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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.
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.
In 1976 she was awarded a grant by the Maori Purposes Board for a creative writing project in Māori; in 1977 she was awarded a further grant for this work. [2] As one of the founders of the Te Reo Māori Society she campaigned for Māori to be taught in schools. [2] She was head of Māori Studies at Whangaroa College from 1980 to 1982. [1]
New Zealand's most famous and influential writer in these years was the short-story writer Katherine Mansfield, who left New Zealand in 1908 and became one of the founders of literary modernism. She published three collections of stories in her lifetime: In a German Pension (1911), Bliss and Other Stories (1920) and The Garden Party and Other ...
Like so many other women writers she is a puzzling gap." [4] Her poems are also included in Puna Wai Korero: An Anthology of Maori Poetry in English (2014, edited by Robert Sullivan and Reina Whaitiri), [7] Te Ao Marama (1992, edited by Witi Ihimaera), [8] and Countless Signs: The New Zealand Landscape in Literature (1986, edited by Trudie ...
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.
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James George (born 1962) is a New Zealand novelist, short story writer and creative writing lecturer. George has published three novels and several short stories, and lectures on creative writing at Auckland University of Technology .