Albert Wendt
b. 1939 · Samoa · Literature
Founded modern Pacific Island literature in English.
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- Epeli Hau'ofa
1939 – 2009 · Literature, Philosophy
'Our Sea of Islands' argues the Pacific self-representation Wendt began.
- Witi Ihimaera
1944 · Literature
Wendt's Pacific literary nationalism opened the space Ihimaera's Māori fiction filled.
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