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In 2021 Soutar was awarded the Creative New Zealand King Writer's Fellowship worth $100,000 to enable him to complete a historical novel trilogy. [10] The first novel in the trilogy, Kāwai, was published in 2022, and was the best-selling New Zealand fiction novel of the year. [11]
The first edition was edited by the journalist and historian Guy Scholefield in association with Emil Schwabe. This was the first of a series of publications containing biographies compiled and edited by Scholefield, and it formed the basis for his later book Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, published in two volumes in 1940.
Potiki is a novel by New Zealand author Patricia Grace.First published in 1986, the book is a significant work in contemporary Māori literature, and explores themes of cultural identity, land rights, and the impacts of urban development on indigenous communities.
Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly the New Zealand Book Council) is a not-for-profit organisation that presents a wide range of programmes to promote books and reading in New Zealand. It was established in 1972 and its programmes have included supporting writers' visits to schools and enabling writers to travel to different areas of New Zealand.
Crump was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal in 1990, [10] and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1994 New Year Honours, for services to literature and the community. [11] Crump was featured on a New Zealand $1.00 postage stamp in 1995 as part of the "Famous New Zealanders" issue.
The New Zealand musician Shayne Carter described Braunias, his writing style and influences in his 2019 autobiography Dead People I Have Known: "He’s my favourite journalist in New Zealand. He’s into Brian Granville and Graham Greene , and when his columns first appeared he called people out in a way no other New Zealand journalist was ...
Patricia Frances Grace DCNZM QSO (née Gunson; born 17 August 1937) is a New Zealand writer of novels, short stories, and children's books.She began writing as a young adult, while working as a teacher.
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 ...