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Becky Manawatu

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Becky Manawatu


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Nelson, New Zealand
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Becky Manawatu (Ngāi Tahu) was born in Nelson in 1982, raised in Waimangaroa and has returned there to live with her family. She worked as a reporter for The News in Westport.

Becky’s short story ‘Abalone’ was long-listed for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, her essay ‘Mothers Day’ has been selected for the Landfall anthology Strong Words.

Auē is her first novel & it won both the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction and the Hubert Church Prize for best first book of fiction at the 2020 Ockham Book Awards.


Average rating: 4.41 · 8,566 ratings · 1,092 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
Auē

4.47 avg rating — 7,754 ratings — published 2019 — 18 editions
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Kataraina (Auē, #2)

3.91 avg rating — 812 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions
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Auē Kataraina
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“I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them.”
Becky Manawatu, Auē

“...he never stopped looking for good where others wouldn’t. And he loved damage. Adored it.”
Becky Manawatu, Auē

“No one played songs here. No one listened to music or told stories. They didn't even realise not doing those things made them bad people. The worst thing was I didn't think Aunty Kat was a bad person, she was just a ghost of a person, and I knew why. Uncle Stu made people doubt they existed, and when you doubted you existed long enough, you started to disappear.”
Becky Manawatu, Auē

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