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2026 Festival: Oct 18–25

Damien Wilkins

New Zealand

DAMIEN WILKINS is the author of fourteen books, including Delirious, which won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. He is Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters Te Pūtahi Tui Auaha o Te Ao at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

2026 Reading List: