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In the photo above: We resume our series of photos of authors nominated for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand national book awards with this portrait of Nina Mingya Powles. Her collection of poems Magnolia 木蘭 (published by the excellent Seraph Press) is shortlisted for the poetry prize. From a review in online cultural site londongrip.co.uk: Powles comes from New Zealand and from mixed heritage. Her mother was from Shanghai where Powles recently spent 18 months, studying Mandarin and writing poems and prose as she learned its languages, flavours, culture, colours and sounds. After moving to London in 2018 she f
New Zealand s Richest Short Story Prize Launches With Acclaimed Writer Patricia Grace As Chief Judge For 2021
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The Shoeshine column is the
NBR’s longest-running feature. It was launched during the euphoria leading up to the October 1987 sharemarket crash, which hit New Zealand harder than most.
It was inspired by the legendary story about how, in the late summer of 1929, a shoeshine boy gave stock tips to Joseph Kennedy, a financier and father of John F Kennedy. Being a wise investor, Kennedy thought, “If shoeshine boys are giving stock tips, then it’s time to get out of the market.”
Kennedy made a killing by selling his stocks before Wall Street collapsed in October 1929, eventually leading to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Why has it taken so long? That s a question I haven t been able to get out of my mind.
Cousins is the third feature film in history to be directed by wāhine Māori. The first was
Mauri by Merata Mita. That was 32 years ago – before I was even born. The second was
Waru in 2017, a feature film made up of eight ten-minute short films written and directed by Māori women filmmakers. I have spent the last ten years telling stories as a writer and journalist, doing my best to decolonise the space I am in, while at the same time advocating for sovereignty over our stories. As Māori, we need more of our stories told, but more importantly, we need to be telling our own stories.