Hawai'i Bibliovision

Hawai'i Bibliovision, March 2007, features a stimulating discussion of the work of one of the most critically-acclaimed Pacific novelists, Patricia Grace.

This roundtable discussion is conducted by well-respected writers and scholars: Robert Sullivan, Caroline Sinavaiana, Reina Whaitiri, and Ku’ualoha Ho'omanawanui.

For nearly four decades, Patricia Grace has been a key figure in literature, both in her native Aotearoa New Zealand, and in the wider Pacific. Her work tells important and poignant stories of contemporary indigeneity. From her first novel, Mutuwhenua, through Potiki, Cousins, Baby No-eyes and, most recently, Tu, Patricia Grace has carved a voice of stark beauty which is idiosyncratic, yet representative of Pacific values, identities and narratives.

Patricia Grace has been awarded many nations honors, and in 2001 her novel, Dogside, won the Kiriama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

(Anne Kennedy, writer and educator, contributed to this description of the work of Patricia Grace.)

Photo: Patricia Grace receives the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for Fiction 2006 from Prime Minister Helen Clark. Photo courtesy of Neil Mackenzie

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