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Hulme, Keri
Born: 1947 AD
Currently alive, at 61 years of age.
Nationality: New Zealand
Categories: Authors, Novelists, Writers
Currently alive, at 61 years of age.
Nationality: New Zealand
Categories: Authors, Novelists, Writers
1947 - Keri Hulme, born on the 9th of March in Christchurch, in New Zealand's South Island. She is a New Zealand writer.
1967 - She began studying for an honours law degree at the University of Canterbury.
1972 - She decided to begin writing full-time, but, despite family support, was forced to go back to work nine months later.
1978 - She was a writer-in-residence at Otago University.
1984 - She continued working on her novel The Bone People, ultimately published in February.
- The novel, returned by several publishers before being accepted by the Spiral Collective, won the 84' New Zealand Book Award for Fiction.
1985 - Received the the Booker Prize.
- A residence writer at the University of Canterbury.
1996 - She has been the Patron of the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand.
1967 - She began studying for an honours law degree at the University of Canterbury.
1972 - She decided to begin writing full-time, but, despite family support, was forced to go back to work nine months later.
1978 - She was a writer-in-residence at Otago University.
1984 - She continued working on her novel The Bone People, ultimately published in February.
- The novel, returned by several publishers before being accepted by the Spiral Collective, won the 84' New Zealand Book Award for Fiction.
1985 - Received the the Booker Prize.
- A residence writer at the University of Canterbury.
1996 - She has been the Patron of the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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