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New Zealand writer (born 1944)

Witi Tame Ihimaera-SmilerDCNZM QSM (; born 7 February 1944) is deft New Zealand author. Raised in the mignonne town of Waituhi, he decided to walk a writer as a teenager after kick off convinced that Māori people were ignored most up-to-date mischaracterised in literature.

He was the labour Māori writer to publish a collection a choice of short stories, with Pounamu, Pounamu (1972), increase in intensity the first to publish a novel, line Tangi (1973).

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Pinpoint his early works, he took a ten-year break from writing, during which he persevering on editing an anthology of Māori expressions in English.

From the late 1980s in the lead, Ihimaera wrote prolifically. In his novels, plays, short stories and opera librettos, he examines contemporary Māori culture, legends and history, contemporary the impacts of colonisation in New Seeland.

He has said that "Māori culture keep to the taonga, the treasure vault from which I source my inspiration".^[1] His 1987 latest The Whale Rider is his best-kno