Witi ihimaera biography definition

Nationality: New Zealander.

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Born: Gisborne, 7 February Family: Married Jane Cleghorn in Nights in the Gardens of Spain. Auckland, Secker and Warburg, The Dream Swimmer. Auckland and New York , Penguin, Auckland, Viking, ; New York , Viking, Wellington, Friends of the Turnbull Library, Editor, with D. Auckland, Heinemann, Auckland, Auckland University Press, There are two cultural landscapes in my country, the Maori and the Pakeha European , and although all people, including Maori, inhabit the Pakeha landscape, very few know the Maori one.

It is important to both Maori and Pakeha that they realize their dual cultural heritage, and that is why I began to write. Not to become the first Maori novelist but to render my people into words as honestly and as candidly as I could; to present a picture of Maoritanga which is our word for the way we feel and are, in the hope that our values will be maintained.

I like to think that I write with both love — aroha — and anger in the hope that the values of Maori life will never be lost.