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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.
[5] [8] 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]
Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler DCNZM QSM (/ ˈ w ɪ t i ɪ h i ˈ m aɪ r ə /; born 7 February 1944) is a New Zealand author.Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people were ignored or mischaracterised in literature.
The awards are aimed at New Zealand writers who have made an outstanding contribution to the nation's literary and cultural history. Tuwhare received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from The University of Auckland in 2005. At the time of his death Tuwhare was described as "New Zealand's most distinguished Maori writer"*. [10]
In 2021 she won the Surrey-Hotel writers residency [10] and appeared in the VERB Festival in Wellington, [11] writing for the series Art History is a Mother. [12] She has run guest workshops for Prospect Park Productions. [13]
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.
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At the New Zealand Historical Association's conference in 2017, O'Malley was named as the winner of the Mary Boyd Prize for his article "Recording the Incident with a Monument": The Waikato War in Historical Memory [99] which charted "changing perceptions of the Waikato War in national memory and consciousness." [100] [101]