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'The best book I read this year is...'
What better time to read than than the holidays? RNZ asked several of Aotearoa's leading authors, critics and book lovers to recommend the best book they read in 2022.
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The launch of a literary festival specifically for Māori writers
Rotorua is hosting a literary festival specifically for Maori writers that the organisers hope will in turn encourage Maori readers. Kupu: Nga Ringa Tuhituhi will celebrate past and present Maori… Audio
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'This is my version of it' - How a Māori legend won NZ's top book award
Novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka tells Kim Hill why she chose to tell the other side of a famous Māori pūrākau and what she'll do with the $60,000 Ockham Book Award she just won. Audio
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Whiti Hereaka: 'This is my version of it' - How a Māori legend won NZ's top book award
Novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka received the top prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this week for her novel Kurangaituku. Audio
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Ockham Book Awards winners crowned
Four quite different books all received top prizes in the Ockham Book Awards in Auckland last night.
They included a meaty history about the New Zealand Wars; a book on fashion in Aotearoa from 1840… Audio
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Wellington novelist wins Jade Medlicott Acorn prize
A Wellington novelist and playwright - Whiti Hereaka - has won Aotearoa's richest writing prize.
The Jann Medlicott Acorn prize, worth 60,000 dollars, was awarded at the Ockham New Zealand Book… Audio
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards' top fiction prize goes to Whiti Hereaka
The winners of this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have just been announced in Auckland.
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Book Critic: Catherine Ross
Today librarian at Diocese School for Girls in Auckland, Catherine Ross, talks about books with a New Zealand author theme. Audio
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Book review: Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka
Audio 8 Nov 2021Luke Finnegan reviews Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka published by Huia Publishers. Audio
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Whiti Hereaka gives bird-woman Kurangaituku a voice
For almost a decade writer Whiti Hereaka has been fleshing out the mythical story of a monster bird woman. The novel is called Kurangaituku - a name and story Whiti's known since childhood. But that… Audio
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"Courage is very related to hopelessness" - author Behrouz Boochani
Hosted by John Campbell, some of Word Christchurch's most distinguished writers respond to the theme of courage: Behrouz Boochani, Laura Jean McKay, and Witi Ihimaera. The second of two hours. Audio
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Book Review - Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers
Audio 25 Oct 2019Book Review - Purakau: Maori Myths Retold by Maori Writers, edited by Witi Ihimaera & Whiti Hereaka. Published by: Penguin Books New Zealand. Reviewed by Anahera Gildea. Audio
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Maori myths and legends - old and new - retold
Traditional Maori myths and legends have been retold as contemporary stories in a new collection called Purakau. Lynn Freeman speaks with Apirana Taylor and Whiti Hereaka, who explains how Witi… Audio, Gallery
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Musical events a major focus of Auckland Writers Festival
Auckland Writers Festival director Anne O’Brien previews this year’s programme. Audio
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Invisibility of Maori in World War One
Whiti Hereaka is a playwright, novelist and screenwriter. Her latest book is Legacy, is a timeslip YA novel about a teenager from 2015 who is hit by a bus and finds himself in WW1, in 1915 serving as… Audio
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Emerging Māori writers selected for mentoring
Six promising writers have been chosen by Huia Publishers to be part of a mentoring program.
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Poutama Ep 3 by Whiti Hereaka - 'Ex Marks the Spot'
Audio 23 Sep 2015When Jesse takes on a customer who Nina refused to tattoo because of their state of mind, she confronts him about his ethics. Jesse explains the balance he maintains being both an artist and an… Audio
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Poutama Ep 2 by Whiti Hereaka - 'Homecoming'
Audio 16 Sep 2015Matt asks Niwa for a favour and Ora gets to meet some whanaunga from the U.S.A. Audio
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Skin Writing - Series 2
The drama continues in the second season of Skin Writing - the the radio drama set in a ta moko studio, The Underworld.Written by award-winning playwrights Whiti Hereaka and Jamie McCaskill. produced… Audio
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John McIntyre reviews new children's books
Audio 8 Aug 2014Am not Esther by Fleur Beale, Longacre ISBN 978-186979-907-6 I Am Rebecca by Fleur Beale, Random ISBN 978-1-77553-549-2 Bugs by Whiti Hereaka, Huia Publishers ISBN 978-1-77550-133-6 Audio
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Unka's Boring Book a 'perfect package'
The top prize at the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards has gone to The Boring Book by Vasanti Unka. Judges say it's anything but - with a boundary-pushing story and beautiful presentation.
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NZ Post Book Awards 2014 - Young Adult
Audio 22 Jun 2014'A Necklace of Souls by R L Stedman' Harper Collins Publishers (NZ), HarperVoyager, reviewed by Beth; 'Bugs' by Whiti Hereaka, Huia Publishers, reviewed by Finn. 'Mortal Fire' by Elizabeth Knox, Gecko… Audio
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Whiti Hereaka
Audio 8 Sep 2013A chat to award-winning playwright and novelist Whiti Hereaka about her new play Rewena, her new novel Bugs, and hanging out with a pack of international writers in Iowa. Audio
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Skin Writing Series II - Part 1: Still Life
Audio 20 May 2012Matt takes Niwa to a life drawing class. Audio
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Spiritual Outlook for 16 October 2011 - Creative Spirits
Immortality, ancestors from the past and childhood memories are the source of inspiration for some of the creative spirits that Sonia Sly meets in Spiritual Outlook. Audio