In this extract from his new memoir, Witi Ihimaera remembers his apprenticeship as the first Māori writer to have his fiction published in New Zealand.
Witi Ihimaera
Witi Ihimaera worked as a cadet journalist with the Gisborne Herald and as a postman before he began a distinguished career as one of New Zealand’s most garlanded and loved authors. His first book Pounamu Pounamu (1972) was a collection of short stories.
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Saturday short story: Der Traum, by Witi Ihimaera
‘Everyone began to hongi, press noses, in the sign of respect and conciliation’: a new story by the legendary author Witi Ihimaera.