Hone Tuwhare

Hone Tuwhare (* October 21, 1922, † 16 January 2008) was an eminent poet of New Zealand. He was Māori, and is closely related to the Catlins in the Otago region, where he spent the later years of his life.

Early years

Hone Tuwhare was born in Kaikohe in Northland Iwi Nga Puhi as a member of ( hapu Ngati Korokoro, Ngati Tautahi, Te Popoto, Uri -o- hau ). After his mother's death, his family moved to Auckland, where he attended primary schools in Avondale, Mangere and Ponsonby. He began an apprenticeship as a boiler maker at New Zealand Railways and attended to 1939-1941 Evening courses in mathematics, Technical Drawing and trade theory at the Seddon Memorial Technical College in Auckland and 1941 at Otahuhu College. Tuwhare spoke up to the age of nine Māori. His father, a good speaker and storyteller, encouraged his son in his interest in the written and spoken word, especially in the rhythms and imagery of the Old Testament.

Development as a poet

From 1939 began Tuwhare - encouraged by poets such as RAK Mason - to write in addition to his work as an apprentice at the Otahuhu railway workshops.

In 1956, he began writing seriously after he had been treteten from a local branch of the Communist Party. His first possible instance known work, No Ordinary Sun, was released in 1964. It gained wide attention and was reprinted in the following ten years, ten times. This made it one of the most widely read poetry collections of a single poet in the history of New Zealand.

As published Tuwhare 's first poems in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was regarded as a new beginning in the New Zealand Poetry, as they rose above the discussions and the separation between the generation of the 1930s and the post-war generation. Much of the originality of his work was due to its specific point as a member of the Māori. The poems are characterized by the diversity of moods in which they change the naturalness between formal and informal language, between Humour and pathos, intimacy and controlled anger, but especially because of the presupposed in them loose familiarity of the locals with his Kiwi from readers.

In the late 1970s Tuwhare was involved in cultural and political initiatives of the Māori. At the same time his international reputation grew and he was invited to China and Germany, which led as dying in 1985 for the publication of what is real, among other things.

During his first poems were further launched, constantly were added new works. Tuwhare 's drama " In the Wilderness Without a Hat " was published in 1991. Three other collections of poetry followed: Short Back and Sideways: Poems & Prose (1992 ), Deep River Talk ( 1993) and Shape- Shifter (1997). He was New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate was published ( in about New Zealand Poet Laureate ), in its 2002 results Piggy-Back Moon 1999.

1992 moved the poet after Kaka Point, South Otago and many of his later poems reflect the scenery of the Catlins and available here seafood. He had a close working relationship with the artist Ralph Hotere. Often both works related to one another.

Awards

In 1969 and again in 1974 he received the Robert Burns Fellowship of the University of Otago. In 1991 he received the University of Auckland Literary Fellowship, he was appointed New Zealand's second Te Mata Poet Laureate in 1999. At the end of his two-year term of office, he published in 2001 Piggyback Moon, which was nominated for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Tuwhare was one of the ten greatest living New Zealand artists who have been appointed at a ceremony in 2003 to " Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists.

2003 won Tuwhare also one of the newly created prices of the Prime Minister for literary achievements in the field of poetry. The other winners were the novelist Janet Frame and historian Michael King. The prize money for each prize winner was $ 60,000 NZD. The award honors New Zealand writers who have made ​​outstanding contributions to literature and cultural history of the country.

Tuwhare In 2005 he received an honorary doctorate in literature from the University of Auckland. At the time of his death in 2008 he was regarded as " New Zealand Māori author verdi tester ".

In July 2010 The Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust was established to preserve and promote his legacy.

Works

  • No Ordinary Sun, Auckland, Blackwood and Janet Paul, 1964
  • Come Rain Hail, Dunedin, University of Otago, 1970
  • Sapwood and Milk, Dunedin, Caveman Press, 1972
  • Something Nothing, Dunedin, Caveman Press, 1973
  • Making a Fist of It, Dunedin, Jack Straw Press, 1978
  • Selected Poems, Dunedin, McIndoe, 1980
  • Year of the Dog. Dunedin, McIndoe, 1982
  • What's more real than dying, Straelen Straelener - Ms. - Verl, 1985
  • Mihi: Collected Poems, Auckland, Penguin, 1987
  • Short Back & Sideways, Auckland, Godwit, 1992
  • Deep River Talk: Collected Poems, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1994
  • Shape- Shifter, Wellington, Steele Roberts, 1997
  • Piggy -back Moon, Auckland, Godwit, 2001
  • Oooooo ......! , Wellington, Steele Roberts, 2005
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