Literature

Rejection makes you stop in your tracks. No sooner do your eyes trace over the words: I am writing to inform you… Then your heart sinks, your eyes well with tears, the piece of paper falls to the… Audio

Kate Camp discusses Persuasion, the 1818 novel by Jane Austen. Audio

A Porirua man has been reconnected with a unique part of his Cook Island heritage. Tengaepu o te Rangi Tararo is originally from the island of Mauke in the Cook Islands. He's a father of six… Audio

A panel discussion about contemporary literature dealing with the First World War involving Harry Ricketts, Kate Camp, Jane Stafford and Matt Elliott. The conversation includes generous readings from… Audio

Writer Jack Lasenby on his latest literary achievement - winning the 2014 Prime Minister's Award for Fiction. He is one of New Zealand's best loved writers for children and was described by Margaret… Audio

Canadian award-winning film director and screenwriter, David Cronenberg's body of film work has often portrayed controversial and shocking subject matter, with movies including: Dead Ringers, The Fly… Audio

Literary commentators Kate Camp, Harry Ricketts, Jane Stafford and Kate Hunter look at literature from the front lines, including 'Storm of Steel', 'Testament of Youth' and 'We Shall Not Cease'. What… Audio

Dunedin is hoping to join Edinburgh as a UNESCO city of literature. An honour bestowed to date on just six cities worldwide. Audio

This school holiday, Capital E are presenting a Book Bazaar as a way to get children excited about storytelling through words and pictures. To help them along, authors from Gecko Press are leading… Audio

Novelist and short story writer, Elspeth Sandys has published eight novels and two collections of short stories, and has written extensively for the BBC and Radio New Zealand. Her novel River Lines… Audio

We find out how Ron Sang manages to combine a busy career as an architect with being a contemporary art collector, award-winning writer and publisher. Audio

Poet, novelist, translator, anthologist, publisher, and author of the new book, The Novel: A Biography, visiting New Zealand as a guest of the NZ Centre for Literary Translation, in association with… Audio

Four TED speakers explore the art of storytelling - and how good stories have the power to transform our perceptions of the world. Featuring the TED Talks 1. Andrew Stanton: What Makes A Good Story… Audio

French writer and poet Jacques Roubaud is described as a senior statesman of European literature and world poetry. His latest translated book, Mathematics, pays homage to one of the great passions of… Audio

Staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of The Road to Middlemarch : My Life with George Eliot, detailing her relationship with the 1874 novel. Audio

Tennessee Williams, F Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Cheever, Carver, Berryman… Six giants of American literature - and all addicted to alcohol. In her new book 'The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers… Audio

Why the books of Jane Austen are still so adored, even though Jane's most famous novel Pride and Prejudice was published 200 years ago, with Professor Janet Todd from Lucy Cavendish College at the… Audio

Novelist, short story writer, anthologist and librettist, described by the Sunday Star Times as the Senior Statesman of New Zealand fiction. Audio

A lively exploration of the life of Shakespeare's wife by the noted writer and social critic Germaine Greer, recorded at the 2012 NZ International Arts Festival. Linda Hardy is in the chair. Audio

Janet Frame's niece, Pamela Gordon, has edited a new collection of short non-fiction and unseen material written by her aunt, one of New Zealand's most influential writers. Audio