Adrienne Jansen and Liz Grant

Adrienne Jansen has written or collaborated on numerous books about migrant experience in New Zealand. A Winston Churchill Fellow in 1990, Adrienne has also published fiction and poetry. She was born in Wellington in 1947. Liz Grant is a writer and editor with a background in journalism and broadcasting. She is the author of three previous books of non-fiction, and for three years headed the writing team at Te Papa. She was born in Hutton Buscel, Yorkshire, in 1949.

The Monday excerpt: The taxi driver who survived the Khmer Rouge

30 May 2016 by Adrienne Jansen and Liz Grant

In this excerpt from Migrant Journeys: New Zealand taxi drivers tell their stories, Cambodian taxi driver Vanna Seng tells his story – how he came to New Zealand as a refugee when he was 15, after growing up in the terror of the Khmer Rouge. I was seven or eight years old [when Pol Plot … Read more