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From 2019 to 2024 Tibble worked as a publicist at Te Herenga Waka University Press. [22] In 2019 she joined Pantograph Punch as a staff writer. [23] In 2022 she also worked as an astrologist for Metro magazine. [1] [24] She has previously worked at Toi Māori Aotearoa. [4] She has been described by The New York Times as an "it girl" and style ...
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.
Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler DCNZM QSM (/ ˈ w ɪ t i ɪ h i ˈ m aɪ r ə /; born 7 February 1944) is a New Zealand author.Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people were ignored or mischaracterised in literature.
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.
The awards are aimed at New Zealand writers who have made an outstanding contribution to the nation's literary and cultural history. Tuwhare received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from The University of Auckland in 2005. At the time of his death Tuwhare was described as "New Zealand's most distinguished Maori writer"*. [10]
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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". [13] Grace's first novel, Mutuwhenua: The Moon Sleeps (1978), was about the relationship of a Māori woman and Pākehā man and their experiences coming from different cultures. It was inspired by the ...
The Māori theatre group Te Ohu Whakaari involving writers Rowley Habib (Rore Hapipi), Hone Tuwhare, Riwia Brown and Apirana Taylor were part of the early Taki Rua days. [ 11 ] Le Matau (The Fish Hook) was presented at the New Depot in 1984, the first Samoan language play to be performed in New Zealand, by the group Taotahi Ma Uo.