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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.
Bruce Richard Stewart (5 August 1936 – 28 June 2017) was a New Zealand fiction writer and dramatist of Ngāti Raukawa Te Arawa descent. Stewart's work often expresses the anger, the confused loyalties, and the spiritual aspirations of late-twentieth-century Māori.
In 2006 George toured France with eleven other New Zealand writers as part of Les Belles Étrangères , a French literary festival. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 2007 he held the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship , which included a $40,000 grant allowing him to write full-time for the year.
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 ...
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.
The bill sparked huge protests. Tens of thousands of New Zealanders gathered outside the parliament in one of the country’s largest demonstrations to oppose the Treaty Principles Bill on 19 ...
A. R. D. Fairburn (1904–1957); Fiona Farrell (born 1947); Joan Fleming (born 1984); Gary Forrester (born 1946); Janet Frame (1924–2004); Ruth France (1913–1968); Anne French (born 1956)