Tag: Literature
Outpouring of grief following death of acclaimed Samoan poet and writer
RNZ Pacific
Tributes are pouring in for an acclaimed American Samoan poet and teacher who was murdered last Saturday in Apia allegedly by a fellow...
A tribute to a Pacific visionary – remembering Epeli Hau’ofa
By Aisha Azeemah in Suva
With the lights on one of his sneakers blinking as he ran through the gallery, a little boy looked up...
Auckland University to award Tongan academic, author ‘Epeli Hau’ofa honorary doctorate
By Philip Cass
The University of Auckland is to bestow a posthumous honorary doctorate on the late Tongan academic, author and sociologist Professor ‘Epeli Hau’ofa.
Hau’ofa...
An important book exposing problems immigrants – especially Muslims – face...
REVIEW: By Adam Brown
How to be a Bad Muslim is a collection of 19 short essays by Mohamed Hassan, an award-winning poet and an...
An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
In late 1913 one of the most famous men in Britain arrived in Pago Pago.
Rupert Brooke, 26, was...
NZ grants Kurdish-Iranian author Behrouz Boochani refugee status
By RNZ News
Immigration New Zealand has confirmed that Behrouz Boochani has been given refugee status in New Zealand.
Boochani has been in New Zealand since...
Iran refugee detained in PNG wins Australia’s richest literary prize
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
An Iranian asylum-seeker detained in Papua New Guinea under Australian asylum laws has won Australia's most valuable literary prize for a...
Max Lane brings millennial generation closer to works of Pramoedya
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk from Surya Malang, Indonesia
The name Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's foremost writer who was born in 1925 and died in 2006,...
Gujarati migrant theatre group keeps mother tongue alive in NZ
By Ami Dhabuwala
Migrants from Gujarat who are living in Auckland have set up a theatre and literature group to celebrate their mother tongue.
The group’s...
