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name: Whiti Hereaka
about: Whiti Hereaka is an award-winning novelist and playwright of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tuhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui and Pākehā descent, based in Wellington, New Zealand.She teaches Creative Writing at Massey University. She is the author of four novels:  The Graphologist’s Apprentice, and the award-winning YA novels  Bugs,  Legacy, and her retelling of  Kurangaituku. Legacy won the New Zealand Children’s and Young Adult Book Award for YA fiction in 2019 and Kurangaituku was awarded the 2022 Jann Medlicott Acorn Award for fiction, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and was long listed for the Dublin Literary Award, 2023.She was also co-editor of  Pūrākau Whiti Hereaka is an award-winning novelist and playwright of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tuhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui and Pākehā descent, based in Wellington, New Zealand.She teaches Creative Writing at Massey University. She is the author of four novels:  The Graphologist’s Apprentice, and the award-winning YA novels  Bugs,  Legacy, and her retelling of  Kurangaituku. Legacy won the New Zealand Children’s and Young Adult Book Award for YA fiction in 2019 and Kurangaituku was awarded the 2022 Jann Medlicott Acorn Award for fiction, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and was long listed for the Dublin Literary Award, 2023.She was also co-editor of  Pūrākau ...more