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BNZ Literary Awards 2013

WIS Programme

Open Book

Feature Title

Who Was That Woman Anyway?: Snapshots of a Lesbian Life

by Aorewa McLeod
Emerging brittle and cynical from a wildly dysfunctional family, Ngaio careers from ice cream factory...

Feature Author

Bob Orr is a poet. His significant participation in the poetry developments of the 1970s and 1980s, combined...

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