Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme was born in Christchurch on 9 March 1947, to a father of English origin and a mother of Scottish and Māori descent, Kāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe. Rather than going to university, she picked tobacco in Motueka, worked as a cook, a postwoman and a journalist, then attended the University of Canterbury. She had been writing stories and poems since childhood. Suffering from dementia, she died in Waimate on 27 December 2021, aged seventy-four.

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• NovelThe Bone PeopleKeri Hulme · 1984Literature