Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme (Ngāi Tahu) was born in 1947 and died in 2021. She was a novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985, making her the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first winner for a debut work. She held various writing fellowships at several universities, served on the Literary Fund Advisory Committee and on the Indecent Publications Tribunal. The Bone People was selected as the 2014 Great Kiwi Classic.