The Infinite Air is being launched in its German edition at Frankfurt Book Fair in October.
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Telling Stories: Life writing and memoir course 2016
A Writing Programme in Wellington
Dame Fiona Kidman will conduct a course of workshops over four Saturdays from August to September 2016: 6 August, 20 August, 3 September, 17 September.
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This Change in the Light: a collection of poems
Godwit Publishing has just released my new collection of poems, a companion volume to the bestselling Where your left hand rests.
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Les Livres des Secrets
The Book of Secrets had a great run in France last year as Les Livres des secrets (Sabine Wespieser Editeur).
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Better than Fiction
Better than Fiction 2, True adventures from 30 great fiction writers (Lonely Planet 2015) includes the story “The Road to Lost Places” by Fiona, and stories by Jane Smiley, Alexander McCall Smith, Marina Lewycka, Lloyd Jones and Avi Duckor-Jones.
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An Innocent Abroad: Life changing trips from 35 great writers
An Innocent Abroad: Life changing trips from 35 great writers is Lonely Planet’s annual collection of literary essays. It’s edited by Don George, who writes in his Introduction that ‘[these stories] all ultimately illuminate one common truth: However it manifests itself when we travel, innocence can be a life-changing catalyst for discovery, connection, and transformation on …
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Fiona and Fiona
Fiona Farrell (centre) and I read at Wairarapa Word in Carterton early this month (Fiona and Fiona). We travelled by train to Matarawa and had a superb lunch at the home of artist Rhondda Greig (left) before our reading (see the food column). Our bookseller was Almo’s Books at Carterton, the moderator of the …
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One happy month
Over one happy month The Book of Secrets has appeared in Paris as Le Livre des Secrets to full-page reviews in nearly all leading daily newspapers; my poetry collection, Where your left hand rests is translated into Italian as Dove si posa la mano sinistra (by a team of translators in New Zealand and Italy, led by Marco Sonzogni from Victoria University); and …
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A Winter Writing Programme in Wellington, 2014
Dame Fiona Kidman will conduct her writing course over six Saturdays from June to August 2014. There is special emphasis on life writing and memoir. With guest speakers: Harry Ricketts, poet and internationally acclaimed biographer of Rudyard Kipling (The Unforgiving Minute); Mary McCallum, poet, children’s writer, publisher and author of best-selling and award-winning novel The Blue; Julia Millen, historian, …
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Echoes of Women — a French tribute to Fiona Kidman
Echoes of Women is a photographic exhibition presenting 12 diptychs (80×40), with Dame Fiona Kidman’s handwritten texts on one side and black and white photos of New Zealand on the other side. The signed and limited edition of the prints can be purchased during the exhibitions. All profits will go directly to two beneficiaries: New Zealand …
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