![]() ![]() ![]() Hulme recalls dreaming about a mute child with strange green eyes. She chose to work in the Motueka tobacco fields instead of going to University and did all sorts of jobs while wrestling with the development of her talent. She relished telling stories and a sunporch in the family home was turned into a study in which, from the age of 12, she wrote poems and stories, some of which appeared in school magazines. Born in Christchurch, the eldest of six children, Keri Hulme was educated at North Brighton Primary and Aranui High Schools. Keri Hulme was of Kāi Tahu and Kāti Māmoe descent. Keri died on Monday 27 December 2021 at her home in Waimate, South Canterbury. Poet, short story writer and novelist Keri Hulme won huge acclaim when her novel The bone people, was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize in 1985, the year in which she was writer in residence at the University of Canterbury. ![]()
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