For Someone I Love: A Collection Of Writing

Author: Arapera Blank

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  • : $40.00 NZD
  • : 9780473299187
  • : Anton Blank Ltd
  • : Anton Blank Ltd
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  • : July 2015
  • : New Zealand
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  • : Arapera Blank
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  • : Hardback
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  • : Photography by Pius Blank
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  • : 158
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Barcode 9780473299187
9780473299187

Description

Arapera Blank was one of New Zealand’s first bilingual poets and the first Maori writer to win a Katherine Mansfield Award in 1959.


This extraordinary hard-cover book showcases her poetry, short fiction and essays written over thirty years, and includes photography from her Swiss husband Pius Blank. Both now deceased the book is a tribute to a glamorous aesthetic and vision for biculturalism and feminism.

Author description

Arapera Hineira Kaa Blank was a Māori poet and teacher. Born and raised in Rangitukia in the northeast of New Zealand's North Island, she was one of a small group of Māori writers writing in English during the 1950s. In 1959 she was awarded a special Katherine Mansfield Memorial award for her essay Ko taku kumara hei wai-u mo taku whanau. She was married to Swiss-born Pius Blank for 44 years and had two children, Marino and Anton. For the last ten years of her working life Arapera taught te reo at Auckland Girls' Grammar School where the girls knew her as Ma Blank.