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Whiti Hereaka
Whiti Hereaka (born 1978) is a New Zealand playwright, novelist and screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. She has held a number of writing residencies and appeared at literary festivals in New Zealand and overseas, and several of her books and plays have been shortlisted for or won awards. In 2022 her book ''Kurangaituku'' won the prize for fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and ''Bugs'' won an Honour Award in the 2014 New Zealand Post Awards for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand. Biography Whiti Hereaka was born in 1978 and grew up in Taupo. Hereaka is of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa and Pākehā descent. Her favourite childhood reading included books by Roald Dahl, the Narnia series, '' Anne of Green Gables'', ''Tanglewood Tales'' and The Moomins. She is a barrister and solicitor and holds a Masters in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Ngāti Tūwharetoa is an iwi descended from Ngātoro-i-rangi, the priest who navigated the Arawa canoe to New Zealand. The Tūwharetoa region extends from Te Awa o te Atua (Tarawera River) at Matatā across the central plateau of the North Island to the lands around Mount Tongariro and Lake Taupō. Tūwharetoa is the sixth largest iwi in New Zealand, with a population of 35,877 of the 2013 New Zealand census, and 40% of its people under the age of 15. The tribe consists of a number of ''hapu'' (subtribes) represented by 33 ''marae'' (meeting places). The collective is bound together by the legacy of Ngātoro-i-rangi as epitomised in the ariki (paramount chief), currently Sir Tumu te Heuheu Tūkino VIII. In the 2013 New Zealand census 35,877 people identified as Ngāti Tūwharetoa. By the 2018 New Zealand census, there were at least 47,103 people identifying with the iwi, including 44,448 identifying with the Taupō branch, and 2,655 identifying with the Kawerau branch. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative New Zealand
The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets and audiences for New Zealand arts domestically and internationally. Its funding consists of approximately 30% central government funding and the remaining amount from the Lotteries Commission. In 2014/15, the Arts Council invested a record $43.6 million in New Zealand arts and arts organisations. Funding is available for artists, community groups and arts organisations. Creative New Zealand funds projects and organisations across many art-forms, including theatre, dance, music, literature, visual art, craft object art, Māori arts, Pacific arts, Inter-arts and Multi-disciplinary. Funding Creative New Zealand funding is distributed under four broad funding programmes: * Investment programmes * Grants and special opportunities * Creati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tawata Productions
Tawata Productions is contemporary Māori and Pasifika performing arts company established in 2004 based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), New Zealand. They produce theatre, screen and digital work as well as the festivals: Kia Mau, Breaking Ground and the Pūtahi Festival. Tawata showcases work by Māori, Pasifika and Indigenous writers and makers and is led by Hone Kouka and Mīria George. About Tawata Productions was founded by playwrights and directors Mīria George and Hone Kouka in 2004 and their home base is Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington. Tawata Productions produce and tour theatre productions. Productions include ''I,George Nepia'' (2011, by Hone Kouka), about rugby legend George Nēpia, ''He Reo Aroha,'' by Mīria George and Jamie McCaskill, ''The Prospect'' by Maraea Rakuraku, and ''Hui'' by Mitch Tawhi-Thomas. Tawata are invested in promoting, producing and developing work, to this end they have started several events. In 2010 they created an annual f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witi Ihimaera
Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler (; born 7 February 1944) is a New Zealand author. Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people were ignored or mischaracterised in literature. He was the first Māori writer to publish a collection of short stories, with ''Pounamu, Pounamu'' (1972), and the first to publish a novel, with ''Tangi'' (1973). After his early works he took a ten-year break from writing, during which he focused on editing an anthology of Māori writing in English. From the late 1980s onwards he wrote prolifically. In his novels, plays, short stories and opera librettos, he examines contemporary Māori culture, legends and history, and the impacts of colonisation in New Zealand. He has said that "Māori culture is the taonga, the treasure vault from which I source my inspiration". His 1987 novel '' The Whale Rider'' is his best-known work, read widely by children and adults both in New Zealand an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin Literary Award
The International Dublin Literary Award ( ga, Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath), established as the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, is presented each year for a novel written or translated into English. It promotes excellence in world literature and is solely sponsored by Dublin City Council, Ireland. At €100,000, the award is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. If the winning book is a translation (as it has been nine times), the prize is divided between the writer and the translator, with the writer receiving €75,000 and the translator €25,000. The first award was made in 1996 to David Malouf for his English-language novel ''Remembering Babylon''. Nominations are submitted by public libraries worldwide – over 400 library systems in 177 countries worldwide are invited to nominate books each year – from which the shortlist and the eventual winner are selected by an international panel of judges (which changes eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatupatu
