Witi Ihimaera
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title:
Witi Ihimaera
text:
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 (1972), and the first to publish a novel, with Tangi (1973). After his early works, he took a ten-year break from writing, during which he focused on editing an anthology of Māori writin
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New Zealand writer (born 1944)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera
date created:
2004-01-30T10:44:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T22:59:14Z
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