The 12th Annual
Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture
Knowing Your Place - Catherine Chidgey
Novelist and short story writer, Catherine Chidgey, will address the idea of place in her writing at this lecture. She
will consider the ways in which the real world impinges on the imaginary, and explore some of the tricks a writer can
use to make an imaginary place seem real.
Catherine’s novels have been published to international acclaim. They have been selected as books of the year by Time
Out magazine (London), the New York Times Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. The Herald notes that “Chidgey
could tackle any subject and produce something wonderful”. Her awards include the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award,
the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) Prize, and Best First Book in both the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
(Asia-Pacific region) and the New Zealand Book Awards. In 2003 the Listener voted her best New Zealand novelist under
forty. Catherine is a literary adviser to the Sargeson Trust and teaches creative writing at the University of Waikato. She is
currently completing her fourth novel.
DATEThursday 16 October, 2014 - Free community event, all welcome!
TIME
Lecture begins at 5.30pm. Light refreshments to follow, from 6.30pm
VENUE SG.03, S Block, University of Waikato
PARKING Gate 1, off Knighton Road, Hamilton
Co-hosted
by The Friends of Hamilton Public Library Associationwww.waikato.ac.nz