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  • Published: 1 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9781742539706
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 92

Waiariki




Patricia Grace's popular first collection – sensitive stories of Maori life which explore Maori spirituality and values and pursue relationships between people, family and races.
Also available as an eBook

  • Published: 1 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9781742539706
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 92

About the author

Patricia Grace

Patricia Grace is one of New Zealand’s most prominent and celebrated Maori fiction authors and a figurehead of modern New Zealand literature. She garnered initial acclaim in the 1970s with her collection of short stories entitled Waiariki (1975) — the first published book by a Maori woman in New Zealand. She has published six novels and seven short story collections, as well as a number of books for children and a work of non-fiction. She won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction for Potiki in 1987, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which also won the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Her children’s story The Kuia and the Spider won the New Zealand Picture Book of the Year in 1982.

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