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Patricia Grace turns her pen on herself


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 i ....

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Whenua Tapu Works Set To Start


Thursday, 11 February 2021, 3:51 pm
Building work will begin shortly to upgrade the chapel
and crematorium at Whenua Tapu Cemetery in
Porirua.
This treasured community asset was built in
1982 and has had very little done to it since then. Upgrade
works to occur include earthquake strengthening, a new roof,
asbestos remediation, painting, bathrooms, and family
area.
The work is expected to take about six months to
complete.
The cremator has reached the end of its
useful life and the resource consent to operate it runs out
in June. Cremators are not manufactured in New Zealand, so a
new purpose-built one has been sourced from ....

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