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Category

All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

Disciplines in Literature & Letters

All disciplines Literature125 Philosophy87 New Thought21 Theology10 History23 Linguistics1

Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.

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All eras 1st–5th century 6th–14th century 15th–17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century

Countries (4)

All countries Australia5 Fiji1 New Zealand5 Samoa1

5 figures

Kate Sheppard

1848 – 1934

Won the world's first national women's vote in 1893.

New Zealand·Peace · History

Patrick White

1912 – 1990

Voss and the interior epic of the Australian continent.

Australia·LiteratureNobel

Albert Wendt

b. 1939

Founded modern Pacific Island literature in English.

Samoa·Literature

Epeli Hau'ofa

1939 – 2009

'Our Sea of Islands' reframed the Pacific as vast, not small.

Fiji·Literature · Philosophy

Witi Ihimaera

b. 1944

First published Māori novelist; The Whale Rider.

New Zealand·Literature