Patricia Grace

From the Centre (eBook, ePUB)

A Writer's Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is quiet, honest, searching, exposing, wise. It is the life of a writer and that in itself is fascinating, but as Patricia will say, writing doesn't come out of nowhere, it comes out of living. So this is also a book of living. Writing and living, woven like kete. From the Centre lifted me. This book is still lifting me. I would love every young Maori writer to read this, and indeed every young woman finding her way with words, against all odds, and indeed every young writer navigating the rugged terrain and the blessed epiphanies life holds out. And it comes down to the power of story . . . This is also a book of beloved whanau, of language, connections, multi-faceted aroha. . . . If I were to pick one book I have read this year and suggest you place it on top of your book pile this it is.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143775621
• Artikelnr.: 61988807

Autorenporträt

Patricia Grace (Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa) is one of New Zealand's most celebrated writers. She has published over 35 titles, including novels, short-story collections, works of non-fiction and books for children, a number of which have been translated into te reo Maori. Among numerous awards, she won the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards in 1986 for the much-loved Potiki, which also won the New Zealand Fiction Award in 1987. She was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story, which won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Tu won the 2005 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Fiction Prize and the Deutz Medal for Fiction and Poetry. She was also awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Oklahoma, in 2008. Her children's story The Kuia and the Spider won the Children's Picture Book of the Year and she has also won the New Zealand Book Awards For Children and Young Adults Te Kura Pounamu Award. Patricia was born in Wellington and lives in Plimmerton on ancestral land, in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay. Her book Cousins was made into an internationally-acclaimed film in 2021, directed by daughter in law Briar Grace-Smith and Ainsley Gardiner.