Patricia Grace

Patricia Frances Grace, DCNZM ( * 1937 in Wellington ) is a New Zealand author of the Māori Renaissance.

Biography

Patricia Grace gained wide recognition as a key figure in Māori literature in English. It originates from the iwi Ngāti Raukawa, Ngati Toa and Te Ati Awa. By her marriage she is also associated with the Ngāti Porou. Grace grew up in Wellington and attended Catholic schools. In her free time she often visited her relatives who live on traditional tribal lands. There she learned the traditional legends and myths of the Māori know what they processed later in their literature. Since 1970 she is living with your family himself on tribal land of Māori in Plimmerton near Wellington.

Patricia Grace is a teacher and mother of seven children. In the 1960s and 1970s, she began to publish her ​​short stories in magazines and newspapers. At first she published among others in Te Ao Hou, Landfall and Iceland.

In 1975, she went down in the history of New Zealand literature, when it became the first Māori writer published a short story collection called Waiariki. In 1994, Patricia Grace received for her book " Potiki " the LiBeraturpreis. In addition to her short stories and novels she published among other children's books in the language of the Māori. This activity supports the efforts to keep the language alive.

In 2006 she was awarded the prize of the Prime Minister of New Zealand for literary merit.

In 2008 she was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Works

Novels

  • Mutuwhenua (1978 ) - PEN / Hubert Church Award for the Best First Book of Fiction
  • Potiki (1986 ), Reprint: University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu 2006, ISBN 0-8248-1706-0 German: Potiki, translated by Helmi Martini Honus, Union Verlag, Zurich 2005 ISBN 3-293-20342-6
  • German: Three cousins ​​, translated by Helmi Martini Honus and Jürgen Martini, Union Verlag, Zurich 2005 ISBN 3-293-20342-6
  • German: Anapuke, mountain of the ancestors, translated by Helmi Martini Honus and Jürgen Martini, Union Verlag, Zurich (2003), ISBN 3-293-00317-6

New Zealand Book Awards.

Short story collections

  • Waiariki (1975 )
  • The Dream Sleepers (1980 )
  • Electric City and other Stories ( 1987)
  • Selected Stories (1991 )
  • The Sky People, Penguin Books, Auckland ( 1994), ISBN 0-14-023780-1 One of the short stories in 1998, translated by Rainer Arnold to talk under the title A kind in the collection poppies on black felt in the Union Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-293-20108-3, published.

Children's Books

  • The Kuia and the Spider ( 1981)
  • Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street ( 1984)
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