Witi Ihimaera
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New Zealand writer
Why Is Witi Ihimaera Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler 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. He was the first Māori writer to publish a collection of short stories, with Pounamu, Pounamu , and the first to publish a novel, with Tangi . After his early works he took a ten-year break from writing, during which he focused on editing an anthology of Māori writing in English.
Witi Ihimaera's Published Works
Published Works
- New Zealand (1964) (112)
- The Whale Rider (2002) (41)
- The New Net Goes Fishing (1983) (22)
- Growing up Māori (1998) (19)
- The Dream Swimmer (1997) (19)
- Dear Miss Mansfield: a tribute to Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1990) (11)
- Where's Waari?: A history of the Maori through the short story (2000) (9)
- The Uncle's Story (2000) (8)
- Nights in the Gardens of Spain (1995) (7)
- Bulibasha King Of The Gypsies (1994) (6)
- The Rope of Man (2005) (5)
- Into the World of Light: An Anthology of Maori Writing (1983) (5)
- Mataora : the living face : contemporary Maori art (1996) (4)
- Ihimaera : his best stories (2003) (4)
- Why I write (1975) (3)
- This Magnificent Accident: An Interview with Witi Ihimaera (2004) (3)
- Kingfisher come home: The complete Maori stories (1995) (2)
- Woman Far Walking (2000) (2)
- The State of the Nation’s Narratives (2013) (1)
- Waiting for La Petite Anglaise (2013) (0)
- Writing in Aotearoa right now: a bricolage - Ten New Zealand writers respond to an invitation to write about their experience of writing (2013) (0)
- Cultural Deracination and Isolation (2011) (0)
- Te ara o te hau : the path of the wind (1994) (0)
- The pupu pool [sound recording] / by Whiti Ihimaera. (1983) (0)
- Beautiful North Island of New Zealand (1998) (0)
- Te Ao Marama (1996) (0)
- The Long Dark Tea-time of the South (1991) (0)
- Get on the Waka: Best Recent Māori Fiction (2007) (0)
- Te Puāwaitanga o te kōrero : the flowering (1993) (0)
- Debate (1995) (0)
- The whale rider : the international edition (2003) (0)
- New Zealand (1952) (0)
- The State of the Nationâs Narratives (2013) (0)
- Te Whakahuatanga o te ao : reflections of reality (1992) (0)
- Land, sea & sky (1994) (0)
- Ask the posts of the house (2008) (0)
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