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Photographs of Aotearoa's bold and beautiful to be digitised stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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We’re here to talk about her memoir, From the Centre: A Writer’s Life, which will be launched at the Auckland Writers Festival, where she is one of the guest speakers. Grace is one of New Zealand/Aotearoa’s most celebrated Māori fiction authors, who, over five decades, has won national and international awards for her work, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (considered the most prestigious literary prize after the Nobel). She was made a distinguished companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature in 2007. Grace is known for being self-effacing and it was her publisher, Harriet Allan, of Penguin Random House, who suggested she write a memoir. In an email, Allan describes the importance of Grace’s work: “While conveying a compelling story, Patricia has a powerful ability to enable the reader see the world through her character’s eyes, to open up diverse issues to make us see their human i ....
- They Called it Passchendaele, Lyn Macdonald, 1978. An English historian details the daily lives and struggles of the much maligned British Tommy on the Western Front. - Man Alone, John Mulgan, 1939. A novel based around a man named Johnson, a British soldier who was billeted with Kiwis on the Western Front. After the war he came out to New Zealand looking for a better life. Instead, he finds a “grim” country struggling to recover economically from the impact of the war. - We Will Not Cease, Archibald Baxter, 1939. If there is a book that dispels the myth that New Zealand was fighting for democracy or freedom, this is it. A conscientious objector, Baxter was tortured and sent to a mental hospital for opposing the war. ....
'A feminist and a fighter': The extraordinary life of Wellington writer Robin Hyde stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.