A Life in Crime: Ngaio Marsh

Wed 4 May 2022

Queensland Terrace, level 2, State Library

Country of Focus / Main Festival

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#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Ngaio Marsh was one of the four “Queens of Crime”. Writing during the genre’s Golden Age, Ngaio Marsh both defined and subverted the conventions of crime writing. J.P. Pomare, himself winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award, will reflect on her writing, its impact and legacy.

J.P. Pomare
Chair: Mirandi Riwoe

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J.P. Pomare

J.P. Pomare is an award-winning writer whose work has been widely published. His debut novel, Call Me Evie, was critically acclaimed and won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel. Pomare's novels In The Clearing and The Last Guests were critically acclaimed bestsellers, while his novel Tell Me Lies was a #1 Audible bestseller and was shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel and the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction. The Wrong Woman is his fifth book.

He was born in New Zealand and resides in Melbourne with his wife and daughter.

Mirandi Riwoe

Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Sunbirds. Her novel, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, won the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Queensland Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her short fiction and novellas can be found in the collection The Burnished Sun. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).