Nineteen projects, located at sites from Great Barrier Island in the north to Dunedin in the south, won New Zealand Architecture Awards at a ceremony in Queenstown on Saturday 9 November. [For images of all award-winning projects, and brief project descriptions and judges’ citations, go to this dropbox.] Four of the projects, two of them…
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Dame Fiona Kidman has won this year’s $53,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her novel, This Mortal Boy, a work described by the judges as ‘moving, memorable, authentic and urgently relevant to our times.’ The book published by Penguin Random House received the honour ahead of a strong…
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People of all ages flocked to the 2019 Auckland Writers Festival this week, which broke its previous attendance record with more than 83,000 seats filled across seven days of tremendous conversations, inspiring performances and theatres filled with laughter at venues throughout the city’s centre. The Festival, which has seen year-on-year growth in the last eight…
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It’s time to grab your apron strings and lasso your neighbour’s free-range pig! The Topp Twins are back with a gorgeous book of mouth-watering recipes to see you right the whole year round. Join Dames Lynda and Jools as they go on a trip around New Zealand meeting passionate food producers, home cooks and lovers…
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New Zealand architecture takes its place on the world stage at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, which launches on 28 May. Official exhibitions from 62 countries will compete for attention at the six-month event, which attracts a quarter of a million visitors and is regarded as the ‘Olympics of architecture’. The Commissioner of the New…
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EXCELLENCE DRIVES FIERCE COMPETITION IN OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS’ SHORTLIST Debut writers and literary luminaries vie for the country’s premier book honours in today’s finalist announcement of 16 compelling works that explore and re-imagine the natural, cultural and creative landscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand. The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards’ 2020 finalists were selected…
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Unveiling of NZ Museum in Europe Commemorates Our Fallen, 100 Years On New Zealand will have a place in Europe to call home with the unveiling of the future memorial museum in Le Quesnoy, France on 4 November – a town Kiwi soldiers liberated one hundred years ago in the final week of World War…
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