Patricia Grace

Patricia Frances Gunson was born in Wellington on 17 August 1937, of Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa and Te Āti Awa descent. A pupil at St Anne's School and then at Wellington Teachers' College, she taught in north Auckland, raised seven children and began writing around the age of twenty-five. In 1975 she published the first short story collection by a Māori woman writer, stopped teaching in 1985 and received the Neustadt Prize in 2008. In 2014, she secured protection for her land at Hongoeka Bay, which the state wanted to take for an expressway.

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• NovelPotikiPatricia Grace · 1986Literature