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The
2003 Award
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Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Penguin (NZ) ISBN 0141004193 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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is conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a 'secret for life,
the one to die with'. But he realises that if he is to acknowledge and claim
his daughter, the secret will have to be told. 'The Sisters' are threatening
to drag the whanau through the courts. But why? What is really going on?
Dogside Story presents a powerful picture of Maori in modern times.
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Patricia Grace's Waiarki, a collection of stories first published in 1975, won the Hubert Church prose award for best first book. She has written several other collections of stories and novels, her most recently published novel being Baby No-eyes (1998). Her second novel, Potiki (1986) won the fiction section of the New Zealand Book Awards as well as the LiBeraturpreis from Frankfurt, Germany. She has also written a number of children's books, including the award-winning The Kuia and the Spider. Patricia was born in Wellington in 1937. She lives in Plimmerton on the ancestral land of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa in close proximity to her home marae at Hongoeka Bay. |
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Find out more about the author on the following websites: Synopsis
and review of Dogside Story |
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