
	Where results make sense

Topic: Witi Ihimaera

Related Topics

Witi Tame Ihimaera

Frank Sargeson

Patricia Grace

Margaret Mahy

Maurice Gee

Culture of New Zealand

Chris Carter (politician)

New Zealand literature

Anita McNaught

Bic Runga

Jane Campion

Kiri Te Kanawa

List of New Zealanders

Maori

Kyan Douglas

In the News (Sat 5 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	PBS Program Club: Program Pick
		Award-winning New Zealand writer Witi Ihimaera (The Matriarch, Tangi) was inspired to write Whale Rider in 1985 while living in an apartment in New York overlooking the Hudson River.
		The sight of a whale spouting on the river in 1985 reminded Ihimaera of his people's legend, and led to his story about young Paikea and her grandfather, Koro.
		Witi Ihimaera said he was inspired to write the book on which the movie is based after his two daughters complained how unfair it was that movie heroes were always male.
	www.pbs.org /pbsprogramclub/0507_whri.html (374 words)

	The Whale Rider : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		In Ihimaera"s skilful characterisation gender stereotypes are subtly subverted in Kahu"s increasing strength as the story unfolds and in Nanny Flower"s, Koro"s wife, fierce indpendent streak who is constantly threatening her husband with a divorce.
		From this dramatic opening, Ihimaera weaves a magical story blending myth and reality in equal measure bringing to light questions such as the importance of history, the role of the family, the interaction of man with his environment, conflict between generations and how the past inextricably shapes the present.
		Ihimaera writes with shimmering briliance blessed with a poetic eye for detail and imagery mirrored, perhaps, by his love of nature in all its elemental beauty.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/0152050167/The_Whale_Rider.html (799 words)

	IHIMAERA, Witi
		Ihimaera was interested in writing from an early age, and recalls scrawling stories across the whole wall of his room at the family farm at Whakarau.
		Central to Ihimaera’s fiction is the fact that the kaupapa he writes to has as its central goal the interpretation and reinterpretation of the concerns of the iwi from the viewpoint of the past.
		Witi Ihimaera is available for writer visits as part of the Book Council's Writers In Schools programme.
	www.bookcouncil.org.nz /writers/ihimaerawiti.html (1802 words)

	Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace article
		Ihimaera acknowledges that the coming of the Pakeha and the signing of the Treaty (to which his own family never set their moko, or sign) diminished Maori sovereignty and frayed what he has called 'the rope' of Maori culture te taura tangata that stretches from the beginning to the end of time.
		Witi Ihimaera was born in 1944 in a small village near the remote East Coast of the North Island, the 'Waituhi' of his fiction.
		In Ihimaera's early fiction the losses of mana and land that have occurred since colonisation are strongly condemned, but the traditional past remains a constant and important presence in the form of the village of Waituhi which is still there to be visited.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/engl392/492/williams.html (11636 words)

	Witi Ihimaera - NZ Literature File - LEARN - The University Of Auckland Library
		'Chunua Achebe and Witi Ihimaera.' Literary Half-Yearly (Mysore) 21(1): 104-111; 1980.
		Witi Ihimaera's The Matriarch and critical abjection.' In: Nationalism vs.
		Witi Ihimaera's Dear Miss Mansfield : Essays in Honour of Dieter Riemenschneider.' In: Crabtracks : Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English.
	www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/nzp/nzlit2/ihimaera.htm (4027 words)

	ipedia.com: Witi Ihimaera Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, generally known as Witi Ihimaera, is a New Zealand author, and is often regarded as the most prominent Maori writer alive today.
		Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler (born 1944), generally known as Witi Ihimaera, is a New Zealand author, and is often regarded as the most prominent Maori writer alive today.
		Ihimaera was born near Gisborne, a town in the east of New Zealand's North Island.
	www.ipedia.com /witi_ihimaera.html (250 words)

	Witi Ihimaera -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ihimaera was born near Gisborne, a town in the east of New Zealand's (The smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait) North Island.
		In 1990, he took up a position at the (additional info and facts about University of Auckland) University of Auckland.
		Most of Ihimaera's work consists of short stories or (A extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story) novels.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/witi_ihimaera.htm (126 words)

	GW News Center
		Ihimaera is the first Maori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel.
		Ihimaera is the only writer to receive three Wattie/Montana Book of the Year Awards, also having won for The Matriarch (1986) and Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies (1994).
		Ihimaera was awarded second prize at the Watties for editing the acclaimed Te Ao Marama (1993), a landmark series of Maori writing.
	www.gwu.edu /~media/pressrelease.cfm?ann_id=14191 (515 words)

