A young adult novel about a dramatic journey that transforms an East Coast boy has taken out this year’s New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards tonight. Ted Dawe’s
Into the River named top read at awards
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Truth the key to White Lies story
An area of New Zealand history that has been swept under the carpet is the subject of a new home-grown movie which releases this week. White Lies, adapted from Whale Rider author Witi Ihimaera’s novella Medicine Woman, is set in a time when new laws prohibited unlicensed healers, making the practise of much Maori medicine illegal.
Mums get royal freebie from Westenra
It’s another screaming delivery for expectant parents. Maybe that’s a bit cruel, but Kiwi mums who give birth on the same day as the Duchess of Cambridge will be given another bundle – an album of lullabies by the New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra.
Quiz and win with Lincoln
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln has just been released on DVD and Bluray and we’re giving you the chance to win your own copy. Take our quiz, and if you score more than 75 per cent you’ll receive a keyword
Miguel inviting lawsuit over NZ fan’s injury
The New Zealand woman who was kicked by Miguel during a Billboard Music Awards performance continues to suffer cognitive difficulties and has yet to receive any assistance from the R&B singer nearly a month after the incident, her attorney said.
Witi Ihimaera’s charmed life
Witi Ihimaera is charming, possibly even to the people who were very snarky about his astounding plagiarism in The Trowenna Sea. That was 2009
New Zealand Dance Company ready for launch
Until the formation of the Auckland-based The New Zealand Dance Company two years ago, there was only one national dance company – the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Coffey returns to New Zealand’s Got Talent
Tamati Coffey will return as host of New Zealand’s Got Talent next month.
Judge’s facts become work of blockbusting fiction
A district court judge who lectures on international art crime has found his work in the most unexpected place – the pages of Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster. Hamilton-based Judge Arthur Tompkins, who each New Zealand winter teaches a course on art crime during war in a small town north of Rome, was stunned to find The Da Vinci Code author had lifted a passage of his writing for use in his latest New York Times bestseller, Inferno.
Dougal Stevenson: The voice of authority
Jane Bowron of the Dominion Post once wrote of Dougal Stevenson: “His voice is authoritative. If there is an end-of-the-world broadcast kept in readiness for the final moments on Earth, I hope TVNZ has chosen Dougal to announce it.” The quote raises a hearty laugh from the man who did, indeed, become a voice of authority for a generation of Kiwi TV news viewers until the 1980s – so much so that Stevenson was an obvious choice to co-host I Was There, a Heartland TV series that reviews many of New Zealand history’s defining moments in four decades since the 1960s