Pounamu Pounamu: 40th Anniversary Edition - Softcover

Ihimeara, Witi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459637046 ISBN 13: 9781459637047

Verlag: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The Pounamu Pounamu 40th Anniversary Edition is a beautiful hardback collector's volume. It features a foreword by Dame Fiona Kidman and a commentary by Witi Ihimaera on each of the stories. In these author's notes Witi looks back to events from his own childhood that inspired Pounamu Pounamu and the experience of writing and launching the book as a young man in the early '70s.

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Biografía del autor

Three-time winner of the Wattie/Montana Book of the Year award, Katherine Mansfield fellow, and playwright Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealands most accomplished writers. It is Witi Ihimaera's writing that also opened the door to his political career. When the then US Ambassador to New Zealand read a copy of Pounamu, Pounamu he passed it onto the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Norman Kirk. At Mr Kirk's request, Witi Ihimaera joined the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and served as a diplomat in Canberra, New York and Washington. His political career has been significant, he is a respected commentator on Maori, Pacific and indigenous peoples' affairs and has held such diverse roles as liaison officer for Black Power in Wellington. He has also been instrumental in ensuring the Maori art and literature is supported.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ReadHowYouWant
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1459637046
• ISBN 13: 9781459637047
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252
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