投稿者: Eva Corlett in Wellington
Māori women are represented in every category and two Māori writers are among the four shortlisted for the fiction prizeFrom an acerbic novel about queer Māori-Russian-Catalan siblings to a self-published portrait of 100 indigenous women, the books in …
New Zealand ends isolation rules for vaccinated travellers from Australia as transmission rates soar
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