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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