Keri Hulme, New Zealand’s First Booker Prize Winner, Dies at 74 - The New York Times

The power Ms. Hulme drew from her Maori heritage shone through in her work, especially in “The Bone People,” which won the literary prize in 1985.
After attending North New Brighton Primary School and Aranui High School in Christchurch, Ms. Hulme worked for a season picking hops and tobacco in the Tasman region before briefly studying law at th… [+1643 chars] Read More