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7 hours ago · Press Release: Kete Books. Kete Books, the website dedicated to helping readers discover New Zealand books and authors, has been rebuilt and is now live, connecting New Zealanders to their local ...
5 days ago · Gabrielle Zevin Loves Edith Wharton, but Not ‘Ethan Frome’. “It doesn’t make me esteem Wharton less. If anything, I take comfort in it, as a novelist.”. Her own smash book “Tomorrow ...
7 hours ago · We have a brand new $30,000 award for mid-career children's writer in Aotearoa New Zealand – generously backed by our nation's very own children's literary legend, Dame Lynley Dodd DNZM. This award is made possible thanks to the huge act of generosity from Aotearoa New Zealand’s literary great, Dame Lynley Dodd DNZM, who has committed to ...
5 days ago · The 2025 programme offers 16 residencies to emerging and established writers for periods of two to four weeks. Awarded residencies will include up to four specifically for Māori or Pasifika...
7 hours ago · Early life and education Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, the only child of Reginald Francis Cleese (1893–1972), an insurance salesman, and his wife Muriel Evelyn (née Cross, 1899–2000), the daughter of an auctioneer. His family's surname was originally Cheese, but his father had thought it was embarrassing and used the name Cleese when he enlisted in the Army ...
5 days ago · Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement. Nominations are now open for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement. Do you know of a New Zealand writer who has made a notable contribution to New Zealand literature in the genres of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry?
2 days ago · Many of her works, which are set in New England and Europe as well as New York City, have been successfully adapted for stage and film. From the 1940s until the 1970s, her reputation suffered from a persistent comparison of her work with that of Henry James and from the misperception that she was a writer only of high society—and therefore “narrow” interests.
