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The Ngaio Marsh Awards, in association with Dunedin Public Libraries, invites local booklovers to a thrilling evening featuring four outstanding Aotearoa storytellers. Award-winning YA author Ella West will chair Ngaio Marsh Award winning novelists Jacqueline Bublitz and Liam McIlvanney, and 'New Zealand's modern-day Queen of Crime' Vanda Symon in a thrilling discussion about the art and craft of storytelling, creating memorable characters, the importance of setting, and what drew each of them to crime and mystery writing.
WHEN: Thursday, 27 March 2025
WHERE: 4th Floor, Dunedin City Library, Moray Place
WHEN: 6pm
ENTRY: free, but please RSVP to Dunedin City Library by phone (03) 474 3690 or email [email protected]
Ella West is a multi-award winning YA thriller writer who lives with her family on a rural property at Janefield near Dunedin, where Ella writes full time when she isn’t chasing sheep and cattle on the farm. Her thriller NIGHT VISION won the 2015 Young Adult section of the LIANZA Awards and was the Young Adult Children’s Choice winner in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. She is also the author of the Thieves series, and standalone YA mystery thriller RAIN FALL.
Jacqueline 'Rock' Bublitz is a writer, feminist and arachnophobe, who after many years abroad now lives on the west coast of the North Island. She wrote her debut novel BEFORE YOU KNEW MY NAME after spending a summer in New York; it went on to make history by winning both Best First Novel and Best Novel at the 2022 Ngaios, along with several international accolades including being shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Her new feminist thriller is LEAVE THE GIRLS BEHIND.
Liam McIlvanney is the Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies chair at the University of Otago, where he has taught Scottish literature, culture and history, Irish-Scottish literary connections, and crime fiction over the past decade-plus. His crime novels have won both the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel and the Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. His new psychological thriller, THE GOOD FATHER, will be published in June 2025.
Vanda Symon is an internationally bestselling writer, President of the NZ Society of Authors, and Associate Dean at the University of Otago's Centre for Pacific Health. Starring as 'Darth Vanda' in S1 of The Traitors NZ, her Sam Shephard mysteries have been shortlisted multiples times for the Ngaio Marsh Awards, the CWA Daggers in the UK, and the Barry Awards in the United States, and are currently in development for the screen.
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Dunedin Public Libraries, 230 Moray Pl, Dunedin Central, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand,Dunedin, New Zealand
