In cooperation with the international house for literature Passa Porta, CLIC was delighted to welcome New-Zealand author Paula Morris at VUB in 2016.
On Februari 26th Morris gave a public reading at VUB, entitled "When They Grow Tired of Gazing: The Invisible New Zealander”. The reading was included in the course "Advanced History of Literature in English: Prose" and the doctoral seminar for Postcolonial Readings on "Interrogating the Postcolonial Paradigm". Additionally, she hosted a creative writing workshop on February 22nd at Passa Porta.
Bio
Paula Morris MNZM (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Manuhiri) is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist and editor from New Zealand.
Paula holds degrees from universities in New Zealand, the U.K. and the US, including a D.Phil from the University of York and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature and Wharerangi, the Māori literature hub.
She has been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships, including the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship; Bellagio (the Rockefeller Foundation) in Italy; Brecht House (Denmark); Passa Porta (Belgium); and the International Writers and Translators’ House (Latvia). She has appeared at festivals in Europe, North America, China, India, South Africa, Australia, the UK and New Zealand.
