Podcasts about new zealand literature

With ruthless wit and compelling insights gained as a writer and writing teacher, Paula Morris argues that the skilled use of language is a more powerful ally for writers than ideas or feelings. She draws on persuasive examples of technique grounded in human experience. Paula (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua) is an acclaimed novelist, memoirist, short story writer and creative writing teacher. An insightful and incisive interviewer, she has been the face of the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival and its COVID-19-mandated shift online. She is a writer of powerful opinion pieces, and the author of the story collection Forbidden Cities (2008); the essay On Coming Home (2015); and seven novels, including Rangatira (2011), fiction winner at both the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards. Her most recent book is an essay and story collection, False River (2017). Paula teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland and is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature.

Jane Mander is best known for her 1920 novel The Story of a New Zealand River, widely thought to be the underlying narrative for Jane Campion's film The Piano. The daughter of an MP, sawmiller and newspaper owner, she became the editor of the Dargaville Times before working as a journalist in Sydney in 1910 then travelling to New York to study at Columbia. Mander was a suffragette and a free thinker who wrote against New Zealand's prevailing puritanism and repressive culture. Literary historian and critic Lydia Wevers is presenting a talk on Jane Mander at Featherston Booktown on 8 May.

Jane Mander is best known for her 1920 novel The Story of a New Zealand River, widely thought to be the underlying narrative for Jane Campion's film The Piano. The daughter of an MP, sawmiller and newspaper owner, she became the editor of the Dargaville Times before working as a journalist in Sydney in 1910 then travelling to New York to study at Columbia. Mander was a suffragette and a free thinker who wrote against New Zealand's prevailing puritanism and repressive culture. Literary historian and critic Lydia Wevers is presenting a talk on Jane Mander at Featherston Booktown on 8 May.

Episode Notes Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi discuss their book, From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literature, 1840-1940, which they co-authored with Clare Bradford. Support Society for the History of Children and Youth Podcast by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/shcy Find out more at https://shcy.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

"Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle" - many New Zealanders know Denis Glover as the author of the iconic poem "The Magpies". The late poet, printer and publisher also left behind a tarnished personal legacy, of womanising, drinking and a chaotic private life. Sarah Shieff is hoping to widen our understanding of Glover beyond his flaws to include his wit, gift for friendship, and his bravery. She's spent over 7 years reviewing thousands of his letters and has selected a few hundred to tell his story in a soon to be released collection Letters of Denis Glover. Sarah Shieff is an Associate Professor at the University of Waikato and for a decade edited the Journal of New Zealand Literature. Her previous books including Talking Music: Conversations with New Zealand musicians and Letters of Frank Sargeson.

Multi award-winning New Zealand author Catherine Chidgey is just about to release a new book, Remote Sympathy. It's her sixth book - earlier novels In a Fishbone Church, Golden Deeds, and The Wish Child, have all won awards, both here in New Zealand and internationally. Like bestseller The Wish Child, Remote Sympathy is set in Nazi Germany. It tells the story of Frau Greta Hahn, the wife of SS Sturmbannfuhrer Dietrich Hahn, who has taken up a powerful position at the Buchenwald work camp - as its administrator. Catherine Chidgey has a degree in German and spent three years living in Berlin, but is now based in Ngaruawahia, and teaches writing at Waikato University.

With ruthless wit and compelling insights gained as a writer and writing teacher, Paula Morris argues that the skilled use of language is a more powerful ally for writers than ideas or feelings. She draws on persuasive examples of technique grounded in human experience.  Paula (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua) is an acclaimed novelist, memoirist, short story writer and creative writing teacher. An insightful and incisive interviewer, she has been the face of the 2020 Auckland Writers Festival and its COVID-19-mandated shift online. She is a writer of powerful opinion pieces, and the author of the story collection Forbidden Cities (2008); the essay On Coming Home (2015); and seven novels, including Rangatira (2011), fiction winner at both the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards. Her most recent book is an essay and story collection, False River (2017). Paula teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland and is the founder of the http://www.anzliterature.com (Academy of New Zealand Literature).

Fiction writer, critic, essayist, art curator and former NZ Poet Laureate, Ian Wedde has a new book out. The Reed Warbler is his eighth novel and is being billed as a masterpiece. A work of fiction, it's reminiscent of a family history, and calls into question the reliability of our memories, and the stories we tell about each other.

