One Day a Taniwha — an extract
“That was one of the hardest things about Wī entering our lives. I’d had Āniwa all to myself for years. My rock, my person. Now she was someone else’s.” — Tīhema Baker from his new book ‘One Day a Taniwha’.
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Tag: Māori literature
Win tickets to the Auckland Writers Festival
We have three double passes to give away to kaupapa Māori and Pasifika sessions at the Auckland Writers Festival this Friday and Saturday.
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Maybe you’re already living your dream
“It’s taken me a while to figure out that ‘dreams’ are vital. But they are definitely not something that’s separate from ourselves. They don’t have to be written down with a timeframe, or drawn on a vision board. You can leave them to reveal themselves.” — Shelley Burne-Field.
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Finding my way back, over and over
“Not everyone knows their iwi. It’s only recently that my son has started talking about being from Puketeraki. You need to see places to feel like you know them, I reckon.” — Emma Hislop.
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Visible at Verb
“Contemporary Māori stories don’t exist somewhere outside the context of ‘New Zealand’. Regardless of who you are, there is a sliver of yourself to be reflected back in our writing.” — Damien Levi on the multitude of Māori voices at Verb this year.
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Shilo Kino: Writing my way to peace
“I wanted to show what colonisation is like today, because a lot of people seem to think of it as a one-time historical event. But it’s actually an ongoing process that has seeped into our everyday lives — and this applies whether you’re Māori or not.” — Shilo Kino on her new novel All That We Know.
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Qiane Matata-Sipu: Our stories have the answers
“The whakaaro I share so staunchly in everything I do is: ‘You are enough. You’re enough as you are, with what you have right now.’ Our stories and mātauranga tell us that.” — Qiane Matata-Sipu.
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‘This being Māori thing ends now’
“My nan… had completely turned her back on being Māori. She was of the opinion that you just had to make it in the Pākehā world, and that speaking Māori and being Māori wasn’t going to get you anywhere in life.” — Stacy Gregg.
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Zion and the Three Cancers
“‘That nurse was really rude,’ I told Jaye as we walked out of the exam room in Auckland Hospital. She rolled her eyes at me impatiently. ‘That’s why I brought you. To see the way people who look like me get treated.’” — Eru Hart.
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Tin canning
The Pikihuia Awards are held every two years to celebrate excellence in Māori writing, both in reo Pākehā and reo Māori. This is the winning reo Māori essay in the non-fiction category, written by Zeb Tamihana Nicklin.
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Robyn Bargh: Inspiring more Māori to write
“Yes, we want people with in-depth mātauranga Māori writing about that knowledge. But we also want people who are struggling with their identity as Māori, or who have just come to it, because those are valid experiences in Aotearoa today.” — Robyn Bargh.
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