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Biography. Patricia Grace was born in Wellington in 1937. She is of Maori descent. She trained as a teacher. She started to seek out New Zealand fiction available before producing her first collection, the first short story collection by a Maori woman writer. She has continued to write from the Maori perspective.
Potiki is a novel by New Zealand author Patricia Grace. First published in 1986, the book is a significant work in contemporary Māori literature, and explores themes of cultural identity, land rights, and the impacts of urban development on indigenous communities. It was critically and commercially successful, and received the New Zealand Book ...
4 mag 2021 · 4.42. 186 ratings28 reviews. With photographs and quotes from her many, hugely loved books, Patricia Grace begins with her grandparents and parents and takes us through her childhood, her education, marriage and up to the present day in this touching and self-deprecating story of her life, the life of a writer, of a Maori woman and of a teacher.
4 mag 2021 · Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand’s most prominent and celebrated Maori fiction authors and a figurehead of modern New Zealand literature. She garnered initial acclaim in the 1970s with her collection of short stories entitled Waiariki (1975) — the first published book by a Maori woman in New Zealand.
12 feb 2024 · Patricia Grace, number one. Patricia Grace portrait by the legendary Sal Criscillo. It takes something special and momentous for a book of short stories to get anywhere near the top of the bestseller chart. It nearly happened in 2021, when Airini Beautrais won the Acorn fiction prize at the Ockham national book awards for her book of stories ...
Patricia GraceBORN: 1937, Wellington, New ZealandNATIONALITY: New ZealanderGENRE: Fiction, short fiction, children's fictionMAJOR WORKS:Waiariki (1975)The Dream Sleepers and Other Stories (1980)Potiki (1986)Baby No-Eye (1999) Source for information on Grace, Patricia: Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature dictionary.
Grace Patricia Kelly, nota come Principessa Grace o anche come Grace di Monaco ( Filadelfia, 12 novembre 1929 – Monaco, 14 settembre 1982 ), è stata un' attrice, modella e principessa statunitense naturalizzata monegasca . Celebre star hollywoodiana, vinse l' Oscar alla miglior attrice per la pellicola La ragazza di campagna nel 1955.
