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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.
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.
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 ...
Awarded biennially by the New Zealand Society of Authors to writers of poetry and imaginative fiction. Poetry Fiction 2008 2016 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize: Awarded annually by the New Zealand Society of Authors for new writing with a "unique and original vision", in memory of author Laura Solomon. [41] General writing 2020 Extant
Māori society at a local level is particularly visible at the marae. Formerly the central meeting spaces in traditional villages, marae today usually comprise a group of buildings around an open space, that frequently host events such as weddings, funerals, church services and other large gatherings, with traditional protocol and etiquette ...
He grew up in New York City. He attended Columbia University , obtaining his B.A. in 1952 and his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1956. [ 1 ] His dissertation, based on library research he had done in New Zealand in 1954–1955, was a detailed description and analysis of Maori warfare.
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 ...