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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.
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.
In 2019 she joined Pantograph Punch as a staff writer. [23] In 2022 she also worked as an astrologist for Metro magazine. [1] [24] She has previously worked at Toi Māori Aotearoa. [4] She has been described by The New York Times as an "it girl" and style icon. [3] In 2021 she appeared in the music video for Lorde's single Solar Power.
The Dominion Post, by contrast, called it "an easy read but derivative", in a review which Fiona Kidman called "half-baked ramblings". [ 7 ] [ 8 ] George's third novel, Ocean Roads (2006) was shortlisted for the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the south-east Asia and south Pacific region, and shortlisted for the fiction prize at the 2007 ...
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]
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]
Writer Rachel Nunns said these early stories "inform readers at an emotional, imaginative level with the sense of what it means to be a Maori". [13] Grace's first novel, Mutuwhenua: The Moon Sleeps (1978), was about the relationship of a Māori woman and Pākehā man and their experiences coming from different cultures. It was inspired by the ...