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Writers of Māori descent, some of whose writings are related to Māori culture. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:New Zealand writers . It includes New Zealand writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Blank was one of a small group of Māori writers writing in English during the 1950s, and one of New Zealand's first bilingual poets. [9] Her short stories often dealt with aspects of Māori life and culture. [10] She was a member of the Maori Artists and Writers Society. [5] She said of her two languages: [8]
Margaret Rose Orbell CNZM (17 July 1935 – 31 July 2006) was a New Zealand author, editor and academic. She was an associate professor of Māori at the University of Canterbury from 1976 to 1994.
The first private literary award was the biennial Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award, a short-story competition organised by the New Zealand Women Writers' Society and funded by the Bank of New Zealand, which became available in 1959; [91] [92] this award ran until 2015. [93]
In 2006 George toured France with eleven other New Zealand writers as part of Les Belles Étrangères , a French literary festival. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 2007 he held the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship , which included a $40,000 grant allowing him to write full-time for the year.
Bruce Richard Stewart (5 August 1936 – 28 June 2017) was a New Zealand fiction writer and dramatist of Ngāti Raukawa Te Arawa descent. Stewart's work often expresses the anger, the confused loyalties, and the spiritual aspirations of late-twentieth-century Māori.
Awarded biennially by the New Zealand Society of Authors to writers of poetry and imaginative fiction. Poetry Fiction 2008 2016 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize: Awarded annually by the New Zealand Society of Authors for new writing with a "unique and original vision", in memory of author Laura Solomon. [41] General writing 2020 Extant
[24] [25] She was the 2014 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence [26] and in the same year she took part in Roadwords, a literary tour of southern South Island towns, with three other writers. [27] [28] In 2016, she was awarded the 2016 NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship. [29] In 2022, Tina Makereti's Lumpectomy won the Landfall Essay ...