‘From Chaos to Craft’ Two authors, two worlds, one creative process

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Event Description: ‘From Chaos to Craft’ Two authors, two worlds, one creative process

A rare opportunity to hear two critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning writers – Anuradha Roy from India and Catherine Chidgey from New Zealand -- talk about the craft of writing and their approach to the creative process.

Moderated by New Zealand Deputy High Commissioner Matthew Ayers

About the authors:

CATHERINE CHIDGEY, as Radio New Zealand summed up, is “one of New Zealand’s greatest living writers”. She is the only writer to have won New Zealand’s most prestigious literary award, the Acorn Prize for Fiction, twice. Her novel 'Remote Sympathy' was longlisted for the Women’s Prize in the UK and shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

Her debut 'In a Fishbone Church' won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South East Asia/South Pacific), as well as the Betty Trask Award in the UK. It was longlisted for the Orange Prize.

Her other honours include the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize. Her forthcoming novel 'The Book of Guilt' is a compelling work of dystopian fiction. It will be published by five different English-language publishers in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Catherine founded the Sargeson Prize in 2019 for short stories in recognition of Frank Sargeson’s influence on New Zealand literature.

She is currently Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

ANURADHA ROY is a writer and potter, and author of five novels. Her first work of non-fiction, 'The Himalaya in a Small House', will be published later this year.

Roy's first novel, 'An Atlas of Impossible Longing', was translated into sixteen languages. 'Sleeping on Jupiter', her third novel, won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. 'All the Lives We Never Lived' won the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award, one of India's highest literary honours, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.

Roy has been a visiting speaker at Cornell and Cordoba Universities, a Hawthornden Writing Fellow at Casa Ecco, Italy, and writer-in-residence at St-Nazaire, France. She has won various other residencies, awards and honours.

Her non-fiction has been published in magazines and books in India and abroad. She lives in Ranikhet, where she is a graphic designer at Permanent Black, a press she runs with her partner, Rukun Advani, and three dogs.

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