Keri Hulme (1947–2021)
Autore di The Bone People
Sull'Autore
Keri Hulme had been writing for several years, little known outside New Zealand feminist and Maori literary circles. Then, during the mid-1980s, she gained international attention for her novel The Bone People. In 1984 she received the Mobil Pegasus Award for Maori Writers and the New Zealand Book mostra altro of the Year Award for fiction, and, in the following year, the distinguished Booker-McConnel Prize, Britain's highest literary honor. Hulme, who was born in Christchurch, is of Maori descent on her mother's side; her father was an Englishman from Lancashire. Studying for a law degree but not completing it, she worked at various jobs before settling down to write full time. The Bone People (1984) remains Hulme's major work. Almost impossible to describe in a coherent way, the novel is a sprawling and puzzling story about a relationship between a strange child, a powerful woman named Kerewin who reluctantly takes him in, and the child's father, who treats him brutally. According to the critic Margery Fee, the implausible yet metaphoric and sophisticated structure of the text sets out "to rework the old stories that govern the way New Zealanders---both Maori (indigenous New Zealanders) and Pakeha (New Zealanders of European origin)---think about their country." Hulme has also published two books of short stories about Maori life, Lost Possessions (1985) and Te Kaihau: The Windeater (1986); the short fiction, too, incorporates the intentionally chaotic and often bombastic style that dominates The Bone People. She has written two volumes of free verse as well, The Silences Between (Moeraki Conversations) (1982) and Strands (1992). Hulme has received extensive attention from international critics who see her, as Margery Fee says, in the forefront of the "postcolonial discursive formation evolving worldwide"---that is, writers who have set out to reinvent the history of imperialism. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Keri Hulme
Opere correlate
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Collaboratore — 150 copie
Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
In Deadly Earnest: A Collection of Fiction by New Zealand Women 1870s–1980s (1989) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Monsters in the Garden : An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy (2021) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Hulme, Kerry (born)
- Data di nascita
- 1947-03-09
- Data di morte
- 2021-12-27
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di nascita
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Luogo di morte
- Waimate, New Zealand
- Causa della morte
- dementia
- Luogo di residenza
- Motueka, New Zealand
Ōkārito, New Zealand
Moeraki, New Zealand - Istruzione
- University of Canterbury
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
tobacco picker
poet
short-story writer
writer-in-residence (University of Otago, 1978)
writer-in-residence (Canterbury University, 1985) - Organizzazioni
- Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand (patron)
University of Otago
Canterbury University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Robert Burns Fellowship (1977)
Booker Prize (1985)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 4,017
- Popolarità
- #6,283
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 113
- ISBN
- 67
- Lingue
- 6
- Preferito da
- 10
At the core of it, however, is the strange relationship between a hermit painter who lives in her self-built tower, a very clever though mute child, and the child's foster father who can be very affectionate, but also very violent. The book has a few parts that are a bit tedious, but also quite a lot that are moving, shocking and suspenseful. It's certainly unlike anything I've ever read before.… (altro)