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    Godfrey Bowen

    Bowen helped establish sheep shearing as a legitimate sport and a form of entertainment. He was one of the inaugural inductees into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

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Keri Hulme’s Bone people wins Booker Prize

1985 Keri Hulme’s Bone people wins Booker Prize

By 1985 Keri Hulme had won several New Zealand awards for her writing. But the decision to award her first novel, The bone people, the Booker Prize was a surprise to literary critics, bookies and Hulme alike.  more...

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  • Keri Hulme (NZ Book Council)
  • Canterbury writers: Keri Hulme (Chch City Libraries)
  • The Bone People (Wikipedia)
  • Booker Prize (Wikipedia)
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