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• EpicPolynesian MythologyKo ngā mahinga a ngā tūpuna MāoriGeorge Grey · 1854The foundational Maori narratives, gathered in 1854 by a governor who later made war on those who had entrusted them to him.LiteraturePublic domain
• NarrativeStation Life in New ZealandLady Barker (Mary Anne Barker) · 1870Three years of sheep farming in the Canterbury of the first settlers, told in letters.Literature
• NovelThe Story of a New Zealand RiverJane Mander · 1920What a puritan upbringing holds tight, and what life on a building site loosens, in the Northland of the beginning of the century.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesThe Garden Party and Other StoriesKatherine Mansfield · 1922Fifteen stories published in 1922, several of which take the author, then living in Europe, back to the New Zealand of her childhood.Literature
• PoetryThe BeggarR. A. K. Mason · 1924The first collection of an Auckland poet, published at his own expense in 1924 and almost unsold.Literature
• PoetryDominionA. R. D. Fairburn · 1938A long poem of the Great Depression, about a country questioning its colonial past and what it has become.Literature
• NovelThe Godwits FlyRobin Hyde · 1938The childhood and youth of a Wellington girl, drawn, like so many young people of her country, towards England.Literature
• NovelMan AloneJohn Mulgan · 1939A former English soldier adrift in the New Zealand of the Great Depression.Literature
• CinemaRewi's Last StandRudall Hayward · 1940The resistance at Ōrākau in 1864, and a love story between a young Maori woman and a settler across the line of fire.Cinema
• Short storiesThat Summer and Other StoriesFrank Sargeson · 1946Men out of work in Depression-era New Zealand, and the friendship that keeps them on their feet, told in their own speech.Literature
• NovelRoads from HomeDan Davin · 1949A Catholic family of Invercargill, in the far south of the country, and the provincial life that surrounds it.Literature
• CinemaBroken BarrierJohn O'Shea and Roger Mirams · 1952The love of a Pakeha journalist and a young Māori woman, thwarted in turn by both families, in New Zealand in 1952.Cinema
• TaleThe Adventures of Hutu and KawaAvis Acres · 1955A children's album drawn from a weekly newspaper strip, in which the country's plants and birds are painted with accuracy.Literature
• Short storiesImmanuel's Land: StoriesImmanuel's LandMaurice Duggan · 1956An Irish Catholic childhood in the suburbs of Auckland, then the journey to old Europe.Literature
• NovelOwls Do CryJanet Frame · 1957A poor family in a small town in the South, its children at the rubbish dump, and one of them shut away in the asylum.Literature
• NovelSpinsterSylvia Ashton-Warner · 1958A rural schoolteacher, her young Māori pupils and the reading method she invents amid the daily tumult.Literature
• NovelThe RaceRuth France · 1958An offshore race between the country's two islands, caught in the storm of 1951.Literature
• NovelA Way of LoveJames Courage · 1959The life together of two men in London, at a time when their love remained a crime, told by an exiled New Zealander; his native country had the book withdrawn.Literature
• TheatreThe Pohutukawa TreeBruce Mason · 1960A Maori matriarch, her children and their white neighbours, on an ancestral land of which almost nothing remains to her.Literature
• PoetryNo Ordinary SunHone Tuwhare · 1964The first collection by a Māori poet writing in English, in which the fear of the bomb sits alongside childhood, love and grief.Literature
• NovelSydney Bridge Upside DownDavid Ballantyne · 1968A childhood summer in an isolated bay, told by a boy caught between the games of his own age and an adult world that draws him.Literature
• PoetryJerusalem Sonnets: Poems for Colin DurningJerusalem SonnetsJames K. Baxter · 1970Sonnets written beside a river, in a community that a Pakeha poet wanted to found on Maori collective life.Literature
• NovelSmith's DreamC. K. Stead · 1971An imaginary New Zealand fallen under tyranny, a mirror of the years of the Vietnam conflict.Literature
• NovelTangiWiti Ihimaera · 1973Maori funeral rites, from Wellington to a village on the east coast, experienced by a son mourning his father.Literature
• NovelPlumbMaurice Gee · 1978An old rationalist and pacifist minister looks back on a life of trials and on the large family that paid the price.Literature
• PoetryAn Incorrigible MusicAllen Curnow · 1979Poems that set a New Zealand coast beside two Italian political murders, one from the Renaissance, the other from contemporary Italy.Literature
• NovelThe Lovelock VersionMaurice Shadbolt · 1980A saga of pioneers told by its own dead, which mocks the official versions of history.Literature
• CinemaGoodbye Pork PieGeoff Murphy · 1981Two men with nothing in common drive the length of New Zealand from north to south in a small car, with the police on their heels.Cinema
• NovelThe Bone PeopleKeri Hulme · 1984A reclusive painter, a mute child and a father who beats him, on an isolated coast of New Zealand.Literature
• CinemaVigilVincent Ward · 1984A little girl, a farm lost in the mist, and the stranger who takes the place of the dead father.Cinema
• NovelPotikiPatricia Grace · 1986A Maori seaside community faces developers who covet its land, told through several voices.Literature
• CinemaNgatiBarry Barclay · 1987A small Maori town in 1948, a sick child, a doctor who discovers his roots and a slaughterhouse under threat.Cinema
• CinemaFlying Fox in a Freedom TreeMartyn Sanderson · 1989A rebellious young Samoan, caught between the old gods, custom and his father's money.Cinema
• NovelOnce Were WarriorsAlan Duff · 1990Violence and alcohol in a Māori family on a poor housing estate, in New Zealand.Literature
• CinemaThe End of the Golden WeatherIan Mune · 1992The last childhood summer of a twelve-year-old boy, and his friendship with a dreamer whom everyone rejects.Cinema
• CinemaBraindeadPeter Jackson · 1992A son dominated by his mother hides in the cellar a mother who has become undead, in a bloody farce set in the fifties.Cinema
• CinemaThe PianoJane Campion · 1993A mute Scotswoman joins, with her piano, a husband she does not know, on a coast of colonial New Zealand.Cinema
• CinemaOnce Were WarriorsLee Tamahori · 1994A Maori family in the southern suburbs of Auckland, under the violence of a jobless father.Cinema

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