The country's latest Fulbright recipient has come a long way since living on the street when she was 12.

Inequality means watching people close to you.

New Zealand has become a richer country in the past 30 years.

Your latest play Intimacies is about how technology is warping our lives and relationships - how is it affecting you?

1. Is this new book the most political work you have done?

For acclaimed Kiwi Pacific author Albert Wendt, writing is like breathing.

It is never difficult to find contemporary events that point to the relevance of Titus Andronicus, but Shakespeare's reflections on the extremes of human cruelty are given particular poignancy by the recent murder of a young soldier on a London str

Bill Culbert, New Zealand's artist for the 2013 Venice Biennale.

Did you always think the name Nigel was a bit of a liability?

I feel privileged and honoured. The recurring fear is: Have I wasted my life writing?

The final day of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival was bookended by standing ovations for two of New Zealand's ground-breaking writers of the past 50 years.