Sunday, September 23, 2018
News, books and events from AUP
Anne Salmond shortlisted for £25k British Academy prize
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Professor Dame Anne Salmond has been shortlisted for the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan prize—awarded by the British Academy for a book that makes "an outstanding contribution to global cultural understanding". The Award ceremony will take place at the British Academy in London on the evening of 30 October. Dame Anne Salmond was also the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award this year.
Recent Events: Authors Greg Ryan and Geoff Watson kick off their new book Sport and the New Zealanders: A History in style in Christcurch at Scorpio Books.
Sat 15 September: Book Launch at Going West Writers Festival
Attend the launch of C. K. Stead's new poetry collection at Going West Writers Festival. C. K. Stead will read from and sign copies of his new book That Derrida Whom I Derided Died: Poems 2013–2017 (available for purchase at the event). Drinks and nibbles provided. Find out more information here.
• 5.30–7pm, Saturday 15 September
• Going West, Titirangi War Memorial Hall, 500 South Titirangi Rd
Tue 25 September: C. K. Stead with Kevin Ireland at Devonport Library
Devonport Library Associates Author Event: In conversation with poet and writer Kevin Ireland, C. K. Stead will be discussing his new collection That Derrida Whom I Derided Died: Poems 2013–2017 (available for purchase at the event). Drinks and nibbles available.
• 7–9pm, Tuesday 25 September
• Devonport Library
The fully te reo Māori book He Kupu Tuku Iho: Ko te Reo Māori te Tatau ki te Ao written by Tīmoti Kāretu and Wharehuia Milroy sold out within just two weeks of publication in July! But we're pleased to announce that new stock has arrived in stores just in time for the beginning of this year's Te Wiki o te reo Māori (Māori Language Week).
AUP is especially proud of the scholarly works about Māori culture, language and history that we have published for decades, but if our recent books are anything to go by we reckon we're just getting warmed up. Kia kaha te reo Māori!
That Derrida Whom I Derided Died: Poems 2013–2017
C. K. Stead
Paperback, $29.99
A new collection from New Zealand’s most distinguished living poet. In his eighty-sixth year, C. K. Stead’s That Derrida Whom I Derided Died leads us deep inside the life of the poet. He looks back at his younger self, remembering old loves, cringing at his ‘lugubrious rhyming’ and takes us with him on the poetical life: from Dogshit Park in Budapest to a Zagreb bookshop to the Christchurch Word Festival.
Social Science Research in New Zealand: An Introduction
Eds. Martin Tolich and Carl Davidson
Paperback, $69.99
How do we make sense of Aotearoa New Zealand’s diverse and changing society? This new tertiary level textbook introduces readers to the range of theories, approaches and techniques that we will need to understand this country in the twenty-first century. For anyone coming to the many paths of social research for the first time, Social Science Research in New Zealand is the perfect introduction.
'To say that this book adds considerably to the literature about the monarchy in New Zealand would be an understatement. For those interested in the position of the Queen (and her successors) with respect to New Zealand, as well as in possible alternatives, this is an indispensable work.' – Stephen Levine, NZ Books - A Quarterly Review
'Tse presents himself ironically as a "self-loathing poet" whose vocation estranges him from his family. He is also Asian, gay and a lover (not to mention a bandleader, a figure in a selfie, a rock star, a king or queen, a hitman, a local celebrity and ... Chris Tse). The number of proposed identities destroys the notion of a stable and circumscribed self.' – John Horrocks, NZ Books - A Quarterly Review
Publishers Weekly
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Executives at Reed Exhibitions confirmed that senior v-p Ed
Several will be leaving the company this fall, and that for the foreseeable
future Jenny Martin, event manager for BookExpo and BookCon, will lead both
events. more
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Publishers Lunch
Eamon Dolan will
join Simon & Schuster Publishing Group as vice president and executive
editor starting October 1. Dolan was most recently with Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, where he ran his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books, which was shut
down in July. Simon & Schuster president and publisher Jonathan Karp
says, "Eamon will continue to do what he has done so brilliantly for
years: Identify, edit, and publish some of the best writers and thinkers in the
culture – authors whose works are relevant to understanding our times and how
they are changing, and capable of being just as meaningful in the future as
they are today."
