Hamilton Book Month

Creative Arts Centre, Sacred Heart Girls' College

Friday 21 March

4.30pm

 

Elizabeth Knox is one of New Zealand’s leading writers. She is the author of eight previous novels, including The Vintner’s Luck (1999 Deutz Medal for Fiction, 2001 Tasmania Pacific Region Prize) and its sequel The Angel’s Cut, a trilogy of autobiographical essays, The High Jump, and a collection of personal essays, The Love School. The second part of her Dreamhunter Duet, Dreamquake, won an American Library Association Michael L. Printz Honor Award for Young Adult Literature in 2008, and her third novel for young adults, Mortal Fire, was published in June 2013.

Elizabeth Knox was made an Arts Foundation Laureate in 2000 and an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in 2002. She lives in Wellington with her husband and son.

 

Author of the Twilight series Stephanie Meyer said Elizabeth Knox's Dreamhunter Duet was "unique and amazing... like nothing else I've ever read."

 

Her most recent books are Wake and Mortal Fire, published in 2013.

 

At this event Elizabeth will talk a little about Mortal Fire, a little more about Wake (and the biographical things behind both books) and do a reading.

 

You can read more about Elizabeth at http://www.elizabethknox.com/

 

Elizabeth's event is supported by the Waikato Children's Literature Association and Books For Kids.