Homeplaces keri hulme biography

Homeplaces Three Coasts of the South Coast of New Zealand By Keri Hulme, Robin Morrison.

Homeplaces Three Coasts of the South Coast of New Zealand By Keri Hulme, Robin Morrison.

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland , 1989, First Edition.

Very good hardback with jacket, a little rubbing to edges, inscription to half-title page, pages excellent, minor marks. Jacket has some shelf-wear and fading.

A descriptive autobiography by Keri Hulme, winner of the Booker prize in 1985, of her "homeplaces". For Hulme, these are three places in her native New Zealand: Okarito, a former goldrush settlement on the West Coast; Moeraki, site of ancient habitations; and Stewart Island on the southernmost tip. Keri Hulme is also the author of "Bone People", which won the Booker Prize in 1985, and "The Windeater".

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Homeplaces - Three Coasts (Okarito, Moeraki, Rakiura)of the South Island of New Zealand Words by Keri Hulme and Photographs by Robin Morrison Hardback, 1st edition 1989, 131pages, very good condition"A descriptive autobiography by Keri Hulme, winner of the Booker prize in 1985, of her "homeplaces". For Hulme, these are three places in her native New Zealand: Okarito, a former goldrush settlement on the West Coast; Moeraki, site of ancient habitations; and Stewart Island on the southernmost tip. Keri Hulme is also the author of "Bone People", which won the Booker Prize in 1985, and "The Windeater"."

ISBN-13: 9780340508312

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Keri Hulme

New Zealand writer (1947–2021)

Keri Hulme

Hulme, 1983

BornKerry Ann Ruhi Hulme
(1947-03-09)9 March 1947
Christchurch, New Zealand
Died27 December 2021(2021-12-27) (aged 74)
Waimate, New Zealand
Pen nameKai Tainui
OccupationAuthor
Notable worksthe bone people (1984)

Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme (9 March 1947 – 27 December 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985;[1] she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for a debut novel. Hulme's writing explores themes of isolation, postcolonial and multicultural identity, and Māori, Celtic, and Norse mythology.[2][3]

Early life

Hulme was born on 9 March 1947 in Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand.[4][5] The daughter of John William Hulme, a carpenter, and Mary Ann Miller, a credit manager, she was the eldest of six children.[6&#

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