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KATE DE GOLDIKate De Goldi is a Wellington writer. Her latest novel,The 10pm Question has been on the New Zealand fiction bestseller list since it was published twelve months ago. It was New Zealand Post Book of the Year and the Reader's Choice in the Montana Book Awards. Kate also presents book reviews regularly on radio and television. |
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MIRANDA HARCOURTMiranda Harcourt, ONZM, is an actor, writer and director. She's most recently appeared at Downstage in her play Biography of My Skin — her fourth solo show – which sets out to tell her story about being a working mother. Miranda's taught at Toi Whakaari, acted and directed for the stage and film and is still remembered for her big hair and shoulder pads in TV's Gloss last century. |
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ELIZABETH KNOXElizabeth Knox is an adventurous and imaginative fiction writer, whose novel, The Vintner's Luck, was a huge success with readers and critics alike; winning a Montana Book Award, and the Tasmanian Pacific Region Prize. The Vintner's Luck has been made into a film by Niki Caro. Dreamhunter (2005) and Dreamquake (2007) form a thrilling novel duet, aimed at young adults. Both books earned American Library Association Best book awards, and Dreamquake won a Michael L Printz Honor in 2008. Twilight author Stephenie Meyer recently called the Duet 'wonderful, amazing and unique ... like nothing else I've ever read.' |
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TOM SCOTTTom Scott has been writing and drawing about politics for many years, along the way storing up lines and plot ideas for the script that finally made it to the screen earlier this year — Separation City, a Kiwi film about men falling out of love for the first time. He's done other films and television as well, notably about the Erebus disaster and Sir Ed, and has resisted all attempts to shift him from Wellington, the city he loves. |
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