![]() Jock Philips, 1987) and Homeplaces: Three Coasts of the South Island of New Zealand (words by Hulme, photographs by Robin Morrison, 1989). ![]() It is my turangawaewae-ngakau, the standing-place of my heart.’ Partial accounts of her childhood are in ‘Okatiro and Moeraki’ in Te Whenua, Te Iwi/The Land and The People (ed. Her holidays were spent with her mother’s extended family at Moeraki, on the Otago East Coast, a landscape filled with the residue of its Maori past, which remains important for linking Hulme with her Maori ancestors: ‘I love it better than any place on Earth. Hulme was schooled at North New Brighton Primary School and Aranui HS (Christchurch). Her mother came from Oamaru, of Orkney Scots and Maori descent (Käi Tahu, Käti Mämoe). Her father, a carpenter and first-generation New Zealander whose parents came from Lancashire, died when Hulme was 11. ![]() ![]() Within New Zealand she has held writing fellowships at several universities, served on the Literary Fund Advisory Committee (1985–89) and the Indecent Publications Tribunal (1985–90), and in 1986–88 was appointed ‘cultural ambassador’ while travelling in connection with the bone people.īorn and raised in Otautahi, Christchurch, Hulme is the eldest of six children. Hulme, Keri (1947– ), novelist, short story writer and poet, gained international recognition with her award-winning the bone people. ![]() FROM THE OXFORD COMPANION TO NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE ![]()
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