Konai Helu Thaman

Konai Helu Thaman was born in 1946 in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. A geography graduate of the University of Auckland, she obtained a master's degree in education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, then a doctorate at the University of the South Pacific, where she taught from 1974. There she headed the Institute of Education and became deputy vice-chancellor, and held the UNESCO chair devoted to teacher education and culture. She published five collections of poems, from 1974 to 1999, among them Langakali, Hingano and Kakala.

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• PoetryYou, the Choice of My ParentsKonai Helu Thaman · 1974Literature