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Witi Ihimaera

Auteur van The Whale Rider

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Witi Ihimaera was born in Gisborne, New Zealand on February 7, 1944 into a Maori family of Mormons. After completing a B.A. in English, he worked as a journalist in New Zealand and started writing fiction. His first collection of short stories, Pounamu Pounamu, was published in 1972 and his first toon meer novel, Tangi, was published in 1973. His other works include Whanau, The Matriarch, The Whale Rider, The Dream Swimmer, Sky Dancer, The Trowenna Sea, and The Parihaka Woman. In 1982 he coedited an anthology of Maori writing, Into the World of Light, and continues to be a champion of literature in English by Maoris. In 2015 his title's Maori Boy: A Memoir and White Lies made The New Zealand Best Seller List and in 2016 it won the New Zealand Award general nonfiction award. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Fotografie: Witi Ihimaera. Photo by Simon Birkenfeld (Manatū Taonga).

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Werken van Witi Ihimaera

The Whale Rider (1987) 1,412 exemplaren
The Matriarch (1986) 102 exemplaren
Pounamu Pounamu (1972) 100 exemplaren
The Uncle's Story (2000) 86 exemplaren
Bulibasha King of the Gypsies (1994) 86 exemplaren
Nights in the Gardens of Spain (1995) 57 exemplaren
Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers (2019) — Redacteur — 47 exemplaren
Tangi (1973) 43 exemplaren
The Parihaka Woman (2011) 40 exemplaren
Sky Dancer (2003) 39 exemplaren
Black Marks on the White Page (2017) 29 exemplaren
The Dream Swimmer (1997) 24 exemplaren
Ihimaera: His Best Stories (2003) 23 exemplaren
The Whale Rider [youth edition] (2005) — Auteur — 23 exemplaren
Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood (2014) 23 exemplaren
Whanau (1974) 21 exemplaren
Where's Waari? (2000) 17 exemplaren
The Rope of Man (2005) 16 exemplaren
Woman Far Walking (2000) 16 exemplaren
The new net goes fishing (1977) 14 exemplaren
The Trowenna sea : a novel (2009) 13 exemplaren
Tangi & Whanau (1994) 12 exemplaren
This is New Zealand (1998) 11 exemplaren
Whanau II (2004) 11 exemplaren
Growing up Māori (1998) 11 exemplaren
White Lies (2013) 11 exemplaren
Auckland : The city in literature (2003) — Redacteur — 10 exemplaren
Dear Miss Mansfield (1989) 9 exemplaren
The Little Kowhai Tree (2002) 9 exemplaren
Into the world of light : an anthology of Maori writing (1982) — Redacteur — 8 exemplaren
The thrill of falling: stories (2012) 8 exemplaren
Mataora The Living Face: Contemporary Maori Artists (1996) — Redacteur — 7 exemplaren
Ask the Posts of the House (2007) 6 exemplaren
Maori 6 exemplaren
Get on the Waka: Best Recent Maori Fiction (2007) — Redacteur — 6 exemplaren
Band of Angels (2005) 5 exemplaren
Te Ata: Maori Art from the East Coast, New Zealand (2002) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren
Native Son (2019) 4 exemplaren
The Legendary Land (1994) 4 exemplaren
Beautiful New Zealand (1998) 4 exemplaren
Te ao marama: Regaining Aotearoa : Maori writers speak out (1993) — Redacteur — 4 exemplaren
Beautiful South Island (1998) 3 exemplaren
Mahana (2017) 3 exemplaren
Land, sea & sky (1994) 2 exemplaren
the astromancer (2022) 2 exemplaren
Te Ao Marama volume 4 (1994) 2 exemplaren
Out there : portraits of the Hero Parade (2001) — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Nga Kupu Wero 1 exemplaar
Le Patriarche (2020) 1 exemplaar
Vaalaratsanik (2014) 1 exemplaar
On Top Down Under (1998) 1 exemplaar
The Matriarch 1 exemplaar

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Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica (2003) — Medewerker — 25 exemplaren
One World of Literature (1992) — Medewerker — 24 exemplaren
The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories (2000) — Medewerker — 21 exemplaren
Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing (2000) — Medewerker — 19 exemplaren
Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English (2003) — Medewerker — 13 exemplaren

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ANZAC Author Challenge June 2015- Kim Scott & Witi Ihimaera in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (juli 2015)

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An evocative collection of short stories revolving around Māori traditions and values in a modern setting, told from various points of view in a small town. The pride and underlying love in community is at constant - and perhaps a losing - struggle with the slow disconnect of the young people to their culture as Pākehā influences overwhelm their lives. It presents the reality and evolution of indigenous cultures in today's world with matter-of-fact clarity, not pessimistically nor optimistically. Another great addition to Māori literature.… (meer)
 
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kitzyl | 4 andere besprekingen | Jul 31, 2023 |
Maori chief Koro Apirana is an old man who feels his health and strength fading. He is desperate to have an heir of his own blood to pass on the things the next leader must know. But when his grandson produces the first child of the next generation, it is a disappointing girl. Koro vows to have nothing to do with her and to look outside his immediate family for the next heir.

The girl, Kahu, makes her great grandfather the center of her life and loves him like no other. She also has inherited some of the mystical Maori powers – apparently she can speak to the whales, echoing the Maori legend of Paikea who led his people to New Zealand on the back of a whale.

The story is told by Rawiri, Kahu’s uncle who is finding his own balance between the Maori traditions and the modern world. At one point he goes to work in Papua New Guinea, where, he finds that although the plantation owner’s son is his best friend, other dark-skinned people in the country are treated poorly.

The third set of characters are a pod of whales – we are inside the pod and hear their thoughts as they travel from the Antarctic northward to the fateful island of New Zealand.

This is much more than a children’s story, although it is often depicted as such. It’s a beautiful combination of the exquisitely sad and the beautiful with a strong element of humor thrown in (Go Nanny Flowers!) , which as the author says in an interview, is like “putting an arrow in the bum”(shooting someone with an arrow in the ass) to keep it from being too overwhelming to read.

5 stars with a few tears at the end.
… (meer)
 
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streamsong | 44 andere besprekingen | Jul 23, 2023 |
Differs from the movie enough to keep you guessing, while still being just as charming.
 
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grahzny | 44 andere besprekingen | Jul 17, 2023 |
I have the same review for nearly every anthology: I loved some pieces and struggled with others. That's the joy in showcasing different voices and perspectives. I rate this so highly because I found each voice interesting, and because we as readers need it to exist. Pacific cultures are so often missing from conversations and awareness here, and without being at all an expert I find myself called on to provide basic knowledge. I'm happy to have more literature to recommend and another way to learn while I'm so far away.… (meer)
 
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Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |

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Werken
67
Ook door
23
Leden
2,469
Populariteit
#10,385
Waardering
3.9
Besprekingen
76
ISBNs
196
Talen
11
Favoriet
7

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