12th Annual Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture

The 12th Annual Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture

Knowing Your Place - Catherine Chidgey

Novelist and short story writer, Catherine Chidgey, will address the idea of place in her writing at this lecture. She will consider the ways in which the real world impinges on the imaginary, and explore some of the tricks a writer can use to make an imaginary place seem real.

Catherine’s novels have been published to international acclaim. They have been selected as books of the year by Time Out magazine (London), the New York Times Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. The Herald notes that “Chidgey could tackle any subject and produce something wonderful”. Her awards include the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award, the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) Prize, and Best First Book in both the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Asia-Pacific region) and the New Zealand Book Awards. In 2003 the Listener voted her best New Zealand novelist under forty. Catherine is a literary adviser to the Sargeson Trust and teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato. She is currently completing her fourth novel.

DATE Thursday 16 October, 2014 –

Free community event, all welcome!

TIME Lecture begins at 5.30pm. Light refreshments to follow, from 6.30pm

VENUE SG.03, S Block, University of WaikatoPARKING Gate 1, off Knighton Road, Hamilton

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