Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme (born March 9, 1947 in Christchurch , † December 27, 2021 in Waimate ) was a New Zealand writer .

Life

Keri Hulme was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1947, the oldest of six children. Her ancestors were Scottish-English immigrants or Māori on their maternal side .

Her first school was North Brighton Primary, then she attended Aranui High School. When she was 11 years old, her father died. 1967/1968 she studied law at the University of Canterbury , but had to drop out for financial reasons. She got by with odd jobs, as a tobacco picker, cook and postal worker, but also with work on construction and in the fishing industry. At the age of 25, she moved into a lonely house in Okarito on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island , where she could write, read, paint and fish undisturbed.

Keri Hulme was particularly her novel The Bone People (German The Bone People known), for 1985 the Booker Prize was awarded. In German, among others, appeared in 1989. also a volume with stories under the title The Wind Eater. Te Kaihau (in the original Te Kaihau: The Windeater ).

Keri Hulme died in December 2021 at the age of 74.

factories

• Bait
• Stonefish
  • Steinfisch , transl. Christel Dormagen, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 2012, ISBN 3-596-51250-8
• Lost possessions
• Beaches
• Te Kaihau: The Windeater
  • The wind eater. Te Kaihau , translator Christine Frick-Gerke. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1989, ISBN 3-10-031903-6
• The Bone People
  • Under the day moon , translator Joachim A. Frank, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1987, ISBN 3-10-031902-9
• The Silence Between

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Keri Hulme, New Zealand's first Booker prize-winning writer, dies aged 74
2. ↑ Keri Hulme's Bone people wins Booker Prize - New Zealand History Online - (accessed April 4, 2010)

Web links

• Literature by and about Keri Hulme in the catalog of the German National Library
• Keri Hulme. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).