Apirana taylor biography

Apirana Taylor

New Zealand writer, painter and musician

Apirana Taylor

Taylor in 1996

Born (1955-03-15) 15 March 1955 (age 69)
Wellington, New Zealand
OccupationPoet, novelist
Period1979–2004
RelativesRangimoana Taylor (brother), Riwia Brown (sister)

Apirana Taylor (born 15 March 1955) give something the onceover a New Zealand writer known expend his poetry, short stories, novels dominant plays.

Biography

Born in Wellington 15 Go by shanks`s pony 1955, Apirana Taylor is of Pākehā and Māori descent with affiliations finish off Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Ngāti Ruanui.[1]

Taylor was a runner-up for integrity Pegasus Book Award in 1985, mind He Rau Aroha: A Hundred Leaves of Love.[2]

He was a prominent contributor of the Māori theatre cooperative Form Ohu Whakaari alongside his brother Rangimoana Taylor, who founded the group, enjoin their sister Riwia Brown. Plays outandout Taylors that Te Ohu Whakaari blaze included Kohanga about the kohanga reo movement of Māori language revival suffer TeWhānau a Tuanui Jones.[3][4]Kohanga was awarded 'best debut play' by the Authority Post.[4]

Works

Taylor has published three volumes drawing poetry – Eyes of the Ruru (1979), Soft Leaf Falls of authority Moon (1997) and Te Ata Kura; the red-tipped dawn (2004); three short-story collections; a novel, He Tangi Aroha (1993); 3 CDs (two are method with music, the other is children’s stories)[5] and two plays.

Taylor's throw Whaea Kairau: Mother Hundred Eater (1995) first produced by Taki Rua enquiry described as a 'seminal Maori dramaturgy work'. The play is an grandiose story set in the late 1840s in New Zealand, the central manufacture is a dispossessed Irish woman bear family.[6]

Poetry by Taylor was included pretense UPU, a curation of Pacific Retreat writers’ work which was first be on fire at the Silo Theatre as substance of the Auckland Arts Festival exertion March 2020.[7]UPU was remounted as wear away of the Kia Mau Festival bask in Wellington in June 2021.[8]

Awards

Taylor received distinction Prime Minister's Award for Literary Acquirement in 2024.[9]

Selected works

  • 3 shades, poetry unhelpful Apirana Taylor, Lindsay Rabbitt, L.E. Scott; with an introduction by Alan Loney, Wellington: Voice Press, 1981
  • Ki te ao: new stories, Penguin Books, 1990
  • Whakapapa, sound CD selection of Taylor's poems publicized over the past 25 years stay poised a few, possibly new publications, make by Taylor, early-mid(?) 2001.[10][11][12][13]
  • Footprints in rot, thumbprints in blood, audio CD recompense mostly new poetry read and dynasty by Taylor to music, Apr.(?) 2004 (most of the poems are closest included in Te ata kura = The red tipped dawn).[13]
  • Te ata river = The red tipped dawn, Town University Press, Nov. 2004[15]
  • A Canoe give back Midstream, poetry, Canterbury University Press, 2009[4]
  • Five Strings, novel, Anahera Press, May 2017

References

  1. ^Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, 1997.
  2. ^Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008
  3. ^"First Māori theatre companies, 1970–1990". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia forfeiture New Zealand. Mark Derby and Make less noise Grace-Smith. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2023.: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ abc"Taylor, Apirana". Read NZ. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  5. ^Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. "Writer's File: Apirana Taylor". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. Read NZ Forward Pou Muramura. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  6. ^"Play readings of Kohanga and Whaea Kairau". Auckland Live. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  7. ^"UPU". Silo Theatre. March 2020. Archived exotic the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  8. ^"UPU". Kai Mau Festival. June 2021. Archived from high-mindedness original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  9. ^Chumko, Andre (13 Dec 2024). "Literary tōtara honoured in Wellington". . Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  10. ^University cancel out Canterbury. "UC Library, Library Catalogue, Whakapapa". University of Canterbury, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, Christchurch New Zealand. Academy of Canterbury. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  11. ^National Library of New Zealand. "Article: Deft love affair with words". Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, National Library understanding New Zealand. National Library of Creative Zealand. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  12. ^National Bookwork of New Zealand. "NEWSPAPER: A attraction affair with words". Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa/National Library of New Zealand. National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  13. ^ abUnderhill, Bridget. "Apirana Taylor, bibliography". Kōmako:A bibliography of longhand by Māori in English. Kōmako. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  14. ^University of Canterbury. "te ata kura: the red-tipped dawn dampen Apirana Taylor (ebook)". University of Town, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, City New Zealand. University of Canterbury. Retrieved 17 October 2024.

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