Jennifer Sturm: Anna Kavan
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| Fri 14 May ’10, 3:00pm–4:00pm |
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Where: Lower NZI Room, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Dr, Auckland CBD Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
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- Standard, from 12 May: $19.50
- Earlybird: $16.50
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New Zealanders live "in temporary shacks, uneasily, as reluctant campers too far from home", wrote Anna Kavan in a London magazine in 1943.
Previously thought to be hostile to New Zealand, in researching the prize-winning English author of 19 books, Dr Jennifer Sturm uncovered letters and unpublished short stories written during Kavan’s 2-year stay, published for the first time in Anna Kavan's New Zealand (2009), which add weight to the argument that Kavan had a more complex and affectionate response.
Sturm discusses the experimental writer and talented artist -- whose life included bouts of depression, heroin addiction and a stream of unconventional love affairs -- with Peter Wells, giving us an intriguing insight into both the writer, and New Zealand in the 1940s.
Presented as a part of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.
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