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Why was Jacqueline Sturmās appearance in a major short-story anthology significant?
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Front cover of the Spiral Press first edition of Keri Hulme's The Bone People (1983).
Jacqueline Sturmās appearance in a major anthology of New Zealand short stories in 1966 was significant because she became the first Maori writer to be included in such a collection. This milestone occurred during a period when there was little connection between the classical Maori tradition and the development of postcolonial English-language literature in New Zealand.1