Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme ( born March 9, 1947 in Christchurch ) is a New Zealand writer.

Life

Keri Hulme was considered Oldest of six children in Christchurch ( New Zealand) born. Their ancestors were Scottish- English immigrants or maternal Māori.

Her first school was the North Brighton Primary, then she attended the Aranui High School. When she was 11 years old, her father died, John W. 1967/1968 she studied at the University of Canterbury law, but it had to stop for financial reasons. She slapped her with odd jobs through when Tabakpflückerin, cook and postal workers, but also to work on the construction and the fishery. At the age of 25 she moved to a lonely house in Okarito on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand to write there undisturbed, read, draw and to fish.

Awards

For her novel " The Bone People", with the German edition under the title The Bone People, she received the 1985 Booker Prize. In addition, 1987 was published a little volume of short stories "The Windeater Te Kaihau. " ( German, 1992: "The wind eaters Te Kaihau. " ) From 1967 to 1968.

Works

• Bait
• Stonefish. German stonefish, Translator Christel Dormagen, Fischer Verlag 8/2012
• Strands
• The Windeater. Te Kaihau, German Translation The wind eaters. Te Kaihau, stories, translated by Christine Frick - Gerke. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-11176-5.
• The Bone People, German translation The Bone People, from the English by Joachim Frank A.; Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991 ISBN 3-596-10173-5.