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| Born | 1968 (age 54–55) Christchurch, New Zealand |
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| Education | MA in creative writing, Victoria University of Wellington |
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Hinemoana Baker (born 1968) is a New Zealand poet, musician and recording artist, teacher of creative writing and broadcaster. [1]
Baker was born in Christchurch in 1968 and grew up in Whakatane and Nelson. She descends from the Ngāi Tahu tribe in the South Island of New Zealand, and from Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa in the North Island. She also has English and German (Bavarian) heritage. [2] Baker identifies as queer and takatāpui. [2]
As of 2021 [update] she is living in Germany, after completing 12 months as Creative New Zealand's Berlin Writer in Residence in 2016. [3] [4] [5] She was chosen as the New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow for 2024. [6]
Baker holds an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.
Baker's writing has been published in a number of journals and anthologies. [7] Her works include the poetry collections mātuhi | needle (2004), [8] kōiwi kōiwi | bone bone (2010), [9] waha | mouth (2014) [10] and funkhaus (2020). [11]
As a musician she has recorded albums of original music. Her first album, puāwai (2004), was a finalist for the New Zealand Music Awards and the APRA Silver Scrolls Māori Language award. [12] Bas has co-edited the anthology Kaupapa: New Zealand Poets, World Issues in 2007 and the 4th Floor online literary journal of Whitireia Polytechnic in 2008. [3] She is one of six German and New Zealand poets to contribute to a collection Transit of Venus, [13] published by Victoria University Press in 2016. [3]
Baker has written two plays which were presented in Taki Rua Theatre's Te Reo Māori Season . Māua Tāua, (produced in 1995) and Pūkeko Tuawhā. [14]
In addition to her Creative New Zealand residency in Berlin, [15] Baker was Arts Queensland Poet in Residence in 2009 and writer in residence with the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa in 2010. [3] She spent 2014 as writer in residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University. She has appeared at festivals and events in New Zealand and in Australia, Indonesia, Europe and the US.
Funkhaus was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. [16]
Catherine Chidgey is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer and university lecturer. She has published eight novels. Her honours include the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters; the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton, France; Best First Book at both the New Zealand Book Awards and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ; the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards on two occasions; and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize.
Dame Fiona Judith Kidman is a New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story writer. She grew up in Northland, and worked as a librarian and a freelance journalist early in her career. She began writing novels in the late 1970s, with her works often featuring young women subverting society's expectations, inspired by her involvement in the women's liberation movement. Her first novel, A Breed of Women (1979), caused controversy for this reason but became a bestseller in New Zealand. Over the course of her career, Kidman has written eleven novels, seven short-story collections, two volumes of her memoirs and six collections of poetry. Her works explore women's lives and issues of social justice, and often feature historical settings.
Donna Tusiata Avia is a New Zealand poet and children's author. She has been recognised for her work through receiving a 2020 Queen's Birthday Honour and in 2021 her collection The Savage Coloniser won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The Savage Coloniser and her previous work Wild Dogs Under My Skirt have been turned into live stage plays presented in a number of locations.
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The International Institute of Modern Letters is a centre of creative writing based within Victoria University of Wellington. Founded in 2001, the IIML offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses and has taught many leading New Zealand writers. It publishes the annual Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems anthology and an online journal, and offers several writing residencies. Until 2013 the IIML was led by the poet Bill Manhire, who had headed Victoria's creative writing programme since 1975; since his retirement, Damien Wilkins has taken over as the IIML's director.
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Tina Makereti is a New Zealand novelist, essayist, and short story writer, editor and creative writing teacher. Her work has been widely published and she has been the recipient of writing residencies in New Zealand and overseas. Her book Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa won the inaugural fiction prize at the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards in 2011, and Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings won the Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Award for Fiction in 2014. She lives on the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand.
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