Tamar Brazis will join Viking Children's as editorial director, picture books, reporting to Ken Wright. She will develop her own list of picture books and work more broadly on expanding the imprint's picture book list. She was editorial director at Abrams Children's, where she worked for nearly 15 years. Wright says: "I have followed Tamar's career from the sidelines for years and hoped for many of them that she and I would one day work together. I am really very excited that Tamar will bring her immense talent and her instinct for what makes great commercial and literary picture books to Viking and Penguin Young Readers."
Alice Tassel has been promoted to director of the French Publishers' Agency in New York. Lucinda Karter is leaving to become a full time agent with the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency.
Devin Ross has been promoted to literary agent at New Leaf Literary & Media.
Longtime Reed Exhibitions executive, senior vp Ed Several, who led the energetic "reimagined" Book Expo that nonetheless drew fewer booksellers and librarians, is leaving the company in October for another job after 14 years with the company. Event manager Jenny Martin "will be stepping into the leadership role for the foreseeable future" at Book Expo. Reed Pop Global president Lance Fensterman and vp Michael Kisken will continue to oversee the event.
Tamar Brazis will join Viking Children's as editorial director, picture books, reporting to Ken Wright. She will develop her own list of picture books and work more broadly on expanding the imprint's picture book list. She was editorial director at Abrams Children's, where she worked for nearly 15 years. Wright says: "I have followed Tamar's career from the sidelines for years and hoped for many of them that she and I would one day work together. I am really very excited that Tamar will bring her immense talent and her instinct for what makes great commercial and literary picture books to Viking and Penguin Young Readers."
Alice Tassel has been promoted to director of the French Publishers' Agency in New York. Lucinda Karter is leaving to become a full time agent with the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency.
Devin Ross has been promoted to literary agent at New Leaf Literary & Media.
Longtime Reed Exhibitions executive, senior vp Ed Several, who led the energetic "reimagined" Book Expo that nonetheless drew fewer booksellers and librarians, is leaving the company in October for another job after 14 years with the company. Event manager Jenny Martin "will be stepping into the leadership role for the foreseeable future" at Book Expo. Reed Pop Global president Lance Fensterman and vp Michael Kisken will continue to oversee the event.
At Open Road, Megan Buckman has
been promoted to director of production.
Awards
Editor and publisher Tim Duggan will receive the Biographers International Organization's editorial excellence award.
The National Book Foundation will award Isabel Allende with its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a lifetime achievement award. Allende is the author of The House of Spirits and 22 other titles, as well as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN America. NBF board of directors chairman David Steinberger says, "Able to forge profoundly emotional connections with readers around the world, Isabel Allende has offered generations of fans multilayered and deeply felt narratives that illuminate the rich lives and histories of her characters. Allende pulls from her own experiences to offer a global audience access to geographically and culturally specific stories that might otherwise never reach them." Luis Alberto Urrea will present Allende the award at the NBA ceremony on November 14.
Editor and publisher Tim Duggan will receive the Biographers International Organization's editorial excellence award.
The National Book Foundation will award Isabel Allende with its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a lifetime achievement award. Allende is the author of The House of Spirits and 22 other titles, as well as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN America. NBF board of directors chairman David Steinberger says, "Able to forge profoundly emotional connections with readers around the world, Isabel Allende has offered generations of fans multilayered and deeply felt narratives that illuminate the rich lives and histories of her characters. Allende pulls from her own experiences to offer a global audience access to geographically and culturally specific stories that might otherwise never reach them." Luis Alberto Urrea will present Allende the award at the NBA ceremony on November 14.
