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Keri Hulme


Born
in Christchurch, New Zealand
March 09, 1947

Died
December 27, 2021

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry


Hulme, Keri (1947–2021), novelist, short story writer and poet, gained international recognition with her award-winning The Bone People. Within New Zealand she has held writing fellowships at several universities, served on the Literary Fund Advisory Committee (1985–89) and the Indecent Publications Tribunal (1985–90), and in 1986–88 was appointed ‘cultural ambassador’ while travelling in connection with The Bone People.

Born and raised in Otautahi, Christchurch, Hulme is the eldest of six children. Her father, a carpenter and first-generation New Zealander whose parents came from Lancashire, died when Hulme was 11. Her mother came from Oamaru, of Orkney Scots and Maori descent (Käi Tahu, Käti Mämoe). Hulme was schooled at North New Brighton ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 24,492 ratings · 2,455 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
The Bone People
4.04 avg rating — 23,962 ratings — published 1984 — 61 editions
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Te Kaihau/the Windeater
3.80 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 1987 — 12 editions
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Stonefish
3.83 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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Lost Possessions
3.74 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions
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Strands
3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings — 3 editions
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The Silences Between:
4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1985
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Homeplaces: Three coasts of...
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Bait
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Imagining Argentina
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“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People
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“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme
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“A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People
tags: dysfunctional-families, family, relationships
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Polls

March 2017 New School Classic Poll

Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987, 324 pgs
 
  58 votes, 18.2%

 
  50 votes, 15.7%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232 pgs
 
  41 votes, 12.9%

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 1989, 288 pgs
 
  35 votes, 11.0%

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, 1953, 143 pgs
 
  24 votes, 7.5%

 
  21 votes, 6.6%

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 1931, 418 pgs
 
  20 votes, 6.3%

 
  19 votes, 6.0%

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 1939, 231 pgs
 
  18 votes, 5.7%

 
  17 votes, 5.3%

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, 1904, 336 pgs
 
  12 votes, 3.8%

The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 1984, 450 pgs
 
  3 votes, 0.9%

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