FROM HUTS TO HEAVEN
Laurence Fearnley, Carl Nixon, Tim Wilson
Once New Zealand fiction was, perhaps unfairly, regarded as a fairly grim business, dominated by solitary males, unforgiving landscapes and dysfunctional families. Now our novels are richly diverse. Authors write from and about other countries, they mine this country’s history and they respond in exciting, original ways to contemporary events. The powerful and very different recent novels of Carl Nixon, Laurence Fearnley and Tim Wilson typify that variety, from men alone, on the road and high in the mountains, in Settlers’ Creek and The Hut Builder, to a New Zealand woman caught up in The Rapture in America in Their Faces Were Shining.
Laurence Fearnley has published eight novels. Edwin and Matilda was runner-up in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2008. The Hut Builder won the fiction category of the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.
Carl Nixon is a playwright, short story writer and novelist. He has received numerous awards for his short fiction. Both his first novel, Rocking Horse Road, and his second, Settlers’ Creek, were longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Tim Wilson was Television New Zealand’s US correspondent for six years. Their Faces Were Shining was shortlisted for the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards. His short story collection, The Desolation Angel, was published in 2011.
Chair: Jolisa Gracewood is a writer, editor, blogger and prize-winning reviewer who writes regularly for the Listener.
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Date/Time
2 Sep 2012 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Cost:$16/14
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