AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoLiterary Legacies: Bahrain mourns poet and folk-culture researcher Ali Abdullah Khalifa, whose modern verse drew on the island’s sea heritage and who helped build local publishing and literary institutions. Southern Hemisphere Fiction: The Academy of New Zealand Literature publishes a “Southern Hemisphere Fiction 100” as a response to a Guardian “greatest English-language fiction” list that critics say overlooked major writers from the region. Classic Still Hits: A Dublin library marks 300 years since Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels with an exhibition tracing its instant popularity and lasting cultural punch. Poetry to Song: New Zealand endurance-race founder Robin Judkins turns poems into a full album, I’m A Slut For A Beat, with a launch event at Lyttelton Arts Festival. Publishing & Access: York St John students create the first fully accessible edition of letters between Laurence Sterne and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho, bringing 18th-century voices to modern readers. Book-to-Stage: Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook heads to Bass Hall, adapted for the stage with a framing device tied to Alzheimer’s. Film Adaptation Watch: Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun gets first footage ahead of the trailer, spotlighting Jenna Ortega as an “Artificial Friend” from Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel. Science & Society: Europe moves to loosen rules for some gene-edited crops, while experts warn policy shifts could ripple into New Zealand’s gene-tech debate.
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