Jacqueline Sturm

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Jacqueline Sturm was a significant figure in modern Māori literature in New Zealand. She was the first Māori writer to be included in a major anthology of New Zealand short stories in 1966. Sturm's work, alongside other Māori writers like Hone Tuwhare, Witi Ihimaera, Patricia Grace, and Keri Hulme, helped establish Māori voices within the postcolonial English-language literature of New Zealand. These writers, while using English and European literary forms, explored "Maoriness" through subject matter and sensibility. Sturm's contribution was pivotal in bringing Māori perspectives into the broader literary landscape of the nation.1

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New Zealand literature
Modern Maori literature
In 1966 Jacqueline Sturm, wife of the poet James K. Baxter, became the first Maori writer to appear in a major anthology of New Zealand short stories. By that time, Hone Tuwhare, the first Maori poet to make a strong impression in English, had published his first…
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In 1966 Jacqueline Sturm, wife of the poet James K. Baxter, became the first Maori writer to appear in a major anthology of New Zealand short stories. By that time, Hone Tuwhare, the first Maori poet to make a strong impression in English, had published his first…
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