Podcast appearances and mentions of dame fiona kidman

Claire Mabey talks about Megan Dunn's The Mermaid Chronicles, The Nevermoor books and previews a new documentary about Dame Fiona Kidman.

This week on The Joys of Binge Reading, Strange Sally Diamond, the latest, dark and twisted thriller from award-winning Irish novelist, Liz Nugent. Hi there. I'm your host, Jenny Wheeler, and on Binge Reading today, Liz talks about her gripping new psychological bestseller, always laced with black humor, and explains how Sally is pretty like herself; “Liz, without a filter.” She tells us what she's learned from TV shows like Breaking Bad and how she came to set part of her story in New Zealand. We've got our usual book give away, Historic Fiction with Strong Female Leads this week, including one of my books. Sadie's Vow book one in my latest Home At Last series. Sadie makes a death bed promise to her mother to protect her younger sister, but when an infatuated Phoebe debunks with a mob boss, Sadie has her work cut out. GET FREE HISTORICALS https://books.bookfunnel.com/strongfemaleleadsmay2023/tugfi9kl88 And don't forget, if you enjoy this show, leave us a review wherever you listen to the podcast, so others will find us too. It really does help spread the word. Links mentioned in the show Unravelling Oliver: https://www.liznugent.com/unravelling-oliver The Girl On A Train: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train Gone Girl: https://www.amazon.com/Gone-Girl-Gillian-Flynn/dp/0307588378 Craig Sisterson: https://thespinoff.co.nz/authors/craig-sisterson Ngaio Marsh Awards: https://newzealandbooks.com/product-category/awards/ngaio-marsh-awards/ Otago University Centre for Celtic Studies: https://www.otago.ac.nz/ciss/index.html Professor Liam Mcilvanney: https://www.otago.ac.nz/ciss/people/otago716926.html Liam.mcilvanney@otago.ac.nz Our Little Cruelties: https://www.liznugent.com/little-cruelties Skin Deep: https://www.liznugent.com/skin-deep Lying In Wait: https://www.liznugent.com/lying-in-wait Sarah Hilary, Black Thorn; https://sarahhilary.com/ Vanda Simon: https://www.vandasymon.com/ Paul Cleave: https://www.paulcleave.com/ Fiona Sussman: https://www.fionasussman.co.nz/ Dame Fiona Kidman: https://fionakidman.com/ The Secret History by Donna Tartt: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29044.The_Secret_History The Book of Evidence by John Banville (Booker Prize winner): https://www.amazon.com/Book-Evidence-John-Banville/dp/0375725237 Light A Penny Candle - Maeve Binchy: https://www.amazon.com/Light-Penny-Candle-Famous-Firsts/dp/045121143X Where to find Liz online Website: https://www.liznugent.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liz.nugent.399 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liznugentwriter/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lizzienugent But now, here's the show. Introducing thriller writer Liz Nugent Award winning best selling thriller author Liz Nugent Hello there, Liz and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. Jenny Wheeler: But now here's Liz. Hello there, Liz, and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. Liz Nugent: Hi Jenny. Thank you very much. It's nice to be virtually in New Zealand. I wish I was there for real. Jenny Wheeler: I think that you have visited here, haven't you, but we'll talk about that a bit a little bit later. You've had a brilliant career as a novelist. You're onto book five, we're going to be talking about today, but right from the very start, you've had bestsellers and lots of very positive attention. You've won numerous Irish book awards We should mention if people don't realize it from your accent that you are talking from Ireland. How did you manage to hit the ground running like that? Liz Nugent: I don't know. I think, I think my first novel Unraveling Oliver, it came. It came at it. It's a domestic noir story in the same way that Girl On A Train and Gone Girl were those sort of domestic stories. They weren't like police detective thrillers, they're about things that happen within families or within bro...

Today Claire talks to Jesse about Fludd by Hilary Mantel, the new RNZ Cookbook and Dame Fiona Kidman's book of essays/memoir called So Far, for Now.

Dame Fiona Kidman OBE (on the Sargeson Prize) Interview by Hannah Williams and Sunaina Born on Radio One 91FM Dunedin

Award-winning New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story author Fiona Kidman talks about the era in which her novel, This Mortal Boy, was set.

