What special gifts does the tuna bring to the children of Champion Street?
Patricia Grace (Author)
Patricia Grace (Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa) is one of
New Zealand's most celebrated writers. She has published over 35
titles, including novels, short-story collections, works of
non-fiction and books for children, a number of which have been
translated into te reo Maori. Among numerous awards, she won the
Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards in 1986 for the much-loved
Potiki, which also won the New Zealand Fiction Award in 1987. She
was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story,
which won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Fiction Prize. Tu won the 2005
Montana New Zealand Book Awards Fiction Prize and the Deutz Medal
for Fiction and Poetry. She was also awarded the Neustadt
International Prize for Literature, Oklahoma, in 2008. Her
children's story The Kuia and the Spider won the Children's Picture
Book of the Year and she has also won the New Zealand Book Awards
For Children and Young Adults Te Kura Pounamu Award. Patricia was
born in Wellington and lives in Plimmerton on ancestral land, in
close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay. Her book Cousins
was made into an internationally-acclaimed film in 2021, directed
by daughter in law Briar Grace-Smith and Ainsley Gardiner.
Robyn Kahukiwa (Illustrator)
Robyn Kahukiwa (Ngati Porou) is a highly regarded New Zealand
contemporary artist and award-winning author and illustrator of
children's books.
Born in Sydney, Australia, she trained as a commercial artist and
came to New Zealand at the age of 19, where she came to be known
for her work drawing on Maori symbolism and mythological figures as
well as for her staunch support of Maori women's rights. She has
written and illustrated 12 books of her own, and illustrated a
number of stories for other New Zealand authors, most notably
Patricia Grace. In 2011 Kahukiwa was awarded Te Tohu Toi Kē a Te
Waka Toi/Making a Difference Award for her contribution to Maori
arts.
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