Damien Wilkins at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  Today I'm joined by one of New Zealand's most admired and quietly original voices,

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  now firmly in the spotlight.

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  He just won the 2025 Occam New Zealand Book Award for Fiction for his novel Delirious,

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  a story that's both sharply funny and profoundly moving.

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  a book about unravelling and reassembling, about connection,

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  family and the slippery business of modern life.

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  I was the international judge for this award and the decision was very quick and utterly unanimous.

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  Over the years, this writer has built a body of work that spans novels,

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  short stories, poetry, essays, song lyrics and scripts.

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  He's also helped shape the next generation of writers as director of the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington,

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  that creative powerhouse where some of New Zealand's finest literary voices have emerged.

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  Damien Wilkins, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you for having me.

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  So we're talking here in Auckland.

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  The award night was a couple of nights ago.

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  It was very dramatic.

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  We'll come to that.

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  I first want to go back and just find out all about you,

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  where you grew up and what kind of world it was.

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