	News - Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Witi Ihimaera is the first Maori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel.
		Witi Ihimaera has won first prize again in the Watties with The Matriarch in 1986 and second prize, as editor of the acclaimed Te Ao Marama landmark series of Maori writing since 1980, in five volumes, in 1993.
		In 2004, Witi Ihimaera was honoured in the Queen's Birthday list as a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
	columbian.gwu.edu /news/index.php/id/20 (736 words)

	Witi Ihimaera
		Witi Ihimaera is the first Maori writer to have had his works published and made accessible to a larger public.
		Ihimaera is considered one of the most important native New Zealand voices.
		Ihimaera lives in Auckland, where he has taught since 1990.
	www.literaturfestival.com /bios1_3_6_236.html (435 words)

	Knitting Circle Witi Ihimaera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Like many Maori at the time, Witi Ihimaera was not brought up speaking Maori but studied it at Victoria University of Wellington which he attended as a part-time student from 1969.
		A magical, mythical work about a young girl whose relationship with a whale ensures the salvation of her village, it is, says Witi Ihimaera, the work of his 'that the Maori community accepts best'.
		Described by Witi Ihimaera as an attempt to write a Maori western, this 'exuberant novel É with a New Zealand brand of magical realism' recounts the rivalry between two great Maori families of shearers and sportsmen and women spanning the period from World War 1 to the 1990s.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /stafflag/witiihimaera.html (1425 words)

	8 November 2004 \| Witi Ihimaera participates in World Literature Programme
		Prominent New Zealand writer, Witi Ihimaera, has received funding from Fulbright New Zealand to take up an annual short-term residency in World Literature at George Washington University, Washington DC.
		Professor Ihimaera plans to give a public lecture on New Zealand literature; participate in a reading with other New Zealand writers; and will offer workshops or seminars to creative writing and film students on writing the novel and the experience of turning a novel into an internationally-honoured film.
		Witi is the author of The Whale Rider, which has been made into an internationally honoured film.
	www.fulbright.org.nz /news/releases/041108-ihimaera.html (136 words)

	Moving Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Witi Ihimaera, who will be delivering this year's Distinguished Lecture as well as taking part in the Festival, has won many national New Zealand literary awards.
		He has won the Montana NZ Book of the Year Award for fiction three times, one of only two New Zealand writers to do so.
		Witi Ihimaera recently received one of his country's highest honours: Distinguished Companion, Order of New Zealand.
	www.english.hawaii.edu /events/wihimaera.html (188 words)

	NZEPC - Voyagers - Witi Ihimaera - Oh Numi Tutelar
		Witi Ihimaera was born in Gisborne, New Zealand.
		He is also Associate Professor of English at the University of Auckland, and a respected commentator on Maori and Pacific literature, art, film, education, culture and politics.
		Witi is one of only two New Zealand writers to have won the Wattie (now called the Montana) New Zealand Book of the Year Award three times: with his first novel, Tangi in 1973, with The Matriarch in 1986 and Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies in 1994.
	www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz /features/whetu_moana/ihimaera.asp (335 words)

	Reed Publishing
		Witi Ihimaera was born in Gisborne, New Zealand and now lives in Auckland.
		Witi Ihimaera’s other books include The Whale Rider (novel, 1987), Whanau (novel, 1974), The New Net Goes Fishing (short stories, 1976), Dear Miss Mansfield (short stories, 1989), Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies (novel, 1994), Nights in the Gardens of Spain (novel, 1995) and The Dream Swimmer (novel, 1997).
		In 2004, Witi was honoured in the Queen's Birthday list as a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
	www.reed.co.nz /profiled.cfm?viewauthor=35 (288 words)

	WHALE RIDER: the book and the movie - www.ezboard.com
		My understanding is that Witi Ihimaera's Whale Rider (1986) was the first Maori novel to be published in New Zealand.
		In the summer of 1986, when Maori writer Witi Ihimaera was serving in Manhattan as New Zealand's Consul General, an errant whale took a wrong turn and wandered up the Hudson River.
		It put Ihimaera in mind of an ancient legend from his home half a world away, about a chief who rode in from the sea on the back of a whale, and began the proud lineage of Whangara chiefs descending through the firstborn son.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2003/nov2003/whalerider.html (502 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ihimaera Witi
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ihimaera Witi
		Ihimaera, Witi (1944- ), the best known of the many New Zealand Maori writers who have been active since 1970.
		In the early 20th century, levels of spoken Maori declined to dangerously low levels.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Ihimaera_Witi.html (97 words)

	Witi Ihimaera
		Witi Ihimaera wurde 1944 in Gisborne, Neuseeland, geboren.
		Ihimaera war der erste Maori-Schriftsteller, dessen Arbeiten veröffentlicht und so Lesern anderer Kulturen zugänglich gemacht wurden.
		Ihimaera versteht sich als Mittler zwischen den Kulturen der Maori und der Pakeha, den europäischstämmigen Neuseeländern.
	www.literaturfestival.com /bios1_1_6_236.html (394 words)

