NZ author and Lower Hutt teacher, Bernard Beckett, was interviewed by Kim Hill on the radio this morning. You can listen directly here or follow the link from this page (the audio will be up for another eight weeks). Beckett made the news recently when the UK rights to his book Genesis were sold for 100,000 quid.
Tag: Writing
Australian author Sonya Hartnett has won the sixth annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, walking away with a cool 5 million kronor ($965,600!). Hartnett is an intelligent author who’s not afraid of tackling some tricky subjects. So congratulations to her, and to all those writers out there: keep working at it and one day…
Spinebreakers is an online book review site run by Penguin books. Check it out: there’s heaps of reviews and interviews, plus if you’re really keen (and you write quality reviews) you could become a contributing editor…
