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The Christchurch Book Festival Trust

Paddy Austin CHAIR
David Gregory
Heather Hapeta
Ros Henry
Christopher Moore
James Norcliffe
Gillian Newman
Robyn Stewart
Quentin Wilson


The Press Christchurch Writers’

Festival Programme Coordinators
Morrin Rout
Ruth Todd

 

Management Team

Guy Boyce FESTIVAL MANAGER
Andrea Petschner GENERAL MANAGER
Marianne Hargreaves MARKETING
Kate Hartnell OPERATIONS
Sebastian Hirsch SCHOOLS PROG. COORDINATOR
Siegrun Koop TICKETING
Helen Beswick PRODUCTION

FEATURED BOOKS

Xinran
China Witness

Her latest book, China Witness, is a groundbreaking work of oral history that gives voice to a forgotten generation, revealing the secret history of 20th-century China.

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Arnold Zable is an award winning writer, storyteller, educator, and human rights advocate. Formerly a lecturer in the Arts Faculty in Melbourne University, Zable has worked in the USA, Papua New Guinea, China, and many parts of Europe and Southeast Asia. His books include Jewels and Ashes, (Scribe, 1991) which won five Australian literary awards, and depicts his journey to Poland to trace his ancestry. Jewels and Ashes was also published in the USA by Harcourt Brace in 1993.

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Arnold Zable
Sea of Many Returns

Sea of Many Returns celebrates the migrant experience of generations of Ithacans, journeying from their beautiful Greek island home all the way across the world and back again. Written by Wellington-born novelist Arnold Zable, the novel is a profound meditation on displacement, nostalgia and exile—a story that affirms the enduring resonance of the Odyssey for voyagers of all times. ISBN 978 1 921351 53 2 

www.arnoldzable.com

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