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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.
Stewart lived mainly in Wellington, where he founded Tapu Te Ranga Marae at Island Bay in the 1970s. [3] This was a centre for debate and education in Māori culture and protocol and for the redevelopment of native bush [4] until destroyed by fire in 2019. Stewart was president of Ngā Puna Waihanga (Maori Writers and Artists Society) in 1982. [5]
A number of literary fellowships are available in New Zealand. These fellowships give writers the opportunity to stay at a particular place with their accommodation and other costs funded. The first fellowship was the Robert Burns Fellowship, set up anonymously (although widely attributed to Charles Brasch) at the University of Otago in 1958.
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell ONZM (25 June 1925 – 16 August 2009) was a poet, playwright, and novelist. Born in the Cook Islands, Campbell was the son of a Cook Island Māori mother and a Pākehā father, who both died when he was young, leading to him growing up in a New Zealand orphanage.
In 2014, she won a legal battle against the New Zealand Government, which had tried to compulsorily acquire land at Hongoeka Bay under the Public Works Act in order to build an expressway. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] The court decided that the land, which was the last remaining part of Wi Parata's landholdings held by his descendants, should be protected as a ...
Ruth Park (1917–2010), novelist and children's, non-fiction and radio writer; Lorae Parry (born 1955), playwright and actor; Lawrence Patchett (living), novelist and short story writer; Alistair Paterson (born 1929), poet, writer and literary editor; Justin Paton (born 1972), writer, art critic and curator; Jenny Pattrick (born 1936), novelist
She was one of the subjects of a 2021 University of Auckland doctoral thesis by Robin Peters, titled Papatuanuku's Progeny: Foremothers of Maori Women's Poetry Written in English, about the lives and works of Māori women poets. [2] [10] Peters was able to find 23 unpublished poems by Patuawa-Nathan, which are included in the appendix to her ...
Sturm was born on 17 May 1927 in Ōpunake, Taranaki, New Zealand.Her birth name was Te Kare Papuni. Her father, John Raymond Papuni, was part of the Whakatōhea iwi from Ōpōtiki in the Bay of Plenty region, and her mother, Mary Kingsley Harrison, was the daughter of Moewaka Tautokai, an adopted daughter of Taranaki chief Wiremu Kingi Moki Te Matakatea, and Te Whare Matangi Harrison, a nephew ...