	Bibliofemme: The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
		As in many of his books, the decline of traditional Maori culture is of major importance but Ihimaera never reveals enough about their traditions, legends and society to make the reader a sense of place or to empathise with young Kahu, her family and the troubles of their tribe.
		Ihimaera, a former diplomat, is well known in NZ as a novelist, short story writer, anthologist and even opera librettist.
		While Ihimaera considers English to be "profane" (in comparison to Maori which he says in "sacred" for him), it is the language that he chooses as his primary source for articulating his visions of Maori identity.
	www.bibliofemme.com /reviews/whalerider.shtml (1812 words)

	Witi Ihimaera puts Razza the Rat back into the spotlight - The University of Auckland
		Professor Ihimaera’s story is based on the real-life rat experiment of University of Auckland PhD student James Russell, who released a male rat named Razza on an uninhabited island in the Noises, in the Hauraki Gulf.
		Razza’s aquatic escape is the longest distance recorded for a rat swimming across open sea—and his adventures made headlines around the world.
		Witi Ihimaera will give two public readings of his new book on Saturday 9 December from 2:00pm at the Takapuna Library, and on Sunday 10 December from 12:30pm at the Auckland Central City Library.
	www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/about/news/articles/2006/11/razza.cfm (265 words)

	Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera
		A magical, mythical work, this novella (now a movie) follows the fate of a young Maori girl and her attempts to honor the traditions of her ancestors.
		Ihimaera takes as a point of imaginative departure his experiences growing up in the rapidly transforming Maori village of Waituhi, near Gisborne on the isolated east coast of New Zealand's North Island.
		Originally published in 1987 as a young adult novel, Ihimaera has written a series of librettos, novels, short stories and memoirs, many addressing the political and social reality of the Maori.
	www.longitudebooks.com /find/p/52049/mcms.html (113 words)

	Amazon.com: The Whale Rider: Books: Witi Ihimaera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Witi Ihimaera in Front Matter
		This Is New Zealand by Witi Ihimaera in Front Matter
		The Dream Swimmer by Witi Ihimaera in Front Matter
	www.amazon.com /Whale-Rider-Witi-Ihimaera/dp/0152050167 (1065 words)

	Sky Dancer by Witi Ihimaera, reviews, links and opinions, book club reading suggestions
		This is the latest novel from Witi Ihimaera, the much acclaimed New Zealand Maori writer whose novel The Whale Rider is now an internationally award winnign film.
		And it is this battle for power and land that lingers on in your mind well after you have finished reading the novel, leaving questions to ask ourselves today about our role in the great history of our culture and our land.
		This is Ihimaera's ninth novel and by far his wildest.
	www.book-club.co.nz /books03/11skydancer.htm (916 words)

	Witi Ihimaera -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in full Witi Tame Ihimaera Maori author whose novels and short stories explore the clash between Maori and Pakeha (white, European-derived) cultural values in his native New Zealand.
		Ihimaera attended the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington and began his career in New Zealand's foreign affairs ministry; he served as New Zealand consul to…
		More results on "Witi Ihimaera" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9000464 (324 words)

	Chrysalis Books - The Uncle's Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Set in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam and in present-day New Zealand and North America, Witi Ihimaera’s dramatic novel combines unflinching realism with the superb storytelling for which he is so renowned, and which made 'The Whale Rider' an international literary and cinematic success.
		Witi Ihimaera was the first Maori writer to publish a collection of short stories ('Pounamu Pounamu', 1972) and a novel ('Tangi', 1973).
		A prolific author and editor, he was for many years a diplomat, and now lectures in English and creative writing at the University of Auckland.
	www.batsford.com /book/1861058373 (198 words)

	Auckland Writers & Readers Festival - Authors - Witi Ihimaera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Witi Ihimaera was born in Gisborne and now lives in Auckland.
		He has had a distinguished career as a diplomat and university lecturer.
		The Nature of Blood: Witi Ihimaera and Caryl Phillips
	www.writersfestival.co.nz /programme/prog_authors/ihimaera.asp (187 words)

	UH Manoa and East-West Center Present Sixth Fall Writer's Festival - a Celebration of Oceanic and Caribbean ...
		The collaboration will bring together internationally renowned Oceanic and Caribbean writers for a week of exciting world-class literature and innovative discussion of globalization from island perspectives.
		The closing session of the festival will feature a seminar with Witi Ihimaera entitled “Remapping the Heart,” followed by a screening of the film, “Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree.” The film will be presented by Wendt, author of the novel from which the film is adapted.
		Ihimaera recently received one of his country's highest honors: Distinguished Companion, Order of New Zealand.
	www.uhm.hawaii.edu /cgi-bin/uhnews?20041104105125 (1646 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)