Witi Ihimaera

Witi Tame Ihimaera - Smiler ( born February 7, 1944 known as Witi Ihimaera ) is a New Zealand writer who is often regarded as the greatest living Māori author.

Life

Ihimaera was born near Gisborne, a city in the east of the North Island of New Zealand. His mother was a Māori iwi from Te Aitanga -a- Mahaki, his father Tom Anglo-Saxon origin. He began his career in 1973 as a diplomat at the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held various diplomatic posts in Canberra, New York and Washington. He remained until 1989, with interruptions by fellowships at the University of Otago (1975) and the Victoria University of Wellington in 1982 in this ministry. At the Victoria University of Wellington, he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts. In 1990 he took a position as Professor and Distinguished Creative Fellow in Māori Literature at the University of Auckland.

The majority of Ihimaeras work consists of short stories and novels. The most important among the many written by him stories are Tangi, Pounamu, Pounamu and The Whale Rider. The latter was successfully filmed in 2002 under the title The Whale Rider by Niki Caro and brought the still unknown actress Keisha Castle -Hughes an Oscar nomination. In his stories to Ihimaera engaged in the culture of the Māori in modern New Zealand and the problems in contemporary society Māori.

Ihimaera 's 1995 Nights in the Gardens of Spain, a partially autobiographical work about the coming out of a married father of two daughters. He even had his coming out in 1984 and then began this work, but it is not published at the time of consideration for his daughters.

He was admitted in 2004 for services to literature as a Distinguished Companion in the New Zealand Order of Merit.

His nephew Gary Christie Lewis married in 2004 Davina Windsor, becoming the first Māori, who married into the British royal family.

Works

Novels

  • Tangi (1973 )
  • Whanau (1974 )
  • The Matriarch (1986 )
  • The Whale Rider ( 1987) German: Whale Rider: The magical story of the girl who rode the whale, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2003 ISBN 3-499-23628-1 Reinbek

Short story collections

  • A Sense of Belonging
  • Pounamu Pounamu
  • The New Net Goes Fishing
  • Growing Up Māori
  • Yellow Brick Road
  • Beginning of the Tournament
  • A Game of Cards
  • Return To Oz
  • Ask the Posts of the House
  • Dustbins
  • The Child
  • Big Brothe, Little Sister
  • 1999 appeared to be German stories » Aroha " ( Isele Edition )
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