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Simon Rowe left the green hills of New Zealand for the big sky country of Australia when he was sixteen years old. At twenty-one, he set out for the world and somehow managed to fund his travels by photographing and writing about them. He has lived in Japan for more than twenty-five years, winning numerous awards for his short fiction and screenplays, including Good Night Papa (2013 Asian Short Screenplay Contest) and Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere (2021 Best Indie Book Award). His stories about Japanese life and culture have appeared in The Paris Review, the New York Times, TIME (Asia), the South China Morning Post, The Straits Times, The Australian, and the Australian Financial Review. He has a black belt in iaido (sword quick-drawing), a passion for sea kayaking, and an itch for adventure he never seems able to scratch.

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When I was young the school gave up on me, telling my parents that I would never learn to read and write. So, my parents got a private tutor who soon also have up and said the same thing. They must have wondered what they had adopted. My mother painstakingly taught me herself. I recently found huge books with massive hand drawn pictures, that she had made in an effort to help me read and write. I also recently found one made by my artist grandmother with stunning paintings which I am also turning into a book. Long story short I can read and write. I wrote this when I was younger after watching my dad chase a fly around the house with his rolled-up newspaper. When my father was diagnosed with cancer I decided to have it made into a book to give to him for Christmas. I also dedicated it to my mum as without her I wouldn't have even been able to write this biography.

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Author E mohio nuitia ana a J.K. ROWLING hei kaituhi mo nga pukapuka e whitu o Hare Pota, i whakaputaina ra i te tau 1997 ki te tau 2007. Kua neke atu i te 500 miriona nga tanga o nga haerenga matatoa o Hare ratou ko Rana, ko Heremaiani, e matatu nei te rongonuitanga, kua neke atu i te waru tekau nga reo i whakawhitingia ai nga korero, a, e waru nga hurihanga hei kiriata ina ke te nui o te matakihia. I te taha o te terenga o nga pukapuka o Hare Pota, i tuhi hoki ia i etahi pukapuka poto e toru hei tapirihanga ki era atu: Te Kuitiki i Roto i nga Tau me Nga Katuarehe me nga Wahi e Kitea ai, hei tautoko i a Comic Relief me Lumos, tae atu ki Nga Paki mo Pitara te Kaitito hei tautoko i a Lumos. I mahi tahi a J.K. Rowling ratou ko te kaihanga whakaari, ko Jack Thorne, ko te ringatohu, ko John Tiffany, kia haere tonu nga korero mo Hare ma roto i te whakaari i runga atamira, ko Hare Pota me te Tamaiti kua Kangaia, i timata i Ranana i te tau 2016, a, inaianei kei te ao whanui e whakaaturia ana. I taua tau ano, katahi ia ka timata hei kaituhi kiriata i a Nga Katuarehe me nga Wahi e Kitea ai, koia nei te tuatahi o tetahi terenga e kitea ai te kaimatai kararehe-tumatarau, a Nui Karamena, i puta ai na te pukapuka tapiri tuatahi. Kua tuhi hoki a J.K. Rowling i tetahi pakimaero takitahi, i a The Casual Vacancy, a, ko ia te kaituhi o te terenga puka-taihara, o Strike, i raro i tona ingoa huna, i a Robert Galbraith. Kua hurihia aua pukapuka e rua hei hotaka pouaka whakaata. E hia nei nga tohu me nga whakahonoretanga kua whiwhi ia, tae atu ki tetahi OBE me tetahi Companion of Honour mo ana mahi ki te ao tuhituhi me te ohaoha. Kei Koterangi ratou ko tana whanau e noho ana. J.K. ROWLING is best known as the author of the seven Harry Potter books, which were published between 1997 and 2007. The enduringly popular adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione have gone on to sell over 500 million copies, be translated into over eighty languages and made into eight blockbuster films. Alongside the Harry Potter series, she also wrote three short companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in aid of Lumos. J.K. Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to continue Harry's story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened in London in 2016 and is now playing worldwide. In the same year, she made her debut as a screenwriter with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first in a series featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander, which was inspired by the original companion volume. J.K. Rowling has also written a standalone novel, The Casual Vacancy, and is the author of the Strike crime series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Both have been adapted for television. She has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and a Companion of Honour for services to literature and philanthropy. She lives in Scotland with her family. Te Kaiwhakamāori / Translator Nō ngā iwi o Tūhoe, o Tūhorangi, o Ngāti Wāhiao, o Ngāti Whāwhākia, o Ngāti Porou, o Taranaki, o Ngāti Kahungunu, o Te Whānau a Apanui a Leon Heketū Blake, ā, kua roa ia e whakaako ana i te reo Māori ki ngā tamariki, ki ngā mātua, ki ngā kaiako anō hoki o te motu. He ika-a-Whiro a Leon nō Te Panekiretanga o te Reo. He kaiako hoki ia i reira, ā, ko ia tētahi o te hunga nāna i waihanga te tohu paetahi o Te Paritūtanga o te Reo me te tohu paerua o Te Reo Kairangi i raro i te maru o Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Ko Leon hoki tētahi o ngā mema o te ohu nāna i tiaki te kounga o te whakamāoritanga o te Ture mō te Reo, 2016. He mea whakawhiwhi ōna tohu mātauranga ki a ia e Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, i Papaioea. Kua whakawhiwhia ki a Leon ngā tohu o te whakawhiti reo ā-tuhi, ā-waha hoki e whaimana ana i raro i Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori. I te tekau tau kua hipa ake nei, mā tana pakihi o Kounga Ltd, kua tukuna e ia ngā ratonga e pā ana ki te reo Māori. Ko te tikanga o Kounga, ko te eke o te pai ki tōna taumata e tika ana – e whai ana a Leon kia tae atu āna mahi katoa e whai wāhi ai te reo Māori ki taua taumata rā. Tuku ratonga whakawhiti reo ai ia ki ngā pokapū o te kāwanatanga, ā, kua noho ia hei kaitohutohu reo Māori i ētahi hōtaka pouaka whakaata, tae atu ki a SpongeBob TarauPorowhā me Tōra te Mātātoa. I te tau 2017, ka whakamāoritia e ia te pukapuka a Ahorangi Rangi Matamua e kīia nei ko Matariki: Te Whetū Tapu o te Tau. He pārekareka ki a Leon te whakatangi piana, te noho tahi hoki me ana mokopuna. Leon Heketū Blake (Tūhoe, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Wāhiao, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whāwhākia, Taranaki, Ngāti Kahungunu) is a long-standing teacher of te reo Māori to young people, adults and teachers across the country. Leon is a graduate of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo (The Institute of Excellence in the Māori Language) and went on to become one of its tutors. He has co-written a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Māori Language Excellence for Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Leon was on the Quality Assurance Group for Te Ture mō te Reo, 2016. He received his qualifications from Massey University in Palmerston North. Leon is a certified translator and interpreter, registered with The Māori Language Commission in New Zealand. For the past decade, he has provided Māori language consultancy services through his company Kounga Ltd. Kounga means quality – and all of Leon’s endeavours work towards achieving this for the Māori language. He provides translation services to government agencies, and he has worked as a Māori language advisor on several television productions, including SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer. In 2017, he translated Professor Rangi Matamua’s book entitled Matariki: The Star of the Year. Leon enjoys playing the piano and spending time with his granddaughters. Ko Kotahi Rau Pukapuka te waka. Ko te pae tawhiti, kia 100 ngā pukapuka reo Māori ka pae ki uta. Kotahi Rau Pukapuka Trust was launched in October 2019 with an audacious goal of producing 100 great books in te reo Māori.

