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Award-winning novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Pākehā) won a NZ Children & Young Adults Book Award for Legacy. Her novel, Kurangaituku, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham NZ Book Awards.

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