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Story: Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki

Te ao mārama

Author Title
* First published in this anthology
Donna Rapira ‘Who am I?’
Chris Winitana ‘White in brown’
Te koi o te mere (extract)
Ngatai Huata ‘W.A.R.N.’
Pearl de Vere Boyed ‘Still clearing the land’
‘Pita and the old man’
‘The Pākehā half’
‘Letter to Mita’
Linda Taukamo Year of the eye (extract)*
Norman Te Whata ‘This street’*
‘Black and tan’*
Mahinarangi Tocker ‘everything that is’*
‘hell to pay’*
‘Papatūānuku (will survive)’*
‘A woman’
Hinewirangi ‘I am Māori’
‘Earth mother’
‘Fried bread’
‘Papatūānuku’
‘Intrusion’
‘Expectations’
‘Barriers’
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku ‘Auntie Marleen’
‘Sunday drive’
‘Kurangaituku’
‘Makawe’
‘Their public/private passion’
Willie Hona ‘Station of love’*
Marewa Glover ‘No karanga for me’*
‘Mooncall’
‘Pāua’
‘Auntie Netta’*
‘Putting out her fire’*
Whanake Rangataua
Cole Seymour ‘Piss up and rage’
‘Groper face’
‘A cry for help’
Diana Matapuku ‘A beautiful day’
Andrew Manuel ‘Proud to be Māori’
Thomas Kaika ‘Phenixphlite’
Jason Waitokia ‘The sputnik’
Matthew Howell ‘Boof em – the street fighter’
Eugene Grace ‘One Saturday morning’
Riwia Brown Roimata (extract)*
Te hokina (The return) (extracts)*
Teremoana Pehimana ‘I don’t wear no rings’*
‘The scream’
‘Wāhinemoana’*
‘Mercury gold’*
‘For my father, William Pehimana Sparks’*
Bruce Stewart Mangu (extract)
‘The confirmation’
Te au (extracts)*
Broken arse (extracts)
Truda Chadwick ‘The innocent’*
Brian Potiki ‘no auckland’*
‘okareka’*
Hiroki’s song (extract)*
Michael O’Leary ‘Torbay revisited’
‘For my father in prison, 1965’
‘Noa/Nothing I (An irony)’
‘Rübesahl – A fable in four parts with a prologue and epilogue’
Straight (extract)
Lisa Reihana ‘shootin the shit with lily barbados’
Emare Karaka ‘Torn apart’*
‘About my work: 2’*
‘Fisher-woman’
Gabrielle Louise Muir ‘Tōtara dreaming (on his birthday)’*
‘Nana’*
‘In the school holidays’*
Dilworth Karaka ‘No nukes’*
‘Pay the man’*
Vernice Wineera Pere ‘Toa rangatira’
‘Ao Tea Roa’
‘Mama-san’
‘At La'ieloa’
‘Essay’
Rangi Chadwick ‘Amnesia II (1985)’*
Checkmate breakfast (extract)*
Barry Barclay Te Rua (extracts)*
Patrick John Rata ‘Ados on her sleeve’ (extract)*
‘Me and Spike Lee and me’
‘Tribesman with sunlight in his pocket’*
‘At the Polynesian Festival’*
‘Hui is the strongest fulla in Ōtara’
Ana Meihana The mountain song (extract)*
Maxine Naden ‘We are the people’*
‘Ripe belly’*
Reihana MacDonald ‘waiting for the pālagi’
‘Celia’*
‘cheap talk’
Neil Gudsell ‘Say no!’*
Uncooked (extract)*
Alan Duff ‘Memories of a Whaka penny-diver’
Once were warriors (extract)*
One night out stealing (extracts)*
Roma Potiki ‘sometimes we meet’
‘snake woman came to visit’
‘i mark’*
‘i’ll drink water’*
‘Meriana’*
‘bound to’
‘for words lost’
He Ara Hou: Brian Smith, Ngarupiki Reid, Makerita Matapalu, Hemi Rurawha, Lionel Cullinen, Roma Potiki and Maringi Campbell Whatungarongaro (extracts)*
Keri Hulme ‘I asked for riches …’
‘Pā mai tō reo aroha’
‘Tara diptych’
‘Lullaby for a stone doll’
‘Pāuashell gods’
‘Waiting on the laughing owl’
‘Stargazer’*
‘Watch a seal in water …’
Te kaihau/The windeater (extract)
‘Hinekaro goes on a picnic and blows up another obelisk’
the bone people (extract)
Bait (extracts)*
‘Headnote to a Māui tale’
Dean Hapeta ‘Stormy weather’*
‘True justice’*
‘E tū’*
Arapera Hineira Blank, Keri Kaa and Tungia Baker ‘What can I’
‘A letter to my mother’
‘A letter to Sophie: Hohi Pine Whaanga-Kaa’
Heneriata Maxwell ‘Māku rā pea’

This table lists the authors and work that appeared in the third volume of Te ao mārama, a five-volume bilingual collection of fiction and non-fiction writing by Māori authors. It was edited by Witi Ihimaera, and successive volumes were published between 1992 and 1996. Ihimaera selected the work of living or recently deceased writers, so the collection is representative of modern Māori writing. The third volume, Te puawaitanga o te kōrero: the flowering (1993) concentrates on writers who started to be published in the early 1980s. 

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Source: Witi Ihimaera, ed., Te ao marama. Auckland: Reed, 1992.

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Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki – Confronting reality, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/42299/te-ao-marama (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, published 5 August 2013.