The Marlborough Book Festival
The Marlborough Book Festival is an annual readers and writers festival held in July in Marlborough, New Zealand.
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An Hour with Tayi Tibble (opens the original)
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Tayi Tibble in conversation with Louis Pinker Meihana at the 2024 Marlborough Book Festival Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Porou) is a poet and writer. Her first collection of poetry, Poūkahangatus, won the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Tayi’s second book, Rangikura was shortlisted for the 2022 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham Awards. Her work has been published in various journals and magazines. In July 2023 her poem “Creat
Lauren Keenan - The Space Between (opens the original)
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Lauren Keenan in conversation with Emma Tucker at the 2024 Marlborough Book Festival Lauren’s gripping historical novel set amid the New Zealand Wars in 1860 was an instant bestseller. Drawing on her study of Taranaki history, Lauren has told the story of two fictional women: English-raised Frances Farrington whose spiteful brother ensures their once well regarded family is out of step with settler society and Māori wahine Matāria White, a returned slave who married an Englishman and struggles f
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