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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.
The first private literary award was the biennial Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award, a short-story competition organised by the New Zealand Women Writers' Society and funded by the Bank of New Zealand, which became available in 1959; [91] [92] this award ran until 2015. [93]
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.
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]
Blank was one of a small group of Māori writers writing in English during the 1950s, and one of New Zealand's first bilingual poets. [9] Her short stories often dealt with aspects of Māori life and culture. [10] She was a member of the Maori Artists and Writers Society. [5] She said of her two languages: [8]
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 ...
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