Dame Fiona Kidman's award winning novel This Mortal Boy, about the life and death of the real life ‘jukebox killer' 18 year old Albert (Paddy) Black, has been described as remarkable and compelling. It is a masterpiece from one of New Zealand's finest writers. In conversation with broadcaster and writer Karyn Hay, she discusses the story of Albert Black and his place in New Zealand's social history. A prolific writer and national treasure, Kidman has often written about outsiders trying to navigate a conformist society. This Mortal Boy mines this same rich vein, delving into Black's short life and his 1955 murder conviction and execution which sat at the centre of a widespread moral panic. Ultimately, his execution led to a tide of disgust which resulted in the abolition of the death penalty for murder in New Zealand. Dame Fiona Kidman writes novels, short stories, poetry and memoir. She has published more than 30 books, of which several are in translation in other countries. Her novel, All Day at the Movies, won the New Zealand Heritage Prize for Fiction in 2016, and was long listed for the International Dublin Literary Prize. This Mortal Boy won the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the NZ Booklovers Award, the NZSA Heritage Book Award for Fiction and the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. Her home is in Wellington. Karyn Hay is an award-winning novelist: her debut novel Emerald Budgies won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award in 2001. She is a Frank Sargeson Fellow and is currently a literary advisor to the Frank Sargeson Trust. Her last novel The March of the Foxgloves, was a No.1 bestseller on the New Zealand Fiction list.

Covid complacency is setting in everywhere except Auckland; Dame Fiona Kidman upset over National Library's book cull.

There are concerns about the National Library culling 600,000 international books from its collection. Author and former librarian Dame Fiona Kidman talks to The Panel about what she calls, cultural vandalism.

Dame Fiona Kidman's award winning novel This Mortal Boy, about the life and death of the real life ‘jukebox killer' 18 year old Albert (Paddy) Black, has been described as remarkable and compelling. It is a masterpiece from one of New Zealand's finest writers. In conversation with broadcaster and writer Karyn Hay, she discusses the story of Albert Black and his place in New Zealand's social history.  A prolific writer and national treasure, Kidman has often written about outsiders trying to navigate a conformist society. This Mortal Boy mines this same rich vein, delving into Black's short life and his 1955 murder conviction and execution which sat at the centre of a widespread moral panic. Ultimately, his execution led to a tide of disgust which resulted in the abolition of the death penalty for murder in New Zealand. Dame Fiona Kidman writes novels, short stories, poetry and memoir. She has published more than 30 books, of which several are in translation in other countries. Her novel, All Day at the Movies, won the New Zealand Heritage Prize for Fiction in 2016,  and was long listed for the International Dublin Literary Prize. This Mortal Boy won the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the NZ Booklovers Award, the NZSA Heritage Book Award for Fiction and the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. Her home is in Wellington. Karyn Hay is an award-winning novelist: her debut novel Emerald Budgies won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award in 2001. She is a Frank Sargeson Fellow and is currently a literary advisor to the Frank Sargeson Trust. Her last novel The March of the Foxgloves, was a No.1 bestseller on the New Zealand Fiction list.

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.Book newsOckham resultsCongratulations to all the winning and shortlisted authors, and especially to Becky Manwatu for her sweep of Best First Fiction and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction.Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online Series Watch live via the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website.WORD Christchurch now running October 30 - 1 NovemberThey need your help to stage this year's festival! WORD is a charitable trust, and it's now easier than ever to donate. More information here. VERB Wellington confirmed for 6-8 November, with Litcrawl on 7 NovemberNZ Bookstores experiencing boom in Level 2 - Guardian article The price of literature: writers take on Government over fair pay by Kelly Dennett"This proposition that writers just do their work for love is a scurrilous attack on the integrity of all authors," says Dame Fiona Kidman.Book reviews KD: A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen (Fitzcarraldo Editions)LK: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Penguin)JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman Books)Not booksKD: Los Angeles is Burning by Anna Rankin on Newsroom LK: The Good Place on Netflix and The Wondrous Adventures of Mittens JT: Nat’s What I Reckon on YouTube (with a mention of

To celebrate her 80th birthday, Dame Fiona Kidman has brought together 13 of her short stories to explore what it means to love.

Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events

The Going West Writers Festival and Auckland Libraries bring you highlights from the 2018 Going West Writers Festival. https://soundcloud.com/auckland-libraries/sets/going-west-writers-festival-1 In this track we hear Dame Fiona Kidman in conversation with Karyn Hay on the session theme: The Life and Death of an Outsider which relates to Kidman’s award winning novel This Mortal Boy. Prolific writer and national treasure Dame Fiona Kidman has often written about outsiders trying to navigate conformist society. This Mortal Boy mines this same rich vein. It delves into the short life of Albert Black, known as the ‘Jukebox Killer’. Black’s 1955 murder conviction and execution sat at the centre of a widespread moral panic. Fiona discusses the story’s moment in New Zealand social history with broadcaster and novelist Karyn Hay. To hear more published tracks from previous years search Going West on this Auckland Libraries podcast channel. Interested in the history of the festival? Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections houses the full sound and festival archive since its steam train journey beginnings in 1996. Search Kura Heritage Collections or visit Heritage Collections at the Central City Library or Research West in Henderson for access to the collection. Going West Writers Festival 2019 opens on the 6th of September till Sunday the 13th – more information available at the Going West website https://www.goingwestfest.co.nz/ Photo credit: Dame Fiona Kidman, 2018, photographer Liz March, Going West Festival Collection, Auckland Libraries

In a career that spans more than 30 books, time as a librarian, radio producer and screenwriter, Wellington writer Dame Fiona Kidman also claimed New Zealand's most prestigious literary prize in 2019. At the 51st Ockham Book Awards. This Mortal Boy was awarded the Acorn Foundation's Prize for Fiction. In this Public History Talk, Dame Fiona talks about her latest work which explores one of New Zealand's last executions, and the events that followed. These monthly Public History Talks are a collaboration between the National Library of New Zealand https://natlib.govt.nz/ and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage https://mch.govt.nz/.  Recorded live at the National Library of New Zealand, 7 August 2019. 

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.As always, you can email us at papercutspod@gmail.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @papercutspodThanks to The Spinoff and the Mātātuhi Foundation for their support.Papercuts: An Auckland Writers Festival Report. A VERY SPECIAL podcast, where we say the words VERY SPECIAL many times. Papercuts report from the ground at the Auckland Writers Festival 2019, where a record breaking 82,000 seats were filled over seven days of literary goodness.Jenna, Louisa & Kiran interview Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize winner Dame Fiona Kidman, Pulitzer Prize winning Andrew Sean Greer and the incredible and probably soon-to-be prize winning Elaine Castillo.We also break down the Ockham Book Awards, the Festival Gala, Douglas Coupland, Literally Lorne, Kamila Shamsie, Chessie Henry, Jill Abramson, Alexander Chee, Shayne Carter, Carla Guelfenbein, we attend two book launches and drink a lot of wine. Thank you to Anne & the Auckland Writers Festival team for having us, 2019 Voyager Media Awards Website of the Year - The Spinoff and of course, The Mātātuhi Foundation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I have been very fortunate to record an interview with New Zealand author, Dame Fiona Kidman, ahead of her two appearances at Featherston Booktown 2019. In this chat, Dame Fiona talks about her progression as a writer, her love of the short story form, the state of gender equality, and what you can expect if … More Interview with New Zealand author, Dame Fiona Kidman

The death penalty has started wars, won elections, outraged the population and ruined lives. Join William Ray for this live podcast recording at the Bread and Circus Festival in Christchurch with guests Dame Fiona Kidman, Vincent O'Malley and Mark Derby as they unpick the history of executions in New Zealand.

Dame Fiona Kidman is a New Zealand writer and writing teacher who has been widely published and recognised at home and abroad. Her latest book, This Mortal Boy was released this year. As a young and newly successful author in the 1970's, Fiona found herself at the heart of the sometimes caustic and cavalier operations of PEN New Zealand. Listen to her December 1999 interview with Alison Gray here.

As a writer and advocate Dame Fiona Kidman has contributed an astonishing amount to NZ literature. Born in Hawera in 1940, she has published more than 30 works – fiction, non-fiction, short stories, poetry, plays – and has been a script writer, radio producer, journalist and librarian. She has won several national and international awards, holds both an Order of the British Empire and a NZ Order of Merit for services to literature, and is the recipient of a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. From her first novel, A Breed of Women (1979) through to two books in 2016 – the novel All Day at the Movies and the poetry collection This Change in the Light – her ability to delve deeply into character and subject so illuminating the ordinary and the extraordinary, is evident. Kidman has also dedicated herself to the literary community: she has been a national president of PEN (NZ) and of the NZ Book Council, and a founding trustee of the Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Known and respected for her warmth, humour and insight, Dame Fiona Kidman is our 2017 Auckland Writers Festival Honoured New Zealand Writer. Chaired by Paula Morris. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 2017