Nga Whakamaoritanga

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ISBN: 9781776920266
Title: Nga Whakamaoritanga
Author: KELLY HEMI / FRIEL BRIAN

‘It is not the literal past, the \”facts\” of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language,’ wrote Brian Friel (1929-2015). Indeed, there is no other literary text that embodies the complex relationship between language, identity, and power more directly than his play Translations, set in 1833. There is, however, another text that does: the founding document of Aotearoa, The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840. ‘It is thus fitting that the story told in such a smart and smarting way by the great Irish playwright can now be read in te reo Maori. Hemi Kelly, one of this country’s foremost translators, and Peter Ryan, the first Ambassador of Ireland to Aotearoa, deserve our whakawhetai and our whakamihi for guiding the waka of multilingual and multicultural understanding from the Atlantic to the Pacific.’ -Marco Sonzogni, New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation, Te Herenga Waka

Author Biography: He kaiako reo Maori, he kaituhi, he kaiwhakawhiti reo hoki a Hemi Kelly (no Ngati Maniapoto, no Ngati Tahu-Ngati Whaoa). Nana i tuhi te pukapuka A Maori Word A Day, ka whai mai ko A Maori Phrase A Day. Nana i whakamaori te pakimaero poto o Sleeps Standing na Witi Ihimaero, te pakimaero o The Alchemist na Paulo Coelho, a, nana hoki tenei whakaari o Translations na Brian Friel i whakamaori. Ko Hemi te Kaiwhakahaere o Tautika Ltd, he kaitohutohu reo Maori ia, a, ko ia hoki te kaihanga me te kaiwhakahaere i nga pae ako a-ipurangi o Everyday Maori.

Format: Trade Paper
Publication date: 11/08/2022
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