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“Looking back I see how fiercely stubborn she was, this 20-something woman who would not let go or go home, even when all signs were pointing to disaster.” — Tina Makereti.
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Tag: Māori writer
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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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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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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Home and harakeke flowers
“How could I have forgotten the harakeke flowers? I had looked at them every summer, my whole life. But I hadn’t remembered them at all.” — Lauren Keenan.
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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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‘Cousins’ — an extract from the book
“She’d been late home and had been sent into the bathroom to bare her bottom for the cane. After the caning she’d peed, so the stick had come hitting down again For, Being, A, Dirty, Girl, Now, Clean, Up, This, Mess.” — From ‘Cousins’, by Patricia Grace.
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Witi Ihimaera: A writer’s memoir
“You must continue your education, son, I don’t want you to be a servant to anyone, man or woman, Māori or Pākehā. Your father and I didn’t raise you to help us on the farm.”
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