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Deborah ShepardThe Art of Writing From Life
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The Writing Life - Twelve New Zealand Authors
A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip Temple, David Hill, Joy Cowley, Vincent O’Sullivan, Albert Wendt, Marilyn Duckworth, Chris Else, Fiona Kidman and Witi Ihimaera. Constructed as Q&As with experienced oral historian Deborah Shepard, they offer a marvellous insight into their careers. As a group they are now the ‘elders’ of New Zealand literature; they forged the path for the current generation. Together the authors trace their publishing and literary history from 1959 to 2018, through what might now be viewed as a golden era of publishing into the more unsettled climate of today. |
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Interview with Karen Craig for the Auckland Central Library Books and Beyond podcasts
The Writing Life was selected as one of the top ten, in the Auckland Libraries Top 100 for 2018, a list of recommended reads curated by librarians and drawn from readers’ favourite books. |
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AFTERGLOW: The Writing Life: Twelve New Zealand Authors by Deborah Shepard
On Thursday November 8th, Unity hosted a lunchtime discussion between author Deborah Shepard, Massey University Press publisher Nicola Legat, Dame Fiona Kidman, and Patricia Grace about Shepard’s new book The Writing Life: Twelve New Zealand Authors.
(L-R): Patricia Grace, Dame Fiona Kidman, Nicola Legat, Deborah Shepard
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Deborah discussing her writing and interviewing process.
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Patricia Grace reading a poem by Hone Tuwhare.
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Grace and Kidman signing copies of ‘The Writing Life’.
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About Deborah ShepardDEBORAH SHEPARD is a biographer, oral historian and teacher of memoir. She has also been a film, television and media studies lecturer at the University of Auckland. She has written entries on women filmmakers for the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, the Le Dictionnaire Universel des Creatrices, (The Universal Dictionary of Women Creators) published in Paris in 2013 and in 2014 she contributed an updated ‘Reframing Women. Gender et Cinéma en Aotearoa Nouvelle-Zélande (1999-2014) to a special issue on gender, globalisation and film for the transdisciplinary, French-based and UNESCO-supported journal Diogenes.
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Her major publications include Her Life’s Work: Conversation with Five New Zealand Women (2009), Between the Lives: Partners in Art (2005), Reframing Women: a History of New Zealand Film (2000) and Giving Yourself to Life: A Journal of Pain, Hope and Renewal (2015).
Her new book The Writing Life based on oral history interviews with twelve of New Zealand’s most acclaimed and admired authors is due out on 6 November. Deborah teaches introductory and master classes in memoir, biography and journal writing at the University of Auckland’s Public Programmes and is a life writing mentor for the New Zealand Society of Authors. She lives in Auckland.
Her new book The Writing Life based on oral history interviews with twelve of New Zealand’s most acclaimed and admired authors is due out on 6 November. Deborah teaches introductory and master classes in memoir, biography and journal writing at the University of Auckland’s Public Programmes and is a life writing mentor for the New Zealand Society of Authors. She lives in Auckland.