Tina Makereti interviewed
The PhD graduate and IIML course convenor talks about her debut novel.
Tina Makereti is an award-winning short fiction and non fiction writer, whose first novel, Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (Random House) , was published this year. She has an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University. She is of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Maniapoto, Pākehā and Moriori descent.
From July to October 2014, Tina will convene the CREW 256: Special Topic: Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing Workshop at the IIML.
In a recent interview with the Book Council's Rachel O'Neill, she talks about writing Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings, and its central themes of loss, change, ethnic identity and belonging.
'The whole novel was really a working through of my central questions around identity and ethnicity and culture, so I guess the story itself was a way of answering this question, which I found couldn’t be answered any other way.'
Read the interview on Booknotes Unbound
Applications for CREW 256 close on 21 June.
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