Keri Hulme

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Keri Hulme (born March 9, 1947) is a New Zealand writer, best known for The Bone People, her only novel.

Hulme was born in Christchurch, in New Zealand's South Island. The daughter of a carpenter and a credit manager, she was the eldest of six children. Her parents were of English, Scottish, and Māori (Ngāi Tahu) descent. Hulme's early education was at North New Brighton Primary School and Aranui High School. Her father died when she was eleven years old.

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. All this while, 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, but won the 1984 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and the Booker Prize in 1985.

Hulme was a writer-in-residence at the University of Otago in 1978, and at the University of Canterbury in 1985. She lives in Okarito, in Westland, New Zealand. Hulme has been the Patron of the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand since 1996[1]. She identifies as an aromantic asexual and is an atheist.[2]

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

Novels

  • The Bone People (1984)
  • Bait and On the Shadow Side (in progress; referred to by Hulme as 'twinned novels')

Poetry

  • The Silences Between (Moeraki Conversations) (1982)
  • Lost Possessions (1985)
  • Strands (1992)

Short stories

  • Te Kaihau: The Windeater (1986)
  • Te Whenua, Te Iwi/The Land and The People (1987)
  • Homeplaces: Three Coasts of the South Island of New Zealand (1989)
  • Stonefish (2004)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ People Involved. Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand. Retrieved on 2008-01-24.
  2. ^ The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved on 2007-08-31.

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