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We’re here to talk about her memoir, From the Centre: A Writer’s Life,​ which will be launched at the Auckland Writers​ Festival, where she is one of the guest speakers. Grace is one of New Zealand/Aotearoa’s most celebrated Māori fiction authors, who, over five decades, has won national and international awards for her work, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature​ (considered the most prestigious literary prize after the Nobel). She was made​ a distinguished companion​ of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature in 2007. Grace is known for being self-effacing and it was her publisher, Harriet Allan, of Penguin Random House, who suggested she write a memoir. In an email, Allan describes the importance of Grace’s work: “While conveying a compelling story, Patricia has a powerful ability to enable the reader see the world through her character’s eyes, to open up diverse issues to make us see their human implications,

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