Q&A with Ockham Book Award-winning Rotorua author Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku
Curator, critic, activist, the first female Māori Emeritus Professor from a university – and now the winner of New Zealand's top prize for general non-fiction. Rotorua's Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku (Te Arawa, Waikato, Tūhoe) won the award for her memoir Hine Toa: A at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards last month.
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