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Kauraka Kauraka (5 September 1951 – 1997) was a
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writer. He was born in
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on Rarotonga, the main island of the Cooks, and educated at the
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in Suva, Fiji, and the
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. He published six collections of poems in the English and Rarotongan languages. When Kauraka died in 1997, he was buried on the atoll of
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, northern Cooks. He was the brother of artist and writer Tepaeru Tereora.


Bibliography

* ''Taku Akatauira = My Dawning Star'', IPS, USP, Suva, 1999. * ''Manakonako : Reflections'', IPS, USP, 1992. * ''E au tuatua Ta'ito no Manihiki'', IPS, USP, Suva, 1987. * ''Dreams of the Rainbow : Moemoea a te Anuanua'', Mana Publications, Suva, 1987. * ''Return to Hawaiki'', IPS, USP, Suva, 1980


References


External links

*''Rainbow Women'', in "Voyagers : A selection from Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English" (Auckland UP, 2003). Edited by Robert Sullivan, Albert Wendt and
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