Making History

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When:

Sat 13 Mar ’10, 12:30pm–1:45pm

Where: Embassy Theatre, 10 Kent Terrace, Mt Victoria, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

General Admission: $18.00
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.nzfestival.nzpost.co.nz

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Writing about history takes many forms, some fictional, some fact, and many somewhere in between.

Simon Schama is an historian whose hugely imaginative narratives have won him legions of fans, whether he is talking about A History of Britain or The American Future.

Daniel Kehlmann's epic novel about the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, and the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, is a fictional account of the very different worlds of two real enlightenment thinkers.

In Margo Lanagan's bitter folktale 'Tender Morsels' the writer creates a future for her characters by imagining a past.

All of these writers are storytellers and each has a unique way of engaging with the historical. Join these writers in conversation with Lydia Wevers as they talk about the relationship between narrative and history. Together they discuss the ways writing the future can be a form of history, and discover if writing about the past is, in some ways, a fiction.