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Hiwa: Contemporary Maori Short Stories Kindle Edition

by Paula Morris (Editor), Darryn Joseph (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners – Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin – to emerging voices like Shelley Burne-Field, Jack Remiel Cottrell, Anthony Lapwood and Colleen Maria Lenihan.A showcase of contemporary talent, Hiwa includes biographical introductions for each writer' s work, and explores the range of styles and subjects in the flourishing world of Maori fiction.Named for Hiwa-i-te-rangi, the ninth star of Matariki, signifying vigorous growth and dreams of the year ahead, this anthology reveals the flourishing world of Maori writing today, in Aotearoa and beyond.
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Paula Morris MNZM (Ngati Wai, Ngati Manuhiri, Ngati Whatua) is an award-winning novelist, story writer and essayist from Auckland. Darryn Joseph (Ngati Maniapoto) is an associate professor at Massey University, and his quiet, unassuming, yet prolific contribution to reo Maori creativity in Aotearoa is impressive.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CBVMGD8H
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Auckland University Press (August 10, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 10, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3580 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 430 pages
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Paula Morris

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Paula Morris is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand. For ten years, she worked in London and New York, first as a publicist and marketing executive in the record business, and later as a branding consultant and advertising copywriter.

She is the author of three novels for young adults, all published by Scholastic: RUINED, a mystery with a supernatural twist set in New Orleans; DARK SOULS, a novel set in the ancient - and haunted - city of York, England; and UNBROKEN, a sequel to RUINED.

Paula is also the author of award-winning novels for adults, published by Penguin Books in her native New Zealand: QUEEN OF BEAUTY (2002); HIBISCUS COAST (2005); TRENDY BUT CASUAL (2007); and RANGATIRA (2011). RANGATIRA won best book of fiction at the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards.

In 2013 she published her first children's book, HENE AND THE BURNING HARBOUR (Puffin New Zealand).

Paula's short stories have been widely published and broadcast in both New Zealand and the US, and her short story collection, Forbidden Cities (2008), was a regional finalist in the 2009 Commonwealth Prize. She is the editor of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND SHORT STORIES (2008).

Both HIBISCUS COAST and RUINED have been optioned for film.

Paula has degrees from universities in New Zealand, the U.K. and the US, including an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught creative writing at universities in the US and the UK, and is currently Fiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Sheffield.

Visit her web site: www.paula-morris.com, or her blog at trendybutcasual.typepad.com. You can also visit the blog "written" by her character Jane Shore, from the novel TRENDY BUT CASUAL: everybodyneedstwoorthreefriends.com

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