Ted Dawe

Old stories exhumed: Ted Dawe on schools and bullies, and truth

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In Ted Dawe’s new novel Answering to the Caul, traumatised young men obliterate the schools that made ‘ordinary kids into evil bastards’. And as Dawe told the Herald last week, his sensational 2012 novel Into the River had its roots in the sex abuse scandal that’s just blown open at Dilworth School. Here, Dawe writes … Read more

Essay: The Ted Dawe Experience – Pervert or Really Good Writer? His Judge Decides

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Bernard Beckett was on the judging panel that awarded the 2013 NZ Post children’s book award to Into the River – the Ted Dawe’ novel which was banned this week by weird Christian sect, the Film and Literature Board of Review. UPDATE: Into the River is no longer banned or even classified at all.  This … Read more