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Carrie Rudzinski has performed her work over the past 17 years in six countries and has been featured in Bustle, HuffPost and Teen Vogue. She ranked 4th in the world at the 2014 Women of the World Poetry Slam, won the 2019 Pussy Riot Award at Auckland Fringe Festival, and co-founded Auckland’s JAFA Poetry Slam. Her poems have been published in Landfall, The Spinoff, Stasis Journal, Catalyst and Muzzle, among others. She is the author of seven books and five spoken word albums, and from 2016–2020 she taught the only spoken word course offered at a tertiary level in Oceania at Manukau Institute of Technology. Carrie is the co-creator of three poetry theatre shows – How We Survive (2019), The Bitching Hour (2023) and Hysterical (2022) – the latter of which won Best New Aotearoa Play at the Wellington Theatre Awards and Outstanding Performance Poetry at Auckland Fringe Festival. Grace Iwashita-Taylor, breathing bloodlines of Samoa, England and Japan, is an artist of upu/words on the page, digital storytelling and live performance, and is dedicated to carving, elevating, and holding spaces for storytellers of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. She is a recipient of the CNZ Emerging Pacific Artist 2014 and the Auckland Mayoral Writers Grant 2016, and highlights of her work include holding the visiting international writer in residence at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2018, and being a co-founder of the first youth poetry slam in Aotearoa, Rising Voices (2011–2016) and the South Auckland Poets Collective. She has published two collections, Afakasi Speaks (2013) and Full Broken Bloom (2017) with ala press, is the writer of My Own Darling commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company (2015, 2017, 2019), and curator of UPU (Auckland Arts Festival 2020 & Kia Mau Festival 2021). Alongside Dr Lana Lopesi, she is co-director of Flying Fetu Festival, dedicated to building abundant futures for Moana artists of upu/word. Grace is currently working on her next body of work, ‘Water Memories’.