2020 WINTER SERIES Ep 12 Patrick Gale, Julia Ebner, Michele Leggott

2020 WINTER SERIES Ep 12 Patrick Gale, Julia Ebner, Michele Leggott

Author: Auckland Writers Festival July 19, 2020 Duration: 1:11:25
The Auckland Writers Festival 13-week WINTER SERIES streamed live and free every Sunday morning from 3 May - 26 July 2020. Episode 12 features: PATRICK GALE (England) Patrick Gale is the author of the award-winning BBC drama 'Man in an Orange Shirt' as well as 16 novels, including bestsellers 'Notes From An Exhibition', ‘Perfectly Good Man' and the Costa shortlisted 'A Place Called Winter'. His latest novel is 'Take Nothing With You', an elegiac story of coming of age and the transformative power of music. JULIA EBNER (Austria) Julia Ebner is a research fellow at the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue and a consultant on counter-terrorism to the UN. For her latest book ‘Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists', Julia went undercover for two years, investigating the online lives of extremists; hanging out in the alt-right networks. MICHELE LEGGOTT (Aotearoa New Zealand) NZ’s inaugural Poet Laureate, Michele Leggott, has been the recipient of a Prime Minister’s Literary Award and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ. She coordinates the NZ Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) and has recently published 'Mezzaluna: Selected Poems'. HOST: PAULA MORRIS (Aotearoa New Zealand) Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua) is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. The 2019 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow, she teaches creative writing at The University of Auckland, sits on the Māori Literature Trust and is the founder of the Academy of NZ Literature. This series provides an opportunity to champion New Zealand and international books that were to feature at our cancelled May Festival, we encourage you to support writers and NZ publishers and booksellers by purchasing featured books. Order via our Festival bookseller. #awfwinterseries

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