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Patricia Grace

Autor(a) de Potiki

38+ Works 1,044 Membros 34 Reviews 2 Favorited

About the Author

Novelist, short story writer, and children's author Patricia Grace was born in Wellington, New Zealand on August 17, 1937. She was a teacher in primary and secondary schools in Northland, Picton, and King County, New Zealand. She is of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa descent and has been mostrar mais instrumental in the emergence of Maori fiction in English. Her first collection of stories, Waiariki, was published in 1975 and won the PEN/Hubert Church Award for Best First Book of Fiction. Her second novel, Potiki, won the fiction section of the New Zealand Book Awards in 1987. Her children's book, The Kuia and the Spider, was the winner of the Children's Picture Book of the Year award in 1982. Another children's book, The Trolley, won the Russell Clark Award in 1994. She also won the 2005 Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry for Tu. She was honored as a living icon of New Zealand art in 2005 and currently lives in Plimmerton, New Zealand. Her title Chappy made the New Zealand Bst Seller List in 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras de Patricia Grace

Potiki (1986) 306 cópias
Tu (2004) 103 cópias
Cousins (1992) 81 cópias
Dogside Story (2001) 73 cópias
The Kuia and the Spider (1981) 59 cópias
Mutuwhenua (1978) 49 cópias
Chappy (2015) 47 cópias
Baby No-Eyes (1998) 45 cópias
Waiariki (1975) 28 cópias
Electric City (1987) 25 cópias
The Sky People (1994) 22 cópias
The Dream Sleepers (1980) 18 cópias
Selected Stories (1991) 14 cópias
Collected stories (1994) 12 cópias
From the Centre (2021) 11 cópias
Haka (2015) 8 cópias
The Trolley (1993) 6 cópias
Areta and the Kahawai (1994) 6 cópias
Ko Maraea me ngā toroa (2008) 4 cópias
Sky People (2001) 4 cópias
Butterflies 2 cópias
Whiti te Rā! (2015) 2 cópias
Ahakoa he iti (1985) 1 exemplar(es)
Bird child & other stories (2024) 1 exemplar(es)
Anapuke, Berg der Ahnen. 1 exemplar(es)
Potila 1 exemplar(es)
Potiki (2017) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contribuinte — 213 cópias
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007) — Contribuinte — 75 cópias
Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Short Stories (1984) — Contribuinte — 72 cópias
Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers (2019) — Contribuinte — 47 cópias
The Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (1996) — Contribuinte — 32 cópias
Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica (2003) — Contribuinte — 25 cópias
One World of Literature (1992) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology (2007) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias

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Amazing illustrations and incredible story of how Te Rauparaha's haka was created.
 
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Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | Feb 14, 2023 |
An exceptionally beautiful and tender collection of short stories touching on Māori traditions and values in modern family and community settings.

I appreciated the efficiency of the storytelling; its efficacy in tackling themes of sacrifice, culture, displacement, respect, racism, whilst also allowing its characters to live buoyant and love-filled Māori lives; and the way Māori words were so naturally incorporated into the prose with no explanation. A great introduction to Māori-NZ literature.… (mais)
 
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kitzyl | Feb 3, 2023 |
78/2021. Potiki, by Patricia Grace, is a novel set in a Maori community in Aotearoa (New Zealand) about family, cultural and economic survival, and how all are linked to environmental caretaking.

A traditional Maori whānau community, the Tamihanas, and their way of life, already under pressure from generations of settler-colonialism, are threatened by ruthless developers who want their land. Their allies, other Maori, local people resisting change, and environmentalists, prove ineffectual against big business with government and the police on their side, but the Tamihanas have a deep-rooted connection to their homeland and their extended family which gives them strength. The story also effortlessly includes disabled family members as half the main point of view characters.

Quote: "She made her way along by the water's edge singing, sometimes talking as she went. Every now and again she would bend and pick something up. If it was something that either lived or could live - a crab, a shellfish or a weed - she threw it into the sea. If it was something that did not live and could not - paper, plastic or tin - she put it into her bucket to take home."
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spiralsheep | outras 7 resenhas | May 10, 2021 |
A group of native New Zealanders survive on their land, some overcoming their alien educations and some fighting to regain territories taken from them ostensibly for a war time landing strip but never so used. A very internally told narrative, a woman, her husband, their children a few others.Their land is valued by external money makers, but they and their way of life are considered obstacles requiring them to persist in spite of what is brought to bear against them.
 
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quondame | outras 7 resenhas | Oct 3, 2020 |

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Obras
38
Also by
20
Membros
1,044
Popularidade
#24,666
Avaliação
3.9
Resenhas
34
ISBNs
131
Idiomas
9
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