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Albert Wendt, 2012

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Albert Wendt in black T-Shirt standing next to art work on wall.

Samoan-born Albert Wendt is New Zealand's leading Pacific writer of fiction in English. He has been influential in developing a written Samoan literature in English, drawing from the oral tradition. In 2012, when this photograph was taken, Wendt won the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for Fiction. 

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Lydia Wevers, Fiction – Māori and Pacific writers and writing about Māori, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/41956/albert-wendt-2012 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Lydia Wevers, published 20 June 2013, updated 1 August 2015.