Keri Hulme
1947–2021
New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer whose work draws on her Māori and European heritage. Born in Christchurch, she left a law degree at the University of Canterbury after four terms and supported her writing with jobs including tobacco picking, cooking, delivering mail and assistant television directing. Her poetry includes The Silences Between and Strands, and her stories were gathered in Te Kaihau: The Windeater. Her only completed novel was first issued by Spiral, a small women’s collective, in 1984. She died in December 2021. The Bone People won the 1985 Booker Prize.
Works
- The Bone People (1984)
Prizes
- The Bone People — The Booker Prize 1985: Winner, Shortlist