Background
Hulme was born in Christchurch, in New Zealand"s South Island. The daughter of a carpenter and a cr manager, she was the eldest of six children. Her father died when she was 11 years old.
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In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor—a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge. Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.
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(At once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious explora...)
At once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European New Zealand meet, Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People is a powerful and unsettling tale saturated with violence and Maori spirituality.
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(A descriptive autobiography by Keri Hulme, winner of the ...)
A descriptive autobiography by Keri Hulme, winner of the Booker prize in 1985, of her "homeplaces". For Hulme, these are three places in her native New Zealand: Okarito, a former goldrush settlement on the West Coast; Moeraki, site of ancient habitations; and Stewart Island on the southernmost tip. Keri Hulme is also the author of "Bone People", which won the Booker Prize in 1985, and "The Windeater".
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Hulme was born in Christchurch, in New Zealand"s South Island. The daughter of a carpenter and a cr manager, she was the eldest of six children. Her father died when she was 11 years old.
Her parents were of English, Scottish, and Māori (Kai Tahu) descent. "Our family comes from diverse people: Kai Tahu, Kāti Mamoe (South Island Maori iwi). Orkney islanders; Lancashire folk.
Faroese and/or Norwegian migrants," Hulme told Contemporary Women Poets Her early education was at North New Brighton Primary School and Aranui High School.
Hulme worked as a tobacco picker in Motueka after leaving school. She began studying for an honours law degree at the University of Canterbury in 1967, but left after four terms and returned to tobacco picking.
By 1972, she decided to begin writing full-time, but, despite family support, was forced to go back to work nine months later. She continued writing, some of her work appearing under the pseudonym Kai Tainui.
During this time, she continued working on her novel, The Bone People, ultimately published in February 1984.
The novel was returned by several publishers before being accepted by the Spiral Collective. Hulme was a writer-in-residence at the University of Otago in 1978, and at the University of Canterbury in 1985. She lives in Oamaru, in North Otago.
Hulme has been the Patron of New Zealand Republic since 1996.
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