Maori & Tauiwi Literature Lecture (Wellington, New Zealand)

Lecture Description

This one-time presentation, entitled "From Baxter to Blogs: A View of Contemporary Māori and Tauiwi Literature in Aotearoa and New Zealand," will link University of Iowa undergraduates enrolled in the first year honors seminar “Learning about the Social World from Fiction” and New Zealand-based poet and musician Hinemoana Baker. Baker’s lecture will provide a chronological sampling of major Māori poetry and fiction and conclude with a short performance of Baker’s own work followed by a brief Q&A session.

Instructor

Hinemoana BAKER is a New Zealand-based poet and musician. She published her first book of poems Matuhi | Needle in 2004 and attended the International Writing Program as a fall resident in 2010.

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  • Jennifer Feeley’s translation of Tongueless, Lau Yee-wa’s thriller sketching Hong Kong’s slide toward linguistic totalitarianism, is forthcoming from Feminist Press.

  • In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."

  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

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