On Belonging
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When: Sunday, 30 August 2015, 10am
Venue: TVNZ Festival Club, the Arts Centre
Price: $20 (service fees apply), on sale 22 June
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Patrica Grace and Paula Morris in conversation
In her first novel in a decade, treasured writer Patricia Grace explores issues that permeate New Zealand history and society: racial intolerance, cross-cultural conflicts and the universal desire to belong. Spanning several decades and set against the backdrop of a changing New Zealand, Chappy is a story of enduring love. She discusses her work with Paula Morris, whose On Coming Home explores similar themes of nostalgia, memory and belonging as she reflects on returning to live in New Zealand after more than half a lifetime in foreign places.
Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers. She has published six novels and seven short story collections, as well as a number of books for children and non-fiction. She won the New Zealand Fiction Award for Potiki in 1987, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which also won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Her children’s story The Kuia and the Spider won Children’s Picture Book of the Year. Patricia was born in Wellington and lives in Plimmerton on ancestral land, in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay.
Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her novels, published by Penguin New Zealand, include: Queen of Beauty, Hibiscus Coast, Trendy But Casual and Rangatira. Rangatira won the fiction categories of the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards in 2012. Paula’s short stories have been widely published and she has written four novels for young adults.
Since 2003, Paula has taught creative writing at universities, including Tulane University in New Orleans and the University of Sheffield in England. She now teaches at the University of Auckland. (Photo: Mike Brooke)
On Belonging
Patrica Grace and Paula Morris in conversation
In her first novel in a decade, treasured writer Patricia Grace explores issues that permeate New Zealand history and society: racial intolerance, cross-cultural conflicts and the universal desire to belong. Spanning several decades and set against the backdrop of a changing New Zealand, Chappy is a story of enduring love. She discusses her work with Paula Morris, whose On Coming Home explores similar themes of nostalgia, memory and belonging as she reflects on returning to live in New Zealand after more than half a lifetime in foreign places.
Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated writers. She has published six novels and seven short story collections, as well as a number of books for children and non-fiction. She won the New Zealand Fiction Award for Potiki in 1987, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which also won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Her children’s story The Kuia and the Spider won Children’s Picture Book of the Year. Patricia was born in Wellington and lives in Plimmerton on ancestral land, in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay.
Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her novels, published by Penguin New Zealand, include: Queen of Beauty, Hibiscus Coast, Trendy But Casual and Rangatira. Rangatira won the fiction categories of the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards in 2012. Paula’s short stories have been widely published and she has written four novels for young adults.
Since 2003, Paula has taught creative writing at universities, including Tulane University in New Orleans and the University of Sheffield in England. She now teaches at the University of Auckland. (Photo: Mike Brooke)
Back to Events
When: Sunday, 30 August 2015, 10am
Venue:TVNZ Festival Club, the Arts Centre
Price:$20 (service fees apply), on sale 22 June
Buy tickets:Click here
