About the book
The celebrated Italian writer Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities explores the intersection of reality and imagination through 11 startling themes, from ‘Cities and Desire’ to ‘Trading Cities’ to ‘Cities and the Dead’. A hundred years after his birth, 11 emerging writers from Aotearoa have each taken a city from their own country and written a short story that pays tribute to Calvino’s work while addressing the themes that besiege cities in the twenty-first century.
Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor – Kirikiriroa Hamilton
Russell Boey – Ōtautahi Christchurch
Dinithi Nelum Bowatte – Te Papaioea Palmerston North
Jack Remiel Cottrell – Ōtepoti Dunedin
Erin Donohue – Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Madison Hamill – Ōtepoti Dunedin
Melanie Kwang – Ōtautahi Christchurch
Marlon Moala-Knox – Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Nkhaya Paulsen-More – Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
William Pigott – Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Elsie Uini – Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
