| LC control no. | n 50031577 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9639.3.I5 |
| Personal name heading | Ihimaera, Witi, 1944- |
| Variant(s) | Ihimaera-Smiler, Witi Tame, 1944- Ihimaera, Witi Tame, 1944- Smiler, Witi Tame Ihimaera-, 1944- |
| See also | Employer: University of Auckland http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60679 |
| Other standard no. | Q983228 39399075 0000000081179727 11255665 E39PBJjmQtJ87xVJQbYkmtWv73 |
| Associated country | New Zealand |
| Located | Auckland (N.Z.) |
| Birth date | 1944-02-07 |
| Place of birth | Waituhi (N.Z.) Gisborne (N.Z.) |
| Field of activity | Fiction Short stories Novels Drama |
| Affiliation | University of Auckland |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Writers Creative writing teachers University and college faculty members Novelists Dramatists Diplomats English teachers College teachers |
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| Found in | Author's Pounamu, pounamu, 1972: t.p. (Witi Ihimaera) Into the world of light, 1982: t.p. (Witi Ihimaera) Authors' choice, 2001: page 280 (Witi Ihimaera; novelist, short story writer, editor and playwright; he lives in Auckland) Ihimaera : his best stories, 2003: title page (Witi Ihimaera) page 4 of cover (born in Gisborne, New Zealand, in 1944; pioneer of Maori writing in English; was a diplomat for many years, and now teaches English and creative writing at the University of Auckland) New Zealand Book Council website, April 27, 2016 (Ihimaera, Witi; first Maori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel; in 1996 he also moved to foreground his sexuality, describing Nights in the Gardens of Spain as keeping faith with his gay audience; he writes new work for opera; Ihimaera, Witi (Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler) (1944- ), novelist, short story writer, anthologist and librettist, was born in Gisborne; of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki descent, with close affiliations to Tühoe, Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngati Kahungunu, and Ngai Tamanuhiri, and links to Rongowhakaata, Ngati Porou, and Te Whakatohea. His family marae is the family house of the Pere family, Rongopai, in Waituhi, near Gisborne) <http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/ihimaerawiti.html> Encyclopædia Britannica online, May 8, 2019 (Witi Ihimaera; New Zealand author; Witi Ihimaera, in full Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, (born February 7, 1944, Waituhi, near Gisborne, New Zealand), 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 was married to a woman and later discovered that he was gay) <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Witi-Ihimaera> |
| Associated language | eng |
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