Writer, director, actor Michael Hurst: A life in travel
23 Feb, 2021 02:58 AM
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Actor and director Michael Hurst. Photo / Supplied
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What are your favourite memories from childhood family holidays in NZ?
I came to Aotearoa as an 8-year-old in 1966, travelling the 18,500 kilometres from the grey and crowded grimness that was the North of England - think Coronation Street before colour television. We arrived in the green, open, slow-paced and still rather bucolic city of Ōtautahi, Christchurch. It was a bit of a shock.
But I loved it, and I loved the beaches. My favourite memories are not so much of going away as a family (though we did do that, mainly to Timaru and Fairlie), but of the hours and hours I would spend swimming and hurling myself down the sand dunes at North Brighton or Waikuku Beach. Paradise.
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Perhaps the most well-known Hong Kong poet, Mary Jean Chan is a London based writer and lecturer who has been named as one of the most influential BAME writers in Britain. Her poetry book,
Flèche, meaning “arrow” in French, received high praise after it was published, winning the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry.
The book’s name refers to an offensive technique used in fencing, Chan’s choice of sport during her young adult years. The title symbolises the difficult feelings she feels while navigating the world, describing it as “reconciling one’s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one’s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world”.
Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us
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Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us
With his new novel, the Nobel Prize-winner reaffirms himself as our most profound observer of human fragility in the technological era.
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On a bright, cool Saturday in late October 1983, the growing prospect of thermonuclear war between the world’s two superpowers drew a quarter million people out into the streets of central London. Among them was a young writer named Kazuo Ishiguro, who’d recently published his first novel. Ishiguro’s mother had narrowly survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, so his presence at the march that day felt like a matter of personal duty. Along with a gro
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Maksud passed away at Square Hospital in the capital around 7:15pm on Tuesday, his son Syed Nafis Maksud said.
Nafis said his father was taken to the hospital in the afternoon after he had complained of sudden breathing problems.
Shariful Islam Hasan, programme head of migration at BRAC who is close to Maksud’s family, said the body was kept at the hospital’s mortuary as the family were yet to decide about the burial.
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