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Arapera Hineira Blank (née Kaa; 7 June 1932 – 30 July 2002) was a New Zealand poet, short-story writer and teacher. She wrote in both te reo Māori and English, and was one of the first Māori writers to be published in English. Her work focussed on aspects of Māori life and the life of women.
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.
The Verb festival in Wellington in 2019 held a panel event where three out of five panellists were writers of Chinese heritage, Rosabel Tan, Gregory Kan and Chen Chen; writer Nina Mingya Powles said she thought this was the first time that had happened in New Zealand and that this felt like a "groundbreaking moment" for Chinese New Zealand writers.
In 1959 a special issue was published focussing on Māori writers. [1] In 1970, Margaret Orbell (who had been editor of the magazine between 1962 and 1966) published an anthology, Contemporary Maori Writing. A review in The Press commented that many of the writers' work had first been published in Te Ao Hou. [9]
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 English and Maori versions of the treaty contain key differences, complicating its application and interpretation, some observers say. To address this, over the last 50 years, lawmakers ...
Grace's first published book, Waiariki (1975), was the first collection of short stories to be published by a female Māori writer, and its ten stories show the diversity of Māori life and culture. [1] 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 ...
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.