Ranginui, Papatuanuku, Maui, Tawhaki . . . our enduring stories retold.
Witi Ihimaera is of Te Whanau a Kai, Te Aitanga a Mahaki,
Rongowhakaata, Tuhoe, Te Whanau a Apanui and Ngati Porou descent.
He was the first Maori to publish a novel, Tangi, in 1973. He has
subsequently gone on to become one of New Zealand's leading
writers. He is passionate about writing Maori stories and creating
opportunities for them to be shown not only in print but also in
theatre and on film. His memoir, Maori Boy, won the Ockham Award
for the best non-fiction work, 2016. His play, All Our Sons, won
six Wellington theatre awards and was produced by the Auckland
Theatre Company in 2018. He has since published the second volume
of his memoir and written an opera, Flowing Water, which is set in
the Waikato during the New Zealand Wars.
Whiti Hereaka is of Ngati Tuwharetoa and Te Arawa. She is a
playwright, screenwriter, novelist and a barrister and solicitor of
the High Court of New Zealand. She holds a Masters in Creative
Writing (Scriptwriting) from the International Institute of Modern
Letters, Victoria University. She has had several plays produced
and has won Best New Play by a Maori Playwright at the Adam Play
Awards in both 2010 and 2011 and won the Bruce Mason Award in 2012.
She has published two novels, her second one was for young adults
and her first, The Graphologist's Apprentice, was shortlisted for
Best First Book in the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Asia and
Pacific.
Visit Whiti's Facebook page for more information
https-//www.facebook.com/whereaka.
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