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Rowley Habib is a playwright, poet and fiction writer who had his first work published in New Zealand and overseas in the 1950s. Rowley was born in the Taupo region in 1933 and is of Lebanese and Ngati Tuwharetoa descent. Since the early 1950s he has published stories, poems and articles. In 1967 he formed his own theatre company, ‘Te Ika A Maui Players’, which toured his play "Death Of The Land" for three years. He has written an unpublished novel, and has written and had produced plays for stage, television and radio, as well as documentaries.
Rowley has won the Maori Affairs Writers Award and the Feltex Award for Best TV Script and has been a recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship Now that he is retired in Te Hikuwai, Taupo, he is able to write to his heart’s content.
Rowley was a touring writer with the inaugural "On the Bus" Contemporary Maori Writers tour in 2001 and was guest writer once again in 2004 when 'On the Bus: Flat Out Brown' toured the Taupo region with the Lake Taupo Arts Festival.
This first comprehensive study of the Treaty deals with its place in NZ history, the several signings and textual differences, the land rights issue, the 1860s wars of sovereignty and the Maori struggle to secure some autonomy and control over resources.
Stories and poems from the first generation of Maori writers to make use of literary forms that are European in origin, including Hone Tuwhare, Witi Ihimaera, RowleyHabib, Arapera Blank, S.M. Mead, Harry Dansey, Patricia Grace.
Cover slightly faded & worn on edges & corners, bumped on ends of spine.
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