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Keri Hulme

1947 - 2021

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Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme (9 March 1947 – 27 December 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985; she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for a debut novel. Hulme's writing explores themes of isolation, postcolonial and multicultural identity, and Māori, Celtic, and Norse mythology. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Keri Hulme is the 5,609th most popular writer (up from 6,010th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from New Zealand and the 6th most popular New Zealander Writer.

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Among writers, Keri Hulme ranks 5,609 out of 7,302. Before her are William Martin Leake, Pietro Citati, José Gil Fortoul, Lőrinc Szabó, Riccardo Bacchelli, and Mari Jungstedt. After her are Ivan Dmitriev, Jorge Icaza Coronel, Muthuswami Dikshitar, Irawati Karve, Ludwig Ganghofer, and Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh.

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Among people born in 1947, Keri Hulme ranks 657. Before her are Gennadiy Seleznyov, Meredith Baxter, Hal Abelson, Barbara Ferrell, Kim Darby, and Guy Siner. After her are Mercedes Sampietro, Vladimir Ilyin, Mary Kay Place, Patrick Chesnais, Olivier Rolin, and José Luis Cuerda. Among people deceased in 2021, Keri Hulme ranks 510. Before her are Vladimir Kiselyov, Sarah Harding, Chris Dickerson, Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, Michael K. Williams, and Pepi Bader. After her are Leonid Bartenyev, Sabine Schmitz, Tim Bogert, James Michael Tyler, Zlatko Saračević, and Gábor Novák.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Keri Hulme ranks 81 out of 303. Before her are Walter Buller (1838), Lee Tamahori (1950), Jonah Lomu (1975), Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics#Field hockey (null), Jenny Shipley (1952), and John Gorton (1911). After her are Andrew Adamson (1966), Peter O'Leary (1972), John Nicholson (1941), David Lange (1942), Dudley Storey (1939), and Hugh Anderson (1936).

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Among WRITERS In New Zealand

Among writers born in New Zealand, Keri Hulme ranks 6. Before her are Katherine Mansfield (1888), Richard Curtis (1956), Janet Frame (1924), Ngaio Marsh (1895), and Hugh Walpole (1884). After her are Margaret Mahy (1936), Philippa Boyens (2000), Anthony McCarten (1961), and Ruth Park (1917).

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