Congratulations to Hirini Kaa and Alison Jones, with their books Te Hāhi Mihinare – the Māori Anglican Church and This Pākehā Life: An Unsettled Memoir recognised in the Ockham NZ Book Awards shortlist!
From the Ockham judges:
Te Hāhi Mihinare is both a history of an institution and a corrective for ‘fatal impact’ narratives in which Māori are presented as the passive victims of colonisation; Hirini Kaa shows how iwi adapted the new religion to make it their own.
This Pākehā Life is a multi-stranded memoir that explores 'what it means, for her, to be Pākehā: a non-Māori New Zealander who belongs nowhere else. It is a coming-of-age story, a family story, and a story of place.'
The Ockham awards ceremony is scheduled for 12 May 2021.