female composers and… Audio
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See who is on the Queen's Birthday honours list
The Queen's Birthday Honours list for 2021 has been announced today, and it includes prominent artist Grahame Sydney, the former Dunedin mayor Dave Cull, and former long-serving MP Ruth Dyson.
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“I led a happy life, but I wrote sad poems” – Bill Manhire on his time as a Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow
Celebrating 50 years of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, five writer read their letters to New Zealand's most famous author. A highlight of Word Christchurch 2020. Audio
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In the year of Covid lockdowns, a Christmas Day Mass from Auckland’s Cathedral Of St Patrick & St Joseph
The 2020 Christmas Day church service from the Catholic Cathedral Of St Patrick & St Joseph in Auckland features Bishop Michael Gielen and the cathedral's choir and vocal ensemble. Audio
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Fiona Farrell on 30 years behind the pen
Audio 1 Nov 2020Author, poet and playwright Fiona Farrell has been publishing poetry in New Zealand since 1987 when her first collection Cutting Out arrived on New Zealand shelves. She's also known for her scree of… Audio
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Book critic Paula Morris
Our book critic today is award winning writer, Paula Morris - also an associate professor of English and Drama at Auckland University. Audio
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NZ Books Review - Best of 2017
Louise O'Brien reviews: The Beat of the Pendulum by Catherine Chidgey, published by VUP. A Killer Harvest by Paul Cleave, published by Upstart Press. Marlborough Man by Alan Carter, published by… Audio
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Book review - Decline and Fall on Savage Street
Louise O'Brien has been reading Decline and Fall on Savage Street by Fiona Farrell. Published by Penguin Random House. Audio
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New writing from Fiona Farrell
Author Fiona Farrell encapsulates our nation's contemporary history into her novel Decline and Fall on Savage Street - and within that novel, a street and a house. If that's not clever enough, the… Audio
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Literary superstars heading to Auckland
A star-studded international line-up, including Gloria Steinham and Marlon James, has been announced for the Auckland Writers Festival. Video
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Toby and Toby on... another shake in Christchurch, five years on.
OPINION: As another nerve-shredding quake hits Christchurch, Toby Manhire & Toby Morris look at how far the city has really come in the past five years.
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What makes a city, a city?
In 'The Villa at the Edge of The Empire', author Fiona Farrell explores the essence of cityhood and community with a particular focus on Christchurch. From its founding, to its post-quake devastation… Audio
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Andris Apse: shooting the south
New Zealand landscape photographer who draws from his work of the last thirty years, much previously unpublished, for the new book, Spirit of the South, a photographic tribute to the mainland. Audio
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Andris Apse: Spirit of the South
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Authors honoured for literary achievement
Three New Zealand writers are to receive awards for their outstanding contribution to New Zealand Literature.
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Fiona Farrell - Michael King Fellowship
Audio 5 Jul 2013Recipient of Michael King Fellowship talks about 'The Villa at the Edge of the Empire'. Audio
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Fiona Farrell: Writing the Quakes
Audio 16 Jun 2013Fiona Farrell has been awarded the $100,000 Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer's Fellowship to research and write twin books, one fiction and one non-fiction, inspired by her experiences of the… Audio
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Author wins grant to write about quakes
Author Fiona Farrell has been awarded a grant of $100,000 to write two books, one fiction and the other non-fiction, about the Christchurch earthquakes.
