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Whiti Hereaka

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Born

in Taupo, New Zealand

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Fiction, Contemporary

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Whiti Hereaka is an award-winning novelist and playwright of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tuhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui and Pākehā descent, based in Wellington, New Zealand.

She teaches Creative Writing at Massey University.

She is the author of four novels: The Graphologist’s Apprentice, and the award-winning YA novels Bugs, Legacy, and her retelling of Kurangaituku.

Legacy won the New Zealand Children’s and Young Adult Book Award for YA fiction in 2019 and Kurangaituku was awarded the 2022 Jann Medlicott Acorn Award for fiction, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and was long listed for the Dublin Literary Award, 2023.

She was also co-editor of Pūrākau ...more

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	Kurangaituku 4.33 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers by Witi Ihimaera (Editor), Whiti Hereaka (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Bugs 3.89 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Legacy 3.81 avg rating — 164 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
	The Graphologist's Apprentice 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	You Are Here (korero series) by Whiti Hereaka (Goodreads Author), Peata Larkin (illustrator) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	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
	He Heru. A Comb: An Ornament for the Most Sacred Part of the Body (Volume 7) (Objects Talk Back) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Auckland Writers Festival Read the World (#4) by Courtney Sina Meredith, Madeleine Chapman, Bren MacDibble (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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

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“We are creatures of words...we are creatures of imagination. We live on the edges of dreams and the margins of thought. We live in the whisper of the page.”
― Whiti Hereaka, Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers

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“The lives I have consumed are countless. The lives you can live within stories are endless. Through story, I gift you my sight. I let you see this world as I see it.”
― Whiti Hereaka, Kurangaituku

tags: diversity-and-inclusion, inspirational, oral-history, storytelling

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