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Roosters I Have Known

Roosters I Have Known( )
Author: Braunias, Steve
ISBN:978-0-9582750-5-7
Publication Date:Apr 2008
Publisher:Awa Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.95
Book Description:

Well crafted and piercingly insightful, this collection of Steve Braunias's 2007 interviews of New Zealand's famous and infamous--both publicity-seekers and those desperate to hide from the spotlight--is a humorous and biting survey of the national psyche. Ranging from the disturbingly naïve to the gloriously vain, from food critics to politicians, these profiles are uniquely New Zealand focused.

Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):11.1 x 18.1 x 1.7 cm
Book Weight:0.168 Kilograms
Author Biography
Braunias, Steve (Author)


Steve Braunias was born in New Zealand in 1960. He is an award winning New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor. He has 30 national awards for writing, including the 2009 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Literary fellowship, the 2010 CLL Non-Fiction Award, and the supreme award as the 2006 Qantas Fellowship at the New Zealand Qantas Media Award. He has also won awards as a sports writer, food writer, and humourist.

Braunias has worked as editor of Capital Times, feature writer at Metro magazine, deputy editor of the NZ Listenerand senior writer at the Sunday Star Times. He is the author of several books and has also written for satirical TV series Eating Media Lunch and The Unauthorised History of New Zealand. He will be at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival in 2015. He is the recipient of one of the two Nigel Cox Awards given out over the Auckland Writers Festival 2015.

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