Film & TV
3 April 2023
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the bestselling novel by New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer Heather Morris is being turned into a six-part television series, Karl Quinn reports for The Sydney Morning Herald.
The production is currently shooting…
Writers | Entertainment Weekly
23 April 2019
After delivering one of last year’s biggest bestsellers with The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Te Awamutu-raised Heather Morris is ready to reveal Cilka’s Journey as a follow-up.
Morris recreated the experiences of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian…
Writers | New York Times (The) | Tehran Times | Times of India (The)
31 January 2019
Recently claiming top spot on The New York Times paperback bestseller list, New Zealand author and screenwriter Heather Morris’ historical novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz has now been published in Persian and is available…
Writers | Telegraph (The)
14 January 2019
The tale of a three-legged donkey has become a surprise Christmas bestseller thanks to a viral video of a grandmother reading it to her grandson. The Wonky Donkey, written by New Zealander Craig Smith,…
Writers | Globe and Mail (The)
6 September 2018
At first, New-Zealand-born Heather Morris hadn’t intended on writing a novel.
When Morris first struck up a friendship with an elderly man named Ludwig Sokolov, she had imagined his incredible story as a screenplay. Sokolov…
Writers | Lancashire Evening Post
25 January 2018
Out of one of the worst periods of human history comes an inspirational story, a beacon of light amidst the dark ruins of the Holocaust. For three years before his death in 2006, Lale…