Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
New Zealand poet, playwright and novelist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alistair Te Ariki Campbell ONZM (25 June 1925 – 16 August 2009) was a poet, playwright, and novelist. Born in the Cook Islands, he was the son of a Cook Island Māori mother and a Pākehā father, who both died when he was young, leading to him growing up in a New Zealand orphanage. He became a prolific poet and writer, with a lyrical and romantic style tempered by a darkness borne out of his difficult childhood and struggles with mental health as a young adult. Although he wrote about Māori culture from his earliest works, after a revelatory return to the Cook Islands in 1976, his later works increasingly featured Pasifika culture and themes. He received a number of notable awards during his lifetime including the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry and Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement, and is considered one of New Zealand's foremost poets as well as a pioneer of Pasifika literature written in English.
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell | |
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Born | (1925-06-25)25 June 1925 Rarotonga, Cook Islands |
Died | 16 August 2009(2009-08-16) (aged 84) Wellington, New Zealand |
Occupation | Poet, playwright, novelist |
Literary movement | Wellington Group |
Spouses | |
Children | 5 |
Website | |
poems.nz |