Keri Hulme
Kai Tainui, Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme
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Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme (9 March 1947 – 27 December 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985; she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for a debut novel. Hulme's writing explores themes of isolation, postcolonial and multicultural identity, and Māori, Celtic, and Norse mythology.
Career
- 1947Born
- 1975Won Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award
- 1977Won Robert Burns Fellowship
- 1985Won Booker Prize
- 2021Passed away
- Notable work: The Bone People
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Christchurch
- •Citizenship: New Zealand
- •Known as: novelist, writer, poet
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How Keri Hulme’s outsider story became one of the Booker Prize's most controversial winners
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Keri Hulme, titan of NZ literature and the country's first Booker Prize winner, has died
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