On North Korea: Inventing the Truth
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When: Sunday, 30 August 2015, 4pm
Venue: TVNZ Festival Club, the Arts Centre
Price: $20 (service fees apply), free with Shifting Points of View pass
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Suki Kim is the only writer to ever go undercover into North Korea to write a book from the inside. A glimpse inside the mysterious closed-off world of North Korea, a country where a military dictatorship exploits the myth of a Great Leader to its own citizens, who are “imprisoned in a gulag posing as a nation”, Kim’s extraordinary memoir of her time going undercover to teach English to the sons of North Korea’s ruling class, Without You, There is No Us, a New York Times bestseller, was written at great personal risk. Chaired by Paula Morris.
South Korean-born, American writer Suki Kim has been travelling to North Korea since 2002, witnessing both Kim Jong-Il’s 60th Birthday Celebration and his death at age 69 in 2011. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s and the New York Review of Books and she has been interviewed on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show and Christiane Amanpour Show on CNN. She gave a 2015 TED Talk to a standing ovation.
Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Rangatira won the fiction categories of the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards in 2012. She teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland.
On North Korea: Inventing the Truth
Suki Kim is the only writer to ever go undercover into North Korea to write a book from the inside. A glimpse inside the mysterious closed-off world of North Korea, a country where a military dictatorship exploits the myth of a Great Leader to its own citizens, who are “imprisoned in a gulag posing as a nation”, Kim’s extraordinary memoir of her time going undercover to teach English to the sons of North Korea’s ruling class, Without You, There is No Us, a New York Times bestseller, was written at great personal risk. Chaired by Paula Morris.
South Korean-born, American writer Suki Kim has been travelling to North Korea since 2002, witnessing both Kim Jong-Il’s 60th Birthday Celebration and his death at age 69 in 2011. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s and the New York Review of Books and she has been interviewed on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show and Christiane Amanpour Show on CNN. She gave a 2015 TED Talk to a standing ovation.
Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Rangatira won the fiction categories of the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards in 2012. She teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland.
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When: Sunday, 30 August 2015, 4pm
Venue:TVNZ Festival Club, the Arts Centre
Price:$20 (service fees apply), free with Shifting Points of View pass
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