2 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:5.00

more photos (1)

Tina Makereti’s Followers (93)

Tina’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (0)
read (2)

Tina’s Friends

Tina hasn't connected with her friends on Goodreads, yet.

Tina Makereti

Goodreads Author

Born

New Zealand

Website

http://www.tinamakereti.com/

Twitter

TinaMakereti

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Member Since

July 2011

edit data

Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings is Tina Makereti’s first novel. Her short story collection, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa (Huia Publishers 2010), won the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards Fiction Prize 2011. In 2009 she was the recipient of the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing (non-fiction), and in the same year received the Pikihuia Award for Best Short Story written in English. In October 2012, Makereti was Writer in Residence at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, and in 2014 she is the Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writer in Residence. Makereti has a PhD Creative Writing from Victoria University, and teaches creative writing and English at Massey and Victoria Universities. She is of Ngāti Tūwharet ...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Tina Makereti questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Tina Makereti’s books

Average rating: 4.16 · 2,220 ratings · 363 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mires 4.20 avg rating — 973 ratings — published 2024 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Rekohu Bone Sings 4.37 avg rating — 542 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke 3.79 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Marks on the White Page by Witi Ihimaera (Editor), Tina Makereti (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 95 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa 4.14 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales for Canterbury: Survival, Hope, Future by J.C. Hart (Goodreads Author) (editor), Anna Caro (Goodreads Author) (editor), Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures (The New Oceania Literary Series) by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner (Editor), Craig Santos Pérez (Editor), Jean Anderson (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction, 2015 by Jolisa Gracewood (Editor), Susanna Andrew (Editor), Greg Bruce (Contributor) 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pacific Monsters (Fox Spirit Books of Monsters, #4) by Margrét Helgadóttir (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tina Makereti (Goodreads Author), A.J. Fitzwater 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Compulsion In Us 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Tina Makereti…

Quotes by Tina Makereti (?)

“He could not take from me the language that was already under my skin. No, I had not the spiral markings that my father had worn but I am sure the same ink runs through my veins.”
― Tina Makereti, The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke

1 likes

“Life climbs back into itself, life makes itself anew, and even the desecration of a people is no match for the plans the sacred has for itself.”
― Tina Makereti, Where the Rekohu Bone Sings

1 likes

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Book Loving Kiwis: BLK Hangman	1315	76	Dec 08, 2015 12:46PM
Read Women: Asian American and Pacific Islander Authors	5	61	May 31, 2019 08:06PM
Travel with books: Χώρα, συγγραφέας και βιβλίο	8	21	Oct 09, 2019 03:50AM
2026 Reading Chal...: Angie's 25 or more Completed	39	169	Dec 30, 2019 04:29PM
Read Women: 2020 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month	14	45	Jun 22, 2020 07:51PM
The Seasonal Read...: Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD	3383	280	Aug 31, 2021 09:00PM
Ultimate Popsugar...: 15 - A Book by a Pacific Islander Author	124	3309	Dec 07, 2022 10:27AM
Book Loving Kiwis: Just finished!	1590	346	Dec 10, 2022 01:42PM
Book Loving Kiwis: What Are You Currently Reading?	1966	414	Dec 10, 2022 01:45PM
2026 Reading Chal...: ♠️♥️Carmen's 250+ Mysteries and other creatures♦️♣️	518	238	Dec 31, 2022 12:05PM