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Michael and Matariki Bennett at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival 

Georgina Godwin speaks with Michael and Matariki Bennett, co-curators of the Auckland Writers Festival, about their Māori heritage, the kōhanga reo movement and addressing sociopolitical issues through art. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Mitchell Kaplan, the founder of Miami Book Fair

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  Harlan Greene at the 2025 Charleston Literary Festival

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  The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: David Szalay

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  Kiran Desai on loneliness, legacy and the curse of rewriting

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  The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 winner: Helen Garner

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  Richard Armitage and the power of storytelling

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  Richard Lloyd Parry and the journeys within stories

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  Olivier Norek on courage, conflict and history

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  Sam Sussman on the possibility of family ties

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  Juhea Kim on stories woven from silence

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  Priyanka Mattoo on the search for home

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  Michael Wolff on chaos, power and America’s reckoning

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  R James Breiding on what small nations teach the world

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  Michelle de Kretser on literature and belonging

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  Iain Sinclair on London, literature and hidden journeys

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  Nick Berg on revolutions, exile and the stories that we inherit