Ancestry

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-77550-037-7
Verlag: HUIA Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 240 mm

Albert Wendt’s new collection of short stories explores the nature of family, tradition and culture through the eyes of those seemingly caught between the realities of modern contemporary life and the ancestral ties of their heritage. With a deft touch, he draws us into his characters’ lives and with equal parts wisdom and wit, he exposes them to us. This is a masterful meditation on the ties that bind people together across time and place.

The unpublished manuscript of Ancestry was overall winner of the University of the South Pacific Press Literature Prize in 2011.

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Acclaimed Samoan-born novelist Albert Wendt has been an influential figure in the developments that have shaped New Zealand and Pacific literature since the 1970s, writing numerous works of fiction and several volumes of poetry, and editing notable anthologies of Pacific literature.

Albert Wendt was awarded the 1980 Wattie Book of the Year for 'Leaves of the Banyan Tree' and a Montana Book Award for 'Whetu Moana' in 2004.

In 1992, Albert Wendt's novel, ‘Ola', won the S-E Asia and Pacific Region of the Commonwealth Book Prize. He is acknowledged internationally as one of Samoa's, New Zealand's, and the Pacific's major novelists and poets. He has been an important influence in the development of the indigenous novel around the world, over the past thirty years. His work has been translated into many languages and is read and taught throughout the world. He has been awarded many honours and won many literary prizes.

Two of his books, 'Sons for the Return Home' and 'Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree', have been made into full-length feature films.

He was Professor of New Zealand and Pacific Literature at the University of Auckland from 1988 to 2006, and held the Citizens' Chair at the University of Hawaii from 2004 to 2008. He is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Auckland, and is writing and painting full-time.