Story: Fiction
Page 12. All images & media
From page 1 - The first novels, 1860s and 1870s
From page 2 - Romance, Māori and pioneer fiction, 1880s to 1910s
From page 3 - Katherine Mansfield
From page 4 - Women writers, 1920s and 1930s
From page 5 - The New Zealand voice, 1930s and 1940s
From page 6 - New writers after the Second World War
From page 7 - Janet Frame
From page 8 - New writers of the 1970s and 1980s
From page 9 - Contemporary fiction
From page 10 - Māori and Pacific writers and writing about Māori
How to cite this page
Lydia Wevers, Fiction, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/228635/media (accessed 24 June 2026).
Story by Lydia Wevers, published 11 August 2014, updated 1 August 2015.