Friday, October 12, 2007


WRITERS ON MONDAYS - For Wellingtonians

15 October: Life Class - Brenda Niall

Brenda Niall is one of the very few writers to be awarded an AO (Order of Australia) for ‘services to Australian literature, as academic, biographer and literary critic’. She is the author of four award-winning biographies including a five-generation study of the Boyd dynasty of artists, and a life of the Sydney painter, Judy Cassab. She has also written on children’s fiction and edited the Oxford Book of Australian Letters. Her book reviews appear regularly in Australian journals and newspapers. This year she published Life Class, in which she retraces her literary footsteps to discuss the pleasures and pitfalls of biographical discovery.
She talks with Harry Ricketts.

All Writers on Mondays events are open to the public and take place at City Gallery Wellington, Civic Square, at 1-2pm.
Admission is free.

For further information see http://www.vuw.ac.nz/modernletters or email modernletters@vuw.ac.nz or ring 463 6854.



1 comment:

Lapa said...

TOP PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE UNIVERSAL WRITER: CRISTOVAO DE AGUIAR

(PASSANGER IN TRANSIT)

wrote about Portuguese colonial war

BOOKS:

“PASSAGEIRO EM TRÂNSITO” ; “RAIZ COMOVIDA”; “RELAÇÃO DE
BORDO”; “MARILHA”; “A TABUADA DO TEMPO”; BRAÇO TATUADO”; “MIGUEL TORGA O LAVRADOR DAS LETRAS”

He has, also, translated into Portuguese the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

He has been awarded several prizes.

Don't forget the name of this great author, you'll be hearing of him soon.


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