“A race can mean more than a race,” Roger Robinson writes in his new book, When Running Made History. “It can show that human beings are still capable of attaining pure beauty through arduous endeavor.” Written as a personal history, elite runner and literary scholar Roger Robinson expresses the vast and often untold history of running as seen through his own eyes. Whether it was the Boston Marathon in 2014, the 1948 Olympic games in London, or the 1988 World Cross-Country Championships, Roger Robinson was there. Using descriptive literary prose, Robinson captures running’s most historic moments while considering their significance and impact on the world. Robinson considers how running has changed, grown, and led to positive social and cultural change, definitively showing readers that running has and will continue to make history. Roger Robinson is a literary scholar, award-winning writer, and longtime elite runner. He has represented England and New Zealand in world championships, set records as a master at the Boston, New York, Vancouver, and other marathons, and returned after a knee replacement to set records in the over-seventy age group. He is the author or editor of works such as the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature and was a senior writer for Running Times. Robinson has published often in Runner’s World, Canadian Running, and European magazines. He lives in New York state and Wellington, New Zealand, with his wife, running pioneer Kathrine Switzer. Colin Mustful has an M.A. in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is currently a candidate for an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.colinmustful.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“A race can mean more than a race,” Roger Robinson writes in his new book, When Running Made History. “It can show that human beings are still capable of attaining pure beauty through arduous endeavor.” Written as a personal history, elite runner and literary scholar Roger Robinson expresses the vast and often untold history of running as seen through his own eyes. Whether it was the Boston Marathon in 2014, the 1948 Olympic games in London, or the 1988 World Cross-Country Championships, Roger Robinson was there. Using descriptive literary prose, Robinson captures running’s most historic moments while considering their significance and impact on the world. Robinson considers how running has changed, grown, and led to positive social and cultural change, definitively showing readers that running has and will continue to make history. Roger Robinson is a literary scholar, award-winning writer, and longtime elite runner. He has represented England and New Zealand in world championships, set records as a master at the Boston, New York, Vancouver, and other marathons, and returned after a knee replacement to set records in the over-seventy age group. He is the author or editor of works such as the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature and was a senior writer for Running Times. Robinson has published often in Runner’s World, Canadian Running, and European magazines. He lives in New York state and Wellington, New Zealand, with his wife, running pioneer Kathrine Switzer. Colin Mustful has an M.A. in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is currently a candidate for an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.colinmustful.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“A race can mean more than a race,” Roger Robinson writes in his new book, When Running Made History. “It can show that human beings are still capable of attaining pure beauty through arduous endeavor.” Written as a personal history, elite runner and literary scholar Roger Robinson expresses the vast and often untold history of running as seen through his own eyes. Whether it was the Boston Marathon in 2014, the 1948 Olympic games in London, or the 1988 World Cross-Country Championships, Roger Robinson was there. Using descriptive literary prose, Robinson captures running’s most historic moments while considering their significance and impact on the world. Robinson considers how running has changed, grown, and led to positive social and cultural change, definitively showing readers that running has and will continue to make history. Roger Robinson is a literary scholar, award-winning writer, and longtime elite runner. He has represented England and New Zealand in world championships, set records as a master at the Boston, New York, Vancouver, and other marathons, and returned after a knee replacement to set records in the over-seventy age group. He is the author or editor of works such as the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature and was a senior writer for Running Times. Robinson has published often in Runner’s World, Canadian Running, and European magazines. He lives in New York state and Wellington, New Zealand, with his wife, running pioneer Kathrine Switzer. Colin Mustful has an M.A. in history from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is currently a candidate for an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Augsburg University. You can learn more about his work at his website: www.colinmustful.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on StoryWeb: Janet Frame’s memoir “An Angel at My Table.” If you haven’t read Janet Frame’s work and if you haven’t seen Jane Campion’s film An Angel at My Table, you must rectify these oversights immediately. You’ve likely heard of New Zealand film director Jane Campion – or at least seen one of her films. Probably the best known of them is The Piano, starring Holly Hunter. It won Campion the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1994. And you may have seen Campion’s adaptation of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady, a film that starred Nicole Kidman. But to my mind and sensibility, An Angel at My Table – based on New Zealand writer Janet Frame’s three-volume memoir – is a too-often-overlooked masterpiece. Reading Janet Frame’s work – whether the three-volume memoir or her short fiction – is a treat in and of itself. But Jane Campion’s film brings New Zealand to vivid life and immerses us viscerally in Frame’s difficult but ultimately triumphant and redemptive life. Three actresses play Frame at various ages, from her childhood in a poor, working class family in Dunedin to her adolescence marked by devastating loss to her adult years, which take Frame to a psychiatric hospital, to England and Spain, and eventually back to New Zealand. I won’t give away any more of Frame’s life story – you must watch Campion’s film or read Frame’s memoirs (or both!). But I will tell you this. Since An Angel at My Table is one of my favorite films (along with Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins and Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust), I insisted that my book and movie club watch it. As we watched the film together, my friend Karin kept exclaiming as Janet Frame endured one tragedy after another. Karin felt the film was unrelenting in its bleakness and sorrow. But for me, Janet Frame’s story is ultimately one of triumph, redemption, and even celebration. The ending is my favorite part of the film: Janet Frame dancing in her father’s shoes, typing her work in a small trailer outside her sister’s house, and most of all, remembering how she and her sisters would sing the Robert Burns poem “Ah, ah! the wooing o’it.” Just typing those words – “Ah, ah! the wooing o’it” – makes me smile, as I reflect on what Janet Frame made of her life. To learn more about this wonderful writer, visit the website of the Janet Frame Literary Trust or the multipage exhibit about Frame at the Encyclopedia of New Zealand website. You also might want to read Michael King's book-length biography, Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame, or The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature’s biography of her. The Guardian published an excellent obituary of Frame when she died in 2004, as did the New York Times. Visit thestoryweb.com/frame for links to all these resources and to watch a six-part New Zealand television documentary about Janet Frame. It features interviews with this wonderful writer. You’ll also want to watch the trailer to Jane Campion’s film and the short 30-second scene when the young Janet and her sisters sing “Ah, ah! the wooing o’it.”