Story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki

More links and websites

• Huia Publishers

  Huia Publishers is New Zealand’s only Māori-focused publishing house. Founded in 1991, Huia promotes writing by Māori, in both English and te reo Māori.

• Kōmako

  A bibliography of writing by Māori in English. The website's search function allows you to browse by category, including works of fiction.

• Māori Literature Trust

  The Māori Literature Trust was founded to promote Māori writers and writing; the Te Papa Tupu Writers Programme mentors promising Māori writers.

• Te Ao Hou

  Online copies of the magazine Te Ao Hou (1952–76), originally published by the Department of Māori Affairs.

• Te Ha

  A forum established in 1991 to promote excellence in writing by Māori, Te Ha is affiliated with Toi Māori Aotearoa.

• Writers files

  Profiles of writers, on the New Zealand Book Council’s site.

More suggestions and sources

• Della Valle, Paola. From silence to voice: the rise of Māori literature. Auckland: Libro International, 2010.
• Heim, Otto. Writing along broken lines: violence and ethnicity in contemporary Māori fiction. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1998.
• Ihimaera, Witi, and D. S. Long, eds. Into the world of light: an anthology of Māori writing. Auckland: Heinemann, 1982.
• Ihimaera, Witi, and others, eds.Te ao mārama. Vols 1–5. Auckland: Reed, 1992–96.
• Pearson, Bill. ‘The Maori and literature.’ In The Maori people in the nineteen-sixties: a symposium, edited by Erik Schwimmer, 217–256. Auckland: Blackwood and Janet Paul, 1968.
• Sturm, Terry, ed. The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998.