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Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler DCNZM QSM ( / ˈwɪti ɪhiˈmaɪrə /; born 7 February 1944) is a New Zealand author. Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people were ignored or mischaracterised in literature.
Witi Ihimaera (born February 7, 1944, Waituhi, near Gisborne, New Zealand) is a Māori author whose novels and short stories explore the clash between Māori and Pākehā (white, European-derived) cultural values in his native New Zealand.
Ihimaera, Witi (Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler) (1944 – ), novelist, short story writer, anthologist and librettist, was born in Gisborne. He has the distinction of being the first Māori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel.
Witi Ihimaera is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand, perhaps the best-known Māori writer today. He is internationally famous for The Whale Rider. Ihimaera lives in New Zealand and is of Māori descent and Anglo-Saxon descent through his father, Tom.
May 28, 2024 · Witi Ihimaera is the first Māori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel, Witi considers ‘the world I’m in as being Māori, not European,’ and his fiction has always grown out of this perspective.
Witi Ihimaera. Three-time winner of the Wattie/Montana Book of the Year award, Katherine Mansfield fellow and playwright Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealand’s most prolific and accomplished writers.
Witi Ihimaera. How have you changed since you were the first Māori novelist published in the 1970s? Witi Ihimaera: I’ve always been the same, but it’s the world that’s changed.
