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Rangatira

Name: Rangatira
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SKU: 9781869409159
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By Paula Morris

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He pukapuka hītori i whakawhiwhia ki ngā tini tohu – kua whakaputaina ki te reo Māori.

An award-winning historical novel – now published in te reo Māori.

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‘He manawarū, he tāuteute hoki tēnei pukapuka e āta whakaahua ana i te wā koroniara o Aotearoa, i te wā Wikitoria hoki o Ingarangi, mā roto i te tirohanga a tētahi rangatira nō Ngāti Wai. E mīharo rawa atu ana te mahi a Paula Morris ki te whakamārama i te ao o tōna tupuna, o Paratene Te Manu, me te aha, kua whai reo anō te rangatira rā e tūturu ana, e mārama ana hoki. I tino hākoakoa te ngākau i tēnei pukapuka, ā, ka kaha tūtohua ki ngā tāngata katoa o Aotearoa.’ — Carol Hirschfeld

Ko Rangatira, he pukapuka nā Paula Morris, te toa o te New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction i te tau 2012. Koia tētahi o ngā pukapuka hirahira rawa atu o Aotearoa, ā, kua whakamāoritia tuatahitia nei e Hinewai Pōmare.

‘He pukapuka tēnei kua āta whakairotia . . . Kua eke mārire te whakaahuatanga mai o Paratene ki te taumata, ko tana reo he hūmārie, he tūturu mārika anō hoki.’ — John McCrystal, New Zealand Listener

‘This is an intriguing and engrossing novel that vividly brings to life colonial New Zealand and Victorian England through the eyes of a Ngāti Wai rangatira. Paula Morris has done an extraordinary job in capturing the life of her tupuna, Paratene Te Manu, and gives him a voice that is at once authentic and insightful. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it to all New Zealanders.’ — Carol Hirschfeld

Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction in 2012, Paula Morris’s Rangatira is one of the great New Zealand novels, here translated into te reo Māori for the first time by Hinewai Pōmare.

‘[An] adroitly told historical novel . . . Paratene [is] a triumph of characterisation, his voice genial and flawlessly authentic.’ — John McCrystal, New Zealand Listener

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781869409159

Publisher: Auckland University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 October 2026

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Auckland University Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 300g

Pages: 88

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About the Author

He kaituhi i te pukapuka, i te pakiwaitara poto, i te tuhinga roa hoki a Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Manuhiri), ā, kua whakawhiwhia ia ki ngā tini tohu.

Tekau ngā tau i mahi ai a Paula i Rānana me Niu Ioka, tuatahi ake hei kaiwhakatairanga, hei kaiārahi kamupene hoki i roto i te ao puoro. Kātahi ia ka tahuri ki te mahi hei mātanga waitohu, hei kaituhituhi rauemi whakatairanga hoki.

Kua whakawhiwhia a Paula ki ētahi tohu mātauranga nō ētahi whare wānanga o Aotearoa, o Ingarangi, o Amerika hoki, tae atu rā ki te tohu tākutatanga nō te Whare Wānanga o Ioka, me tētahi tohu MFA nō te Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Ka whakahaere ia i te hōtaka Master of Creative Writing i Waipapa Taumata Rau.

Nāna i whakatū a Te Whare Mātātuhi o Aotearoa me Wharerangi, te whārangi ipurangi mō ngā kaituhi Māori. He mema ia nō ngā poari o New Zealand Book Awards Trust, o Crystal Arts Trust me Mātātuhi Foundation.

He maha ngā karahipi tūranga ā-ao i whakawhiwhia ki a ia, pērā i te Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, ā, i te tau 2019 i whakahōnorehia ia hei mema mō Te Kāhui Tohu Hiranga, i āna mahi e hāngai ana ki te ao mātātuhi.

He uri a Hinewai Pōmare nō Te Rarawa, nō Ngā Puhi, nō Ngāti Pūkenga, nō Ngāi Te Rangi me te iwi Tarara. Kua whakawhiwhia ia ki ētahi tohu mātauranga mō te hauora, mō te pūtaiao, mō te pakihi hoki nō Waipapa Taumata Rau, nō Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau, nō Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, nō Te Herenga Waka hoki, ā, he Ika ā-Whiro ia nō Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo. Ko ia te kaiwhakahaere ā-rohe mō te raki ki Te Hiringa Hauora, ā, ko āna kaupapa matua ko te mana taurite o te ao hauora, ko te kaiārahitanga, me ngā pūnaha hauora. Kua riro i a Hinewai tana raihana whakawhiti reo ā-tuhi, ā-waha anō hoki.

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