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The words of "Cleanse Me" are based on Psalm 139:23-24 and Psalm 51:2; it is set to the Maori folk tune "Po Ata Rau" (translated as "Now Is the Hour"). "Cleanse Me" was written in 1936 when Orr was at an Easter revival meeting in Ngāruawāhia , New Zealand, where he heard and was enchanted by the Maori Song of Farewell. [ 9 ] "
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]
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 ...
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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.
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.
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