Witi Ihimaera is een gevierd romanschrijver en korte verhalenverteller uit Nieuw-Zeeland, bekend om zijn meesterlijke proza en diepgaande verkenningen van het Māori-erfgoed. Hij is een pionier in de Māori-literatuur, de eerste die zowel een roman als een bundel korte verhalen publiceerde. Zijn werk wordt gekenmerkt door een unieke stem die traditionele Māori-verhalen verbindt met het hedendaagse leven. Ihimaera was ook hoogleraar en wijdde zich aan de vooruitgang van de Māori-literatuur.
First published in 1972, Pounamu Pounamu introduced an exciting new voice into New Zealand literature. Most of Witi Ihimaera's stories, based on the East Coast, describe a traditional rural, communal way of life facing huge pressures from the drift by many Maori to the cities. This was to be a constant theme in Ihimaera's future writing.
The matriarch is a woman of intelligence, wit, beauty and ruthlessness, and has become a mythical figure through her fight to repossess the land and sustain her people against the ravages wrought by the Pakeha. Priestess of the Ringatu faith, she has been virtually a law unto herself. In his search for the truth behind the legends surrounding the matriarch, his grandmother, Tama Mahana delves deeper and deeper into Maori history and lore to understand the mysterious sources of her power and ambition.
Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny when hundreds of whales beach themselves and threaten the future of the Maori tribe. Basis for the 2003 feature film.
Witi Ihimaeras Geschichten spannen sich von der Vergangenheit der Maori bis in die Gegenwart.
This is NEW ZEALAND text WITI IHIMAERA AND TIM PLANT
A living land of wonder, a shimmering, restless sea, a sky of endless promise. Beautiful North Island of New Zealand contains text by Witi Ihimaera and photographs by Holger Leue. All of New Zealand's most famous landmarks are represented in this book; the Auckland Harbour Bridge, The Sky Tower, Cathedral Square, As well as more unusual images of people and places.
