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Tina Makereti

Tina Makereti is a New Zealand novelist, essayist, and short story writer, editor and creative writing teacher. Her work has been widely published and she has been the recipient of writing residencies in New Zealand and overseas. Her book Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa won the inaugural fiction prize at the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards in 2011, and Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings won the Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Award for Fiction in 2014.

Tina Makereti
At 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair
At 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair
BornKawakawa, New Zealand
OccupationWriter, novelist, essayist, editor, creative writing teacher

Biography

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Makereti was born in Kawakawa and grew up in different parts of the North Island, including Auckland.[1] She studied in Palmerston North and graduated with a BA Social Sciences (1994) and PGDip Maori Studies (2007) from Massey University.[2]

In 2008, she completed an MA in creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington. Her MA work led to the publication of her short story collection, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa.[3] Her PhD in Creative Writing (2013), also from Victoria University of Wellington, used indigenous literature and perspectives to explore ideas of identity and how this is understood and transmitted following colonisation.[3]

In 2014 she was convenor of the first Māori and Pasifika Writing Workshop (Te Hiringa a Tuhi) at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University.[3][4]

She has taught creative writing in The School of English and Media Studies at Massey University,[5] and since February 2020, is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington's International Institute of Modern Letters and School of English.[6]

Her writing has appeared in many literary journals, magazines and anthologies including Sport, The NZ Listener, Metro, Huia Short Stories 8, Hue and Cry, JAAM, Turbine, Overland Aotearoa and Landfall.[2][7] She has presented her work around New Zealand and overseas in Frankfurt, Jamaica, Taipei, Toronto and the United Kingdom.[8]

While her 2018 novel The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke has been described as based on the life of Hemi Pomara,[9] the Author's note to the novel is clear that the novel 'in no way represents the real historical figure'.[10]

She is of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Rangatahi, Pākehā and, according to family stories, Moriori descent.[5] She lives on the Kāpiti Coast.[11] Her daughter, Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, is also a writer, whose debut novel Tauhou was published in 2023.[12]

Awards and prizes

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Makereti's first book, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, won the inaugural fiction prize at the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards in 2011.[13][14] Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2016[15] and won the 2014 Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Award for Fiction.[16]

In 2009, Makereti won the non-fiction category of the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing with her piece Twitch[17] and the Pikihuia Award[18] for Best Short Story Written in English for Skin and Bones.[2] She was Regional Winner, Pacific, of the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize with her story, 'Black Milk'.[19][20]

In 2012, she was Writer in Residence at the Museum der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt.[21] During her tenure there, she opened the Frankfurt walk which featured New Zealand authors and reproduced part of the Wellington Writers Walk.[22][23]

In 2013, she was the New Zealand Film Archive Curator-at-Large, using film material such as home movie footage, news and advertisements to create a series of exhibitions exploring the social history of childhood in Aotearoa New Zealand.[24][25] She was the 2014 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence[26] and in the same year she took part in Roadwords, a literary tour of southern South Island towns, with three other writers.[27][28] In 2016, she was awarded the 2016 NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship.[29]

In 2022, Tina Makereti's Lumpectomy won the Landfall Essay Competition.[30]

Bibliography

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  • Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa (Huia Publishers, 2010) ISBN 9781869694166
  • Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (Random House, 2014) ISBN 9781775535188
  • Black Marks on the White Page (RHNZ: Vintage, 2017) (an anthology of Māori and Pasifika fiction, edited with Witi Ihimaera) ISBN 9780143770299
  • The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke (RHNZ: Vintage, 2018) ISBN 9780143771562
  • Landfall 244: Spring 2022, edited by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2022) [31]
  • The Mires (Ultimo Press, 2024) ISBN 9781761153693 [32]

References

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  1. ^ Makereti, Tina (27 May 2017). "Tina Makereti: Stories can save your life". E-Tangata. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Tina Makereti". Creative giants of Palmerston North. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "Tina Makereti". International Institute of Modern Letters: Victoria University of Wellington. 13 September 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  4. ^ Trengrove, Steph (11 May 2014). "Diversity the Write Choice". Salient. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Dr Tina Makereti PhD, Lecturer, School of English and Media Studies". Massey University Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Tina Makereti". people.wgtn.ac.nz. Wellington: Victoria University. Archived from the original on 19 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Dr Tina Makereti: Research outputs". Massey University Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  8. ^ "Tina Makereti: ANZL member". ANZL Academy of New Zealand Literature: Te Whare Matatuhi o Aotearoa. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  9. ^ deCourcy, Elisa; Jolly, Martyn (1 July 2020). "How we uncovered the oldest surviving photograph of a Māori person". The Spinoff. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  10. ^ Makereti, Tina (2018). The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke. New Zealand: Penguin Books New Zealand. p. 292. ISBN 9780143771562.
  11. ^ "Tina Makereti". NZSA The New Zealand Society of Authors (Pen NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  12. ^ "Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall". CBC Books, 6 February 2023.
  13. ^ "First Fiction Winner at Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards". Massey University: Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  14. ^ Holman, Jeffrey Paparoa (22 October 2014). "Māori fiction – ngā tuhinga paki. Pg 4. A new breed of writers". Te Ara: The encyclopedia of New Zealand.
  15. ^ "The Nominees: Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings, Tina Makereti, 2106 Longlist". Dublin Literary Award. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  16. ^ "2014 Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards". Massey University: Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  17. ^ "Winners of the Royal Society Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing announced". Creative NZ. 17 November 2009. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  18. ^ "Pikihuia Awards". Maori Literature Trust: Te Waka Taki Korero. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  19. ^ "The 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize". Commonwealth Writers. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  20. ^ Makereti, Tina (4 May 2016). "Black Milk". Granta: the magazine of new writing. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  21. ^ "Authors: Tina Makereti". Penguin Books NZ. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  22. ^ "New Zealand launches writers' walk in Frankfurt". Manatu Taonga: Ministry for Culture & Heritage. 23 July 2015.
  23. ^ "About". Wellington Writers Walk. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  24. ^ "2013 Film Archive Curator-at-Large". The Big Idea. 21 February 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  25. ^ Speer, Sophie (6 June 2013). "Images of childhood from another time". Stuff. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  26. ^ "The Writers: Tina Makereti". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  27. ^ "Roadwords: A literary tour of southern towns by four award winning writers". Creative NZ. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  28. ^ "Roadwords". Roadwords: A literary tour of southern NZ towns by Pip Adam, Laurence Fearnley, Tina Makereti & Lawrence Patchett. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  29. ^ "Congratulations to this fine writer: Tina Makereti wins NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship". NZ Poetry Shelf. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
  30. ^ Makereti, Tina (27 November 2022). "Lumpectomy". The Spinoff. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  31. ^ EDMEADES, LYNLEY (2023). LANDFALL SPRING 2022. [S.l.]: OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS. ISBN 978-1-990048-48-7. OCLC 1341394430.
  32. ^ "The Mires". Ultimo Press. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
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