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Becky Manawatu

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Becky Manawatu


Born
Nelson, New Zealand
Genre
Fiction


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.

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Average rating: 4.43 · 7,969 ratings · 1,030 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
Auē
4.48 avg rating — 7,276 ratings — published 2019 — 17 editions
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Kataraina (Auē, #2)
3.93 avg rating — 688 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions
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Auē: Roman
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Series by Becky Manawatu

Auē Kataraina
(2 books)
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4.43 avg rating — 7,960 ratings

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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
tags: aue, words-can-hurt
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“...he never stopped looking for good where others wouldn’t. And he loved damage. Adored it.”
― Becky Manawatu, Auē
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“Only the other boys my age could do dumb shit fearlessly. They knew there was a bottom to their fall. That if they really messed up, someone would probably notice and stop them. The bottomlessness to my life was dizzying. The choices were as overwhelming as that terrible sea was.”
― Becky Manawatu
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