Ranked #1
Known and Strange Things: Teju Cole (2017)
Known and Strange Things: Teju Cole (2017)
AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 2017Praised as a ‘sublime’ writer by The Guardian, the Nigerian-American writer, art historian... Read more
30 Jun 2017
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #2
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
Auckland Writers Festival 2015Clever, provocative and fun, the work of UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is the perfect c... Read more
22 Dec 2015
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36mins
Ranked #3
Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel: Station Eleven
Auckland Writers Festival 2015Canadian Emily St. John Mandel’s fourth novel Station Eleven was a finalist for the 2014 N... Read more
22 Dec 2015
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47mins
Ranked #4
New Zealand Listener Gala Night 2016 - True Stories Told Live: Altered States
New Zealand Listener Gala Night 2016 - True Stories Told Live: Altered States
Auckland Writers Festival 2016Our annual sell-out smorgasbord of stories – invariably funny, moving, and rousing – signa... Read more
16 Jun 2016
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1hr 2mins
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Ranked #5
Helen Garner: Justice Observed
Helen Garner: Justice Observed
Auckland Writers Festival 2015The quest for justice has seldom been more grippingly documented than in the book This Hou... Read more
22 Dec 2015
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46mins
Ranked #6
Kim Thuy: Beauty Of The Everyday
Kim Thuy: Beauty Of The Everyday
Auckland Writers Festival 2015Kim Thúy and her family fled Vietnam as boat people, arriving in Canada via a refugee camp... Read more
22 Dec 2015
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53mins
Ranked #7
2020 WINTER SERIES EP 2: Philippe Sands, Ian Wedde, Lisa Taddeo
2020 WINTER SERIES EP 2: Philippe Sands, Ian Wedde, Lisa Taddeo
The Auckland Writers Festival 13-week WINTER SERIES streamed live and free every Sunday morning from 3 May - 26 July 202... Read more
10 May 2020
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #8
2020 WINTER SERIES EP 1: Barbara Ewing, Alan Bollard, Bernadine Evaristo
2020 WINTER SERIES EP 1: Barbara Ewing, Alan Bollard, Bernadine Evaristo
The Auckland Writers Festival 13-week WINTER SERIES streamed live and free every Sunday morning from 3 May - 26 July 202... Read more
6 May 2020
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1hr
Ranked #9
Nigella Lawson: In Conversaton (2018)
Nigella Lawson: In Conversaton (2018)
English food writer and journalist Nigella Lawson started work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, going on to bec... Read more
6 Nov 2019
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1hr 1min
Ranked #10
An Evening with Lee Child (2018)
An Evening with Lee Child (2018)
Join master of suspense and bestselling crime writer Lee Child in conversation with broadcaster Jim Mora, to celebrate P... Read more
6 Nov 2019
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #11
An Evening with Arundhati Roy (2019)
An Evening with Arundhati Roy (2019)
A special event with internationally acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy.Arundhati Roy catapulted to fame with her deb... Read more
6 Nov 2019
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57mins
Ranked #12
An Evening with Sarah J. Maas (2019)
An Evening with Sarah J. Maas (2019)
Sarah J. Maas is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Throne of Glass series and A Court of Thorns and Roses ... Read more
6 Nov 2019
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53mins
Ranked #13
Of Exile And Home: Sisonke Msimang (2019)
Of Exile And Home: Sisonke Msimang (2019)
The daughter of a South African freedom fighter and an accountant, the writer Sisonke Msimang was born in exile, and has... Read more
7 Aug 2019
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47mins
Ranked #14
The Unwritten Rule (2019)
The Unwritten Rule (2019)
Despite an unwritten rule that authors shouldn’t install writers as characters in their work, in recent times a surfeit ... Read more
18 Jun 2019
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54mins
Ranked #15
To Life: Alexander Chee (2019)
To Life: Alexander Chee (2019)
Alexander Chee is variously described as “masterful” (Roxane Gay), “incendiary” (The New York Times) and “brilliant” (Th... Read more
18 Jun 2019
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45mins
Ranked #16
2019 Festival Gala Night - True Stories Told Live: At the Crossroads
2019 Festival Gala Night - True Stories Told Live: At the Crossroads
Eight writers, eight seven-minute true stories, no scripts, no props. Toiling for your entertainment and edification thi... Read more
11 Jun 2019
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #17
Doughnut Economics: Kate Raworth (2019)
Doughnut Economics: Kate Raworth (2019)
At a time when economic disparity continues to widen and the health of the planet is under severe threat, many question ... Read more
10 Jun 2019
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58mins
Ranked #18
Let's Go: Jeff Tweedy (2019)
Let's Go: Jeff Tweedy (2019)
The creative force behind the genre-defying Chicago alt-rock band Wilco, Jeff Tweedy has recently released his first mem... Read more
10 Jun 2019
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #19
History Or Gossip? C.K. Stead - The University of Auckland Free Public Lecture (2019)
History Or Gossip? C.K. Stead - The University of Auckland Free Public Lecture (2019)
More than ever these days, writers’ festivals and literary interviews encourage readers to interest themselves in the li... Read more
10 Jun 2019
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46mins
Ranked #20
America Is Not the Heart: Elaine Castillo (2019)
America Is Not the Heart: Elaine Castillo (2019)
The Filipino poet and labour organiser Carlos Bulosan, whose family immigrated to America in the Great Depression, entit... Read more
5 Jun 2019
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50mins
