Witi Ihimaera

Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler is a New Zealand author Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Maaori people were ignored or mischaracterised in literature He was the first Maaori writer to publish a collection of short stories, with Pounamu, Pounamu (1972), and the first to publish a novel, with Tangi (1973) After his early works, he