31 August 2025

Kataraina: Becky Manawatu

A voice like no other—Becky Manawatu talks Kataraina, her stunning new follow-up to the award-winning Auē.

Hear from one of our most significant contemporary voices. Kataraina is Becky Manawatu’s (Ngāi Tahu) highly anticipated follow-up to her Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction-winning bestseller Auē.

An evocative novel written with attentive delicacy and steeped in the natural world, Manawatu’s writing is as intensely beautiful as it is diamond hard as she revisits unforgettable characters from Auē. She joins Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) in conversation.

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Hear from one of our most significant contemporary voices. Kataraina is Becky Manawatu’s (Ngāi Tahu) highly anticipated follow-up to her Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction-winning bestseller Auē.

An evocative novel written with attentive delicacy and steeped in the natural world, Manawatu’s writing is as intensely beautiful as it is diamond hard as she revisits unforgettable characters from Auē. She joins Nic Low (Ngāi Tahu) in conversation.

Location
Tūranga, 60 Cathedral Square, Christchurch Central

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