Name: Des Hunt
Date of birth: 29 December 1941
Place of birth: Palmerston North
Now living in: Matarangi, Coromandel Peninsula
- What is your favourite food?
- Pizza
- Do you have a nickname and if so what is it?
- Dessy
- What was your most embarrassing moment?
- Several – all of them involving trying to get to know girls.
- How do you relax?
- Reading
- Who inspired you when you were little?
- An author named Howard Spring (aged 13 years +)
A teacher who was involved in the rediscovery of the takahe in 1947 (aged 7-12 years) - What were you like at school?
- A nerd - though nobody labelled us that in the 1950's – we were accepted like all other kids.
- What was your favourite/most hated subject at school?
- Favourite: Science
Most hated: English - What was the book you most loved as a child?
- A Golden Book about a penguin who hated the cold and sailed off in a bathtub to the tropics.
- Which person from the past would you most like to meet?
- Isaac Newton
- Who is your favourite author/children's author?
- Maurice Gee
- Why did you want to be a writer?
- To help people understand how special New Zealand nature is.
- Do you have a special place where you write your books?
- I have an office which overlooks the Pacific Ocean.
What's the best thing and worst thing about being a writer?- The best thing is writing. The worst is waiting to see if it is accepted by a publisher.
- What advice would you give to aspiring writers?
- Write and write and write. Then read and reread what you have written.