Marlon James, Hanya Yanagihara to appear at 2016 Auckland Writers Festival

17 March 2016 Books+Publishing

Booker Prize-winning Jamaican-US novelist Marlon James, US novelist Hanya Yanagihara and US writer and activist Gloria Steinem are among the international authors appearing the 2016 Auckland Writers Festival, to be held at the Aotea Centre from 10-15 May.

Other international guests include UK TV personality and ornithologist Bill Oddie, UK author of the bestselling The Girl on The Train Paula Hawkins, Irish poet Paul Muldoon, UK author Jeanette Winterson, UK playwright and screenwriter David Hare, UK children’s book author Liz Pichon and US novelist Jane Smiley.

New Zealand authors appearing at the festival include Vincent O’Sullivan, Helene Wong, Brian Turner, Patrick Evans and Fiona Farrell, alongside Australian authors Peter Garrett, Omar Musa and Maxine Beneba Clarke.

Among the special events are New Zealand Opera director Stuart Maunder’s ‘Mad about Coward’, which celebrates the writing of UK playwright Noel Coward; a hip hop verse-off hosted by King Kapisi and Omar Musa; a jazz and spoken word concert with Paul Muldoon and local musicians; and a rehearsed reading of David Hare’s play ‘Skylight’.

The festival will also include the New Zealand Book Awards ceremony for the first time.

For more information, visit the festival website here.

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