Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme¿s novels, short stories and poems are widely published. Her novel, The Bone People, gained national and global recognition when it won the 1984 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and the Booker Prize in 1985. Maori, Celtic and Norse mythology, in homage to her mixed heritage, are threaded through all of her writing. She has published short stories and poems in several book-length collections, as well as journals and anthologies. Her long story ¿Te Kaihau/The Windeater¿ appears in Nine New Zealand Novellas (Reed, 2005).