Whiti Hereaka
Autore di Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: https://twitter.com/WHereaka/status/1500772398962208768
Opere di Whiti Hereaka
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Hereaka, Whiti
- Data di nascita
- 1978
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di residenza
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Istruzione
- International Institute of Modern Letters (MA Creative Writing)
- Attività lavorative
- playwright
novelist
screenwriter - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Adam New Zealand Play Awards (2010)
Randell Cottage Writers' Residency (2007)
Bruce Mason Playwriting Award (2012)
Michael King Writer’s Fellowship
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
SFF Down Under (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 115
- Popolarità
- #170,830
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 12
This year target="_top">Whiti Hereaka (b. 1978) went on to win the $60,000 Jan Medlicott medal at the the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Kurangaituku. which inverts the legend of Hatupatu and the fearsome birdwoman Kurangaituku by narrating the story through Kurangaituku's perspective in an experimental form. So I'm late to be discovering what an exceptional author Hereaka is... but better late than never!
The central character in The Graphologist's Apprentice is January, who has made a complete break with her former life by changing her name by deed poll. She is alone and alienated from the people around her, from her job, and from a family never mentioned. As one of the characters says, January is...
Her inner commentary on the people around her is often very funny, but they are a sign that she is in psychological distress.
The firm's Christmas party is real torment:
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2022/07/10/the-graphologists-apprentice-by-whiti-hereak...… (altro)