Witi Ihimaera

Witi Ihimaera was born in Gisborne on 7 February 1944, of the iwi Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki. A student in Auckland and then in Wellington, a young reporter at the Gisborne Herald, then a journalist in the service of the Post Office, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973, which he served in Canberra, New York and Washington until 1989. He suspended his writing for about ten years from 1975, taught English at the University of Auckland from 1990 to 2010 and received the Prime Minister's Award in 2017.

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• NovelTangiWiti Ihimaera · 1973Literature