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Fool's Paradise

Fool's Paradise( )
Author: Braunias, Steve
ISBN:978-1-86941-483-2
Publication Date:Jan 2001
Publisher:Random House New Zealand
Book Format:Paperback
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Book Description:

Fool's Paradise takes you back to New Zealand the way it used to be and the way it often still is. Steve Braunias, the award-winning deputy editor of the New Zealand Listener, writes about places and things in New Zealand in a fresh, lyrical way. He can be funny, sad, serious, cruel and a complete jackass - and sometimes all of those in one piece. Some of his recurrent topics are tearooms, mangroves, small New Zealand towns and death.Fool's Paradise collects together a selection of...
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Pages:190
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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