beckett coverIf you went to a high school in Welly dur­ing the last couple’o dec­ades, you may have been taught by Bern­ard Beck­ett, and if you were a smart, artic­u­late stu­dent, you might have got to act­ively par­ti­cip­ate in his classes (too bad if you wer­en’t). Or per­haps you’re one of the many people who like his award-win­ning books. Well we’ve got the event for you tomor­row!

vicbooks in asso­ci­ation with Text Pub­lish­ing present: Bern­ard Beck­ett in con­ver­sa­tion with Kate De Goldi
Sat­urday 21st May, 2pm, Hunter Com­mon Room, Level 2, Hunter Build­ing, Kel­burn Cam­pus, Vic­tor­ia Uni­ver­sity of Wel­ling­ton, Kel­burn Parade

This is a free event, but please let us know if you will be attend­ing: RSVPs to karen.mcleod@vicbooks.co.nz

Bern­ard Beck­ett is one of New Zealand’s most out­stand­ing writers. He has pub­lished many books, and has won numer­ous awards in the course of his career. In 2006 Bern­ard was awar­ded a New Zea­l­and Sci­ence, Math­em­at­ics and Tech­no­logy Teach­er Fel­low­ship where he worked on a pro­ject examin­ing DNA muta­tions. This new dir­ec­tion led to the pub­lic­a­tion of Gen­es­is, win­ner of the 2010 Prix Sor­cières, the 2007 Esth­er Glen Award and the Young Adult Fic­tion Cat­egory at the 2007 NZ Post Book Awards. August is Bernard’s tenth book.

While you’re at the vic books web­site, if you’re a stu­dent at Vic, don’t for­get to enter Scrawl, their writ­ing con­test.