In Māori tradition, Hatupatu (or "Hatu Patu") was the youngest of four sons of the Te Arawa iwi, and became a chief. When he was growing up he was bullied by his elder brothers. Legend tells of his wily escape from the bird-woman Kurangaituku, by hiding inside a rock and then leading her into a boiling mud pool. Having grown into a man of ability and confidence, he led his people in battle against their enemy, chief Raumati, who had burned the Te Arawa canoe. Killing this powerful enemy, he gained great respect and mana, and set himself on the path to becoming one of the most famous of all Māori warriors. The parents of Hatupatu were Tamateahirau and Okarikiroa. In popular culture A book by New Zealand author Whiti Hereaka about this legend from the from the point of view of the bird-women called ''Kurangaituku'' (Huia Publishers 2021) won the top prize for fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The legend was the subject of a song by the same name performed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship
The NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship (known informally as the Foxton Fellowship) is an annual literary fellowship in New Zealand established by Peter and Dianne Beatson in 2001. History and conditions The fellowship was set up by Peter and Dianne Beatson in 2001 as a way of supporting New Zealand writers and writing, and has previously included the option of a month's residency at the Beatsons’ holiday house at Foxton Beach. It is open to writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama. Applicants must be members of the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and need to show that they are working on a new project which has a high level of literary merit and national significance. The successful applicant receives a stipend of $10,000. The fellowship has also been known as the Foxton Fellowship or the Beatson Fellowship. The first recipients were Janice Marriott ( 2001–2002), Chris Else (2002–2003), Marilyn Duckworth (2003–2004), Sue McCauley (2004–2005), Jackie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storylines Children's Literature Foundation Of New Zealand Notable Books List
The Storylines Notable Book Awards constitute an annual list of exceptional and outstanding books for children and young people published in New Zealand, by New Zealand authors and illustrators, during the previous calendar year. History The Storylines Notable Book Awards began in 1999 and have been announced each year since then. The list is announced each year in March and the awards are made at the Storylines Margaret Mahy Awards Day together with the Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture, and the announcement of the winners of the Storylines Tessa Duder Award, Tom Fitzgibbon Award, Joy Cowley Award and the Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book. This event is held in Auckland on the weekend closest to 2 April, International Children’s Book Day (and the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen). Eligibility and conditions * The books named as Storylines Notable Books are chosen by a panel of experts (appointed by Storylines) who may include writers, illustrators, teachers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a series of literary awards presented annually to recognise excellence in children and young adult's literature in New Zealand. The awards began in 1982 as the New Zealand Government Publishing Awards, and have had several title changes until the present one in 2015, including New Zealand Children's Book Awards. they are administered by the New Zealand Book Awards Trust and carry prize money of . History The awards began in 1982, as the New Zealand Government Publishing Awards, with two categories, Children's Book of the Year and Picture Book of the Year. A non-fiction award was presented in 1986, but not in 1987 or 1988, the final years of this incarnation of the awards. No awards were presented in 1989, but in 1990, Unilever New Zealand (then the New Zealand manufacturer of Aim toothpaste) restarted them as the AIM Children's Book Awards. with the two categories, Fiction, and Picture Book. Second and third pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam NZ Play Award
The Adam NZ Play Award is an annual award in New Zealand given to new plays. There are a range of categories and submitted plays are read blind by a panel of industry professionals. History The award started in 2008 and was initially called the Playmarket New New Zealand Play Award. The Adam Foundation support the awards with a total of $8,000 in prizes. The Adam Foundation was established by Denis and Verna Adam in 1976 initially for art and then for other creative endeavours. Denis Adam died in October 2018. There is also an Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. In 2019, Mitch Tawhi Thomas became the first playwright to win an Adam NZ Play award twice, the first for ''Hui'' in 2012 and then for ''Pakaru'' (in 2019). The winners are announced at a ceremony each year. Eligibility and conditions The panel accepts up to three new plays but only be submitted to the competition once. There are no style or length limits. The plays must not have had a professional prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Mason Playwriting Award
The Bruce Mason Playwriting Award is an annual award that recognises the work of an outstanding emerging New Zealand playwright. The winner is decided by the votes of a panel of leading New Zealand artistic directors and script advisors. The award is named after New Zealand's playwright Bruce Mason CBE (1921–1982). Mason's best known plays are ''The End of the Golden Weather'' and the ''Pohutukawa Tree.'' The award was established by Independent Newspapers in 1983, the year after Mason's death, with assistance from Playmarket, for an amount of $2,000. It is currently a $10,000 award managed by Playmarket and has been funded over the years by the FAME Trust (Fund for Acting and Musical Endeavours), Downstage Theatre Society, Bruce Mason Trust and Rachel and David Underwood. Bruce Mason Playwriting Award recipients * 1983 Fiona Farrell * 1984 Simon O'Connor * 1985 Stephanie Johnson * 1986 Rosie Scott * 1987 Sarah Delahunty * 1988 Stuart Hoar * 1989 James Beaumont * 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
