This seminar is on 10 February, 12-1pm.

 

Introductions to the work of international writers featured in New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week by Victoria University Senior Lecturer Jane Stafford and Reader in English Harry Ricketts.

The creative lives of some of literature’s greats – Virginia Woolf, Henry James, TS Eliot and Charlotte Bronte – have provided Lyndall Gordon with rich material.

 

Arguably the pre-eminent chronicler of our era, Jan Morris has combined a journalist’s eye with a traveller’s sensibility to bring us, in beautifully crafted prose, the stories of ourselves over the last century.

 

One of literature’s brightest new stars, MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Aleksandar Hemon displays a prodigious talent that has attracted comparison with Nabokov and Conrad.

Joe Sacco 

Delivering “one of the most creative and unique visions in the arts today” (Time Magazine), Joe Sacco’s comics journalism powerfully brings the Middle East and Bosnia to life.