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Witi Ihimaera

Born

in Gisborne, New Zealand

February 07, 1944

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

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Witi Ihimaera is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand, perhaps the best-known Māori writer today. He is internationally famous for The Whale Rider.

Ihimaera lives in New Zealand and is of Māori descent and Anglo-Saxon descent through his father, Tom. He attended Church College of New Zealand in Temple View, Hamilton, New Zealand. He was the first Māori writer to publish both a novel and a book of short stories. He began to work as a diplomat at the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1973, and served at various diplomatic posts in Canberra, New York, and Washington, D.C. Ihimaera remained at the Ministry until 1989, although his time there was broken by several fellowships at the University of Otago in 1975 and Victoria ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 11,457 ratings · 1,300 reviews · 69 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Whale Rider 3.84 avg rating — 7,976 ratings — published 1987 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bulibasha: King Of The Gypsies 4.04 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pounamu Pounamu 4.16 avg rating — 490 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Parihaka Woman 4.01 avg rating — 373 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nights In The Gardens Of Spain 3.91 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uncle's Story 4.10 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Matriarch (The Mahana Family, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tangi 4.01 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers by Witi Ihimaera (Editor), Whiti Hereaka (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood 4.12 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Witi Ihimaera

The Mahana Family (2 books)
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Jane Parkin (Editor)

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Quotes by Witi Ihimaera

“When you're sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.”
― Witi Ihimaera, Nights In The Gardens Of Spain

tags: family-relationships, mothers, self-growth, siblings

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“He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves.”
― Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

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“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.”
― Witi Ihimaera, The Matriarch

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Which book do you choose for a Kiwi Readers Group Read?

The Six Pack Three

4 votes 50.0%

Landings by Jenny Patrick

2 votes 25.0%

Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

1 vote 12.5%

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

1 vote 12.5%

The Jigsaw Chronicles by Kevin Ireland

0 votes 0.0%

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