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Matariki Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Hinerangi) is an award-winning poet and filmmaker. She's also a curator of the Auckland Writer's Festival alongside her father, writer and director, Michael Bennett, and a founding member of the bilingual Slam Poetry Collective, Nga Hinepukorero, which was honoured with the CNZ Pirere Award in 2021.
📅 Born {"en-US":1964} in New Zealand
Michael Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue) is an award-winning screenwriter, director and author. His first book, a non-fiction work telling the true story of New Zealand’s worst miscarriage of justice, In Dark Places, won Best Non-Fiction Book at the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards. Michael's second book, Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas, is a time-travel graphic novel co-authored with Ant Sang.
Sarah Bennett is a travel writer, editor and publisher based in Wellington. She is the author of numerous guidebooks including The New Zealand Trampers' Handbook (Craig Potton Publishing, 2007; 2010), Let's Go Camping (Random House, 2009) and several Lonely Planet New Zealand titles. She also writes travel features for media outlets at home and abroad.
Joe Bennett was born in Brighton and since leaving Cambridge University has taught English in a variety of countries, including Canada, Spain and New Zealand. He now lives in Lyttelton with his dogs, cat and chickens.
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Trevor Bentley has a long-standing interest in the interaction of Māori and Pākehā in 19th century New Zealand. His primary interest is the Europeans who entered Māori tribal societies voluntarily or as captives. This is Dr Bentley’s eighth book to explore this subject and era.
Trevor Bentley has a PhD in history in has had a long-standing interest in the interaction of Maori and Pakeha in pre-Treaty New Zealand and the Europeans who entered Maori tribal societies voluntarily and involuntarily. He has done significant research on New Zealand history pre-Treaty of Waitangi, and on "culture crossers". He has written four books on the subject: Pakeha Maori, Captured by Maori, Cannibal Jack and most recently Pakeha Slaves, Maori Masters. He is an adult education director for four Waikato colleges and is a member of the NZ Military History Society.
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