Marlborough Book Festival - Anne Kennedy

A Life Well Written - Anne Kennedy in conversation with Naomi Arnold.

Anne Kennedy’s literary endeavours encompass poetry, novels, novellas and screen plays. She discusses her writing life and works with journalist Naomi Arnold.

She has twice won the country’s top award for poetry, her novel The Last Days of the National Costume was shortlisted for the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2014 and her latest novel, The Ice Shelf, was longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Anne has held several fellowships including at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, where she taught creative writing for a number of years.