In her 2025 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, Charlotte Grimshaw reports from the frontlines of fiction and memoir, discuss veracity, integrity and clarity in a so-called “post-truth world,” and shares ideas she’s formed about authenticity after a whole life lived in fiction.

Grimshaw describes her ongoing quest for answers, including a recent personal discovery of material in the Turnbull Library archive that shattered some final illusions, and fuelled her determination to go on expressing ideas and writing accurate human stories, no matter what.

Presented in partnership with New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc, and National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.

Listen to Charlotte Grimshaw’s 2025 NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture HERE

Find out more about the Janet Frame Memorial Lecture series and listen to previous speakers. HERE