Witi Ihimaera
b. 1944 · New Zealand · Literature
First published Māori novelist; The Whale Rider.
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- Albert Wendt
1939 · Literature
Wendt's Pacific literary nationalism opened the space Ihimaera's Māori fiction filled.
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