Hagley
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Director - Morrin Rout
Morrin Rout has been producer/ presenter of literary programmes on National Radio and Plains FM for over ten years. During that time, she has interviewed many leading international literary fi gures as well as a significant number of New Zealand’s best known writers. She was involved in the organisation of the Listener Women’s Book Festival, as Literary Programme
Co-ordinator for the Christchurch Arts Festival, as a former Chairperson of the Christchurch Book Festival Trust and as a judge for
the 2007 Montana NZ Book Awards. She is currently one of the Programme
Co-ordinators for the Christchurch Writers Festival and has extensive
contacts with publishers, book sellers and the writing community both
here and overseas. She has also worked for many years as a counsellor
and social worker.
Patron - Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy is New Zealand’s best-loved and most acclaimed children’s writer and her international standing was recognised in 2006 by the Hans Christian Anderson Award. Among her many other awardsare the Order of New Zealand, the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement and the Arts Foundation of NZ Icon Award. She was twice awarded the Carnegie Medal and
her books have been translated into over fifteen different languages.