The new book – Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy – was written by activist and journalist Supriya Vani, and writer Carl A. Harte, based on “Vani’s exclusive interviews with Ardern”, according to its seller, Simon & Schuster. Ardern said she was approached in 2019 and “told the author was writing a book on women and political leadership”. Harte denied the claim she was misled, saying Ardern’s office was later made aware the book’s framing had changed to become a biography. “Prime Minister Ardern was, however, not misled, because at the time of the interview, we had no intention of writing a biography on her alone,” he said. The book’s claims of exclusive interviews with the prime minister raised some eyebrows in New Zealand, because Ardern does not typically grant interviews to biographers.

Source: The Guardian June 15, 2021 04:07 UTC