Witi Ihimaera
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Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler is a New Zealand author. Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people were ignored or mischaracter
Ihimaera in November 2015
Ihimaera in Frankfurt in October 2012.
Plaque dedicated to Witi Ihimaera in Dunedin, on the Writers' Walk on the Octagon
Mahana (film)
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Mahana is a 2016 New Zealand period drama film directed by Lee Tamahori and written by John Collee, based on Witi Ihimaera's 2005 novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies. It stars Temuera Morrison, Nancy
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…about Maori rural life in the 1950s", and Ihimaera himself has said he was intending to write a Māori Western. The novel was adapted into the 2016 film Mahana by Lee Tamahori (released as The Patriarch outside of New Zealand). In 1996, he published Nights in the Gardens of Spain, a semi-autobiographical novel…
Mahana