Writers on Mondays
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Applications Invited for Randell Cottage Writers Residency
21 September 2018
Applications Invited for
Randell Cottage Writers Residency
Built
in Thorndon in 1867, the Cottage has been painstakingly restored and is close
to the National Library, the Turnbull Library and the National Archive.
It’s provided an inner city base for writers from a range of genres: novelists,
poets, biographers... The first New Zealand resident was Peter Wells, in 2002.
He’s been followed by Tim Corballis, Michael Harlow, Renée, Beryl Fletcher,
Whiti Hereaka, Jennifer Compton, Kirsty Gunn, Pat White, Peter Walker, Vivienne
Plumb, Denis Welch, Tina Makereti, Witi Ihimaera, Owen Marshall, Stephanie
Johnson, and Stephen Daisley.
The
current writer in residence is Christchurch poet James Norcliffe.
The Randell Cottage Creative New Zealand Writer in
Residence is selected by a Trust -appointed committee
to work on an approved project from July to December each year. The deadline
for applications is Friday, 2 November 2018. The successful applicant will be
announced in December.
Applications
from mid-career and Māori and Pasifika writers are particularly welcome.
Application forms and further
information can be found at http://www.randellcottage.co.nz/residency/application/ and
ok the Books - Author Event
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
ESCAPE ! TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Escape! to the great outdoors
A perfume from Saudi Arabia that evoked the country’s
landscape crystallised a business idea for Tauranga couple Serena and Harold
Jones – using scent to create a unique sense of place.The result is Queenstown Natural Perfumiers, which debuted its collection last year. “Our natural environment is New Zealand’s true luxury. It’s totally amazing and often undervalued,” says Serena Jones, who has studied botany and horticulture.
“Queenstown Lakes is among New Zealand’s finest landscapes so we sought to find and express the region’s essential scents.”
After 2 years of research and development involving professional perfumiers in New Zealand and France, the keen trampers and bush walkers released four scents – Mountain Herbs, Wilderness Berries, Lakeland Flora and High Country Tussock.
The perfumes will be available to sample at the Escape!
festival in Tauranga early next month as part of Scents of a Landscape on
Sunday, June 3 with Harold Jones, who is also a poet (AUP New Poets 4), and
award-winning novelist Laurence Fearnley, discussing the power of scent to
enhance feeling, awareness and memory.
Fearnley – who has been ‘scent mapping’ her Dunedin
neighbourhood for 2 years – also tutors a workshop in writing “beyond the visual”
on Saturday, June 2. She is working on a book of essays on scent and a novel
structured like a perfume with top notes, heart notes and base notes.
Also exploring the outdoors at Escape! is Geoff Chapple who
will take his audience from Cape Reinga to Bluff across the 3000km Te Araroa
Walkway of New Zealand on Friday, June 1.Chapple, who took up the project when it became clear local authorities would not, began mapping the North Island trail, talking to every council and DoC conservancy on the route but in 1997 decided the only way to whip up interest was to walk the trail and write as he went, using the new-fangled internet and so becoming one of this country’s first bloggers.
His first national interview took place near Whangarei with
Radio NZ’s Kim Hill. “Listeners could hear a mad old woman cursing me – I only
had one hand on the cellphone for most of the interview in case I had to fend
her off.” Blog views went into the thousands.
“I was just about a vagabond,” Chapple recalls, “sleeping in
public toilets on wet nights. My family and I were made very poor by that
5-month tramp and I couldn’t have done it without the support of my wife
[Miriam Beatson].”
A $30,000 grant in 2002 enabled him to design and walk the
South Island trail – “and I suddenly had a credit card that worked”.
Te Araroa Walkway of New Zealand officially opened on
December 3, 2011 with Chapple’s guidebook published at the same time. After
standing down as the trust’s chief executive in 2012, Chapple received an ONZM.
Shared Kitchen
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Friday, May 11, 2018
EAT YOUR BOOKS
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