Carl Nixon and Sarah Quigley
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When:
| Sat 14 May ’11, 1:00pm–2:00pm |
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Where: Lower NZI Room, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Dr, Auckland CBD Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Festival Club: $16.00
- Early Bird: $20.00
- Standard: $25.00
- Student : $12.50
- Booking fees may apply
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Coincidentally, Carl Nixon and Sarah Quigley were friends at high school and university in Christchurch – both are now acclaimed writers and they catch up to talk about their latest work.
Quigley’s "The Conductor" is set in Leningrad, besieged by Nazi troops in 1941: the composer Dmitri Shostakovich spends his days digging ditches to defend his city, and his nights composing a new symphonic work.
Nixon’s "Settlers' Creek", which reviewers nationwide named as one of the top books of 2010, is by contrast very much a “New Zealand” novel, exploring the claims of both indigenous people and more recent settlers to have a spiritual link to the land.
Chair: Graham Beattie.
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