Hinemoana Baker

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Hinemoana Baker at the Lyrikmarkt in Berlin 2016

Hinemoana Baker (born March 19, 1968 in Christchurch ) is a poet and singer-songwriter who also gives creative writing courses.

Life

Hinemoana Baker is descended from the Māori on her father's side , more precisely the Ngāi Tahu , the Ngāti Raukawa , the Ngāti Toa and the Te Āti Awa and therefore speaks and writes in the Maori language . But she also has family roots in England and Oberammergau . She lived in Whakatāne and Nelson during her childhood and youth , then for over twenty years in Wellington and the Kapiti Coast district . Since 1990 she has performed internationally both as a poet and as a singer-songwriter. She had readings and concerts not only in New Zealand, but also in Indonesia, Australia, Europe and the USA. In addition to working on her lyrics and songs, she is also a producer and hosted a program on Radio New Zealand National about Maori music , Waiata . She produced several radio features for the station.

Hinemoana Baker's poetry brings together different cultures and ways of thinking, some of which question one another. The family and collective-oriented values ​​and norms of Maori culture meet the individualization efforts from the Pākehā cultures. Many of the poems express feelings such as love, joy and gratitude, but also sadness, pain or the feeling of not being enough. Her poems have been repeatedly described by critics as graceful.

Publications

Books

  • mātuhi | needle , Victoria University Press, Wellington and Perceval Press, Santa Monica 2004
  • kōiwi kōiwi | bone bone , Victoria University Press, Wellington 2010
  • waha | mouth , Victoria University Press, Wellington 2014

Albums

  • puāwai , Jayrem Records, 2004
  • snap happy (together with Christine White as Taniwha), 2008

Awards

  • Finalist of the NZ Music Awards and the APRA Silver Scrolls for the Māori Language award
  • 2009 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence
  • 2010 Writer in residence of the University of Iowa International Writing Program in 2010
  • 2014 Writer in residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University
  • 2016 Creative New Zealand's Berlin Writer's Residency in Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hinemoana baker about. Hinemoana Baker, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Baker, Hinemoana. New Zealand Book Council, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  3. ^ Adriana Weber, Te Manu Korihi: Hinemoana Baker awarded Berlin residency. Radio New Zealand , June 29, 2015, accessed June 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Baker, Hinemoana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand poet and singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Christchurch