88. Helen Garner: How to End a Story

Schedule

Sat May 16 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC13:00

Location

Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre | Auckland, AU

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All Tickets are Mobile Ticket Only. Mobile Tickets are like Print-at-Home tickets but instead of having to print off the tickets yourself, you can just show the barcode on your mobile phone. It is the easiest way to access tickets to your events. For more information visit Ticketmaster.co.nz/mobileticket Child Policy: Children aged under 1 will be permitted free. Provided they do not occupy a seat. From her fiction Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach and The Spare Room, to her non-fiction, The First Stone, This House of Grief and The Mushroom Tapes, Helen Garner has indelibly shaped Australian literature for 50 years and emerged as one of our age's greatest writers. But it is her diaries Garner regards as her favourite. Her collected diaries, How to End a Story became in late 2025 the first diaries ever to win the Baillie Gifford Prize.

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