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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.
Witi Ihimaera, Maori author whose novels and short stories explore the clash between Maori and Pakeha (white, European-derived) cultural values in his native New Zealand. His works included Tangi, Whanau, The Matriarch, The Dream Swimmer, The Whale Rider, Nights in the Gardens of Spain, and Sky Dancer.
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Ihimaera, Witi (Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler) (1944 – ), novelist, short story writer, anthologist and librettist, was born in Gisborne. He has the distinction of being the first Māori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel.
Fiction, Memoir. edit data. Witi Ihimaera is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand, perhaps the best-known Māori writer today. He is internationally famous for The Whale Rider. Ihimaera lives in New Zealand and is of Māori descent and Anglo-Saxon descent through his father, Tom.
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Three-time winner of the Wattie/Montana Book of the Year award, Katherine Mansfield fellow and playwright Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealand’s most prolific and accomplished writers. Witi’s first novel, Tangi, won the Wattie Book of the...
1 mar 2021 · Home. Kōrero. Interview with Witi Ihimaera. Embedded content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM4tV4i-vSo. "I’ve always been the same, but it’s the world that’s changed." Speaker. Witi Ihimaera. How have you changed since you were the first Māori novelist published in the 1970s?
10 set 2023 · Witi Ihimaera: An icon and an inspiration. Nicole Titihuia Hawkins. Guest writer. Made possible by. (Image: Archi Banal) This year marks 50 years since Witi Ihimaera’s novel Tangi was...
