Auckland Writers & Readers Festival

From City Scene, published on 27 April, 2008

A way with words: Loretta Napoleoni (left), best selling Italian author of Terror Incorporated and Insurgent Iraq, and Anne Enright (right), whose most recent novel, The Gathering, won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, are guests at this year's festival.

Images: Peter Hodsoll (left) and Joe O'Shaughnessy

Our city will host more than 120 writers and thousands of readers during the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, 14 to 18 May at the Aotea Centre. Festival guests include 2007 Man Booker Prize winner Anne Enright, the winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Junot Diaz and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, J M Coetzee.

With an exciting programme of more than 60 sessions during the week - including readings, panel discussions and poetry events - the festival features food for thought for anyone interested in contemporary literature.

For more information, visit www.writersfestival.co.nz or read next week's City Scene.