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The Christchurch
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Author Lynley Hood continued
to insist yesterday that thousands of CD-Roms containing incorrect
biographical information about her should be destroyed. But she rejected claims
that she had threatened to take legal action against Creative New Zealand,
which is responsible for the error. Hood last week wrote to
the Government agency asking for the 2000 CDs about New Zealand writers -
which wrongly stated her doctorate from the University of Otago was honorary
rather than an examined degree - to be destroyed and new versions made and
redistributed. As a result, Creative
NZ destroyed hundreds of CD-Roms and asked writers who had received them to
destroy their copies. But Hood's request has
come under fire from fellow authors who in a Sunday newspaper were quoted as
calling the author of A City Possessed - an analysis of the Christchurch
civic creche child abuse case - paranoid and vain. Hood, however, said the
incorrect information could seriously damage her reputation. The CDs were to be used
to promote New Zealand literature overseas, particularly at the London Book
Fair this month. "Those CDs are
going to be around for a long time and not only does the mistake take away my
qualification, it's made it into a liability. "If you've got an
honorary doctorate and use the title, you're a joke. I can't afford for that
to happen," she said. |
