Keri Hulme
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Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme 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; she was the first New
Hulme, 1983
Hulme with a catch of whitebait in 1983
Ōkārito Lagoon
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Ōkārito Lagoon is a coastal lagoon on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It is located 130 kilometres south of Hokitika, and covers an area of about 3,240 hectares, making it the largest un
Keri Hulme
…became the main character of the bone people. In 1973, Hulme won a land ballot and became the owner of a plot in the remote coastal settlement of Ōkārito in south Westland, on the South Island of New Zealand. She built an octagonal house on the land and spent most of her adult life (almost 40 years…
Ōkārito Lagoon and the ocean
View across Ōkārito Lagoon
The lagoon from the south, on Ōkārito Trig
Kayaking in the lagoon