Patricia Grace

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Lady Patricia Frances Grace , DNZM (* 1937 in Wellington ) is a New Zealand author of Māori - Renaissance .

biography

Patricia Grace gained wide recognition as a key figure in Māori literature in the English language. She is descended from the Iwi Ngāti Raukawa , Ngāti Toa and Te Ati Awa . She is also linked to the Ngāti Porou through her marriage . Grace grew up in Wellington and attended Catholic schools there. In her spare time, she often visited her relatives who live on traditional tribal land. There she got to know the traditional legends and myths of the Māori, which she later processed in her literature. Since 1970 she has lived with her family on the Māori tribal land in Plimmerton near Wellington.

Patricia Grace is a teacher and mother of seven children. In the 1960s and 1970s, she began publishing her short stories in magazines and journals. At first she published in Te Ao Hou , Landfall and Islands, among others .

In 1975 she went down in the history of New Zealand literature when she became the first Māori writer to publish a collection of short stories called Waiariki . In 1994 Patricia Grace received the LiBeraturpreis for her book "Potiki" . In addition to her short stories and novels, she published children's books in the Māori language, among other things . With this activity she supports the efforts to keep this language alive.

Works

Novels

  • Mutuwhenua (1978) - PEN / Hubert Church Award for the Best First Book of Fiction
  • Potiki (1986), reprint: University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu 2006, ISBN 0-8248-1706-0
    • German: Potiki , translated by Helmi Martini-Honus, Unionsverlag, Zurich 2005 ISBN 3-293-20342-6
  • Cousins (1992)
    • German: Drei Cousinen , translated by Helmi Martini-Honus and Jürgen Martini, Unionsverlag, Zurich 2005 ISBN 3-293-20342-6
  • Baby No-eyes (1998)
    • German: Anapuke, Berg der Ahnen , translated by Helmi Martini-Honus and Jürgen Martini, Unionsverlag, Zurich (2003), ISBN 3-293-00317-6
  • Dogside Story , University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu (2001), ISBN 0-8248-2584-5
  • Tu , Penguin Books, Auckland (2004), ISBN 0-14-301920-1 . In 2005 Patricia Grace received one of the

New Zealand Book Awards.

Short story collections

  • Waiariki (1975)
  • The Dream Sleepers (1980)
  • Electric City and other Stories (1987)
  • Selected Stories (1991)
  • The Sky People , Penguin Books, Auckland (1994), ISBN 0-14-023780-1
    • One of the short stories, translated by Rainer Arnold, was published in 1998 under the title Such a way of talking in the collection of poppies on black felt by Unionsverlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-293-20108-3 .
  • Small holes in the silence. Short Stories , Penguin Books, Auckland (2006), ISBN 0-14-302099-4

Children's books

  • The Kuia and the Spider (1981)
  • Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street (1984)

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Past Winner by Year - 2005 . New Zealand Book Awards Trust , 2005, accessed May 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Grace, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grace, Patricia Frances (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand author of the Māori Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellington , New Zealand