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Imagine having a conversation with three celebrated writers, from different parts of the world, at the same time - that's just what our Salon Series allows you to do.
Joining us via livestream in the Aotea Centre across three mornings, the authors read from, and talk about, their latest work with Salon host Paula Morris - and face your burning questions. On FRIDAY take in the company of Chilean literary legend Isabel Allende with The Soul of a Woman, a meditation on power and feminism; UK-based Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlisted poet Mohamed Hassan with his debut collection National Anthem; and Chinese-American writer and teacher Yiyun Li with her brilliant new novel Must I Go. On SATURDAY morning, sit with Kiwi expat Miro Bilbrough talking about her memoir of a 1970s childhood in a Marlborough Sounds commune In The Time of the Manaroans. US fiction doyenne Marilynne Robinson talks about her latest novel Jack and Booker-prize-winning Glaswegian novelist Douglas Stuart talks Shuggie Bain. Wrapping up on SUNDAY is Irish actor and memoirist Gabriel Byrne with Walking With Ghosts; Melbourne-based Māori crime writer JP Pomare with latest thriller Tell Me Lies; and the London-based Caribbean Costa Book of the Year author Monique Roffey with The Mermaid of Black Conch.
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OUR 2021 MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS
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Variation form has long been regarded as a virtuoso test of skill across many artistic disciplines, and in her latest book, Moth Hour, Anne Kennedy uses 18th-century German composer Ludwig van Beethoven's famous Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli as a springboard for her own haunting 'Thirty-Three Transformations on a Theme of Philip', a response to the tragic accidental death of her brother Philip at a young age. In this collection, "words form little melodies, solo instruments sound out, there is echo, overlap, loop and patterning," writes reviewer Paula Green. In a uniquely symmetrical performance, The 33 (39) Anne reads her poems alongside performances by acclaimed pianist Sarah Watkins from the Diabelli variations that so shaped this collection.
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He whakaaturanga pō, he inati hoki, e whakatōpū ana i ētahi ringatuhi me ētahi kaiwhakatangi taonga pūoro rangatira ki tētahi kaupapa whatu ā-kupu i te reo me te waiata. Mā Arihia Latham rātou ko Anahera Gildea, ko Becky Manawatu, ko essa may ranapiri, ko Tusiata Avia koe e ārahi ki tētahi haerenga ā-oro, ā-kupu anō, i inamata noa atu, ki anamata noa atu. He taonga pūoro ka whakatangi mataoratia e te ringatito, e te ringa pūoru, e te ringa toikupu hoki, e Ruby Solly rāua ko te rau kahurangi toi, ko Ariana Tikao. Ka rangona hoki he titonga nā ngā ringatoi, nā Rob Thorne rātou ko Horomona Horo, ko Richard Nunns, ko Al Fraser kua oti kē te rekoatahia.
This performance is part of the Oro series, curated by Ruby Solly. Supported by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori | Māori Language Commission
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If it's a more behind-the-scenes take on song-writing you're after, don't miss A Celebration of Song (14) in which three champions of contemporary Aotearoa songwriting talk with Moana Maniapoto about their artistry, challenges and inspirations. Acoustic performances round out the conversation, and with Reb Fountain, Tom Scott and Marlon Williams behind the mic there is a reason tickets are moving quickly for this one.
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SHOWS WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE AT THE FESTIVAL...
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But don't just take it from us, check out MiNDFOOD's TOP PICKS: Rockstars, art activists, a Nobel Laureate and some of the biggest names in NZ writing - 2021 Auckland Writers Festival is not to be missed...
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Award-winning photographer Jane Ussher is one of NZ’s most extraordinary and prodigious artists, producing four beautiful illustrative texts in the last year alone, two of which received Ockham NZ Book Awards listings. In the shortlisted Nature Stilled she portrays the wonders of Te Papa’s natural history collection, and with Frances Walsh in Ockham longlisted Endless Sea, Auckland’s Maritime Museum treasures are brought into the light. Chief photographer at the New Zealand Listener for 29 years before taking up her freelance career, Ussher is a true master with the lens. Enter by Friday 16 April, to go in the draw for a double pass and a book. Nailing the Shot: Jane Ussher (77).
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WITH THANKS TO OUR MAJOR FESTIVAL PARTNERS:
 
  
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