THE GOOD NEWS
Featherston
Booktown – a three-day celebration of books, writers and literature – is
returning to the Wairarapa town for the second time from May 20-22.
Joy Cowley, who
lives in Featherston and composer Gareth Farr have joined together to put
rhythm into Joy's book, Scary Music.
Please Google Featherston Booktown for all the details
– it should be a very special few days .
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| Photo of Joy in her Featherston home taken by Maarten Holl/ Fairfax Media |
An author virtually
unknown in this country has won $50,000 at the Ockham New Zealand
Book Awards.
Stephen
Daisley — originally from Raetihi but a longtime resident
of Western Australia — is the surprise winner of the
fiction category with his second novel, Coming Rain. He
faced serious competition from Patricia Grace, Patrick Evans and
newcomer David Coventry.
The prestige of winning
the country's top literary honour is capped by the $50,000 Acorn
Foundation Literary Prize, which will buy Daisley some time to dedicate to
his next book.
Other awards, each
accompanied by $10,000 prizes, went to Witi Ihimaera for his memoir Maori
Boy,
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| Witi at the Edinburgh Festival 2014 - photogapher unknown |
David Eggleton
for his poetry collection The Conch Trumpet, and Tangata
Whenua authors Aroha Harris, Atholl Anderson and the
late Judith Binney.
Acknowledgements: I
copied this word for word from STUFF
AND THE NOT SO GOOD NEWS
I saw on Facebook this
morning that another National Treasure (see Dave Gunson’s book posted earlier), Kate
Harcourt, is in hospital following a heart attack. That she is loved and known by so many people
is shown by the amazingly astronomical number of hits and likes this piece of
news has already collected.
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