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Article: Readings in Pacific Literature.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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Indigenous Pacific writing in English effectively began to appear in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the publication of works by Albert Maori Kiki, Vincent Eri, Witi Ihimaera, Patricia Grace, and Albert Wendt. These have been followed by a steady stream of distinguished writers, most famously perhaps by Keri Hulme, whose novel The Bone People (see WLT 60:2, p. 363) won international acclaim with the 1985 Booker Prize; other writers, like the Tongan novelist Epeli Hau'ofa (see WLT 68:1, pp. 49-52) and the Maori poet Hone Tuwhare, whose first collection was published in 1964, have consistently produced work of outstanding quality, but work which until recently has been ...