{"id":44408,"date":"2022-05-11T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/11\/whiti-hereaka-wins-new-zealands-ockham-fiction-prize-for-novel-subverting-maori-myth"},"modified":"2022-05-11T18:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T09:00:30","slug":"whiti-hereaka-wins-new-zealands-ockham-fiction-prize-for-novel-subverting-maori-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44408","title":{"rendered":"Whiti Hereaka wins New Zealand\u2019s Ockham fiction prize for novel subverting M\u0101ori myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurangaituku, &#8216;an epic poem of a novel\u2019, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn prize at a ceremony that delivered \u2018loads of surprises\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A novel subverting a M\u0101ori myth has taken home New Zealand\u2019s most prestigious writing prize at this year\u2019s Ockham New Zealand book awards.<\/p>\n<p>Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka, which draws on the M\u0101ori legend of Hatupatu and the Bird-Woman but tells it from the perspective of the tale\u2019s traditional monster Kurangaituku, has won the $60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn prize for fiction.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/11\/whiti-hereaka-wins-new-zealands-ockham-fiction-prize-for-novel-subverting-maori-myth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurangaituku, &#8216;an epic poem of a novel\u2019, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn prize at a ceremony that delivered \u2018loads of surprises\u2019A novel subverting a M\u0101ori myth has taken home New Zealand\u2019s most prestigious writing prize at this year\u2019s Ockham New Zealand b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44421,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44408\/revisions\/44421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}