There were eleven pavilions and the New Zealand pavilion had stars and lakes-while you were sleeping theme.
Penguin and Random House featured at the fair.
Robert met Richard Taylor from Weta workshop as he was in Germany to promote The Hobbit.
Authors - Nalini Singh, Bill Manhire, Joy Cowley, Witi Ihimaera, Emily Perkins,Courtney Meredith, Catherine Robertson.
Frankfurt Book fair is the holy grail of publishing.
Kate Degoldi, Joe Harawira, Hamish Clayton, Graham Beattie, Jan Kemp.
New Zealand took the Wellington walk poems' over to Frankfurt which featured Patricia Grace, Bill Manhire writing.
Robert's book 'Star Waka' sold out and I loved how Robert said proudly how his arm nearly fell off signing his book.
Annabel Langbein was a huge New Zealand celebrity chef which featured at the fair.
Robert read his poetry on a Berlin boat and said New Zealand was well represented.
We saw some clips of different writers speaking and some highlights.
The Maori haka, kapa haka and Samoan ta tou
My tutor mentioned he had hung out with Chad Taylor who is a novelist.
I have read his collection of short stories: The Man Who wasn,t feeling himself. It is very modern and edgy writing and I loved these tales.
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