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Maka tiko bum . . . I want a game of cards . . . . A pack of cards was found. The old ladies sat around the bed, playing. Everybody else decided to play cards too, to keep Nanny company. The men played poker in the kitchen and sitting room. The kids played snap in the other bedrooms.
Ihimaera-Smiler, Witi Tame.– Scrittore neozelandese meglio noto come Witi Ihimaera (n. Gisborne 1944). Primo scrittore Maori ad aver pubblicato testi narrativi, nelle sue opere ha analizzato la complessità dei rapporti tra società native e neozelandesi di origine europea.
Witi Ihimaera. Witi Ihimaera è nato a Gisborne, Nuova Zelanda, nel 1944. Primo autore maori a pubblicare sia una raccolta di racconti, Pounamu Pounamu (1972), sia un romanzo, Tangi (1973), nella sua lunga carriera ha scritto anche per il teatro e per il cinema.
The Whale Rider is a 1987 novel by New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. In 2002 it was adapted into a film, Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro. Plot Carving of Paikea at Whangara's marae. Set in the 1980s in Whangara, a Māori community on the eastern edge of New Zealand's North Island, the novel is a retelling of the myth of Paikea.
Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau-a-Kai, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe) has had careers in literature, diplomacy and academia. He was Aotearoa New Zealand’s first Māori novelist, with his novel Tangi (1973), and works as editor, essayist, filmmaker, playwright and critic. His latest book is Navigating the Stars (2020). He ...
7 mag 2019 · Not only was I wrong, but this assumption betrayed my Eurocentric misunderstanding of te ao Maori (the Maori world). Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka say in their introduction that there is no separation of the "real from the imagined, rational from the irrational, or what can be believed in and what cannot". "Maori do not make those distinctions".
Witi Ihimaera was also honoured with the premiere Māori arts award Te Tohutiketike a Te Waka Toi at the 2009 Creative New Zealand Te Waka Toi Awards. Ihimaera joined a luminary list of past recipients of Te Tohutiketike a Te Waka Toi including Sir Howard Morrison, Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi and the late renowned master carver Pakariki Harrison and esteemed weaver Diggeress Te Kanawa.
