Patricia Grace talks about her inspiration for Bird Child and Other Stories

Patricia Grace, author of Bird Child and Other Stories.

First published on RNZ

3 February 2024

Patricia Grace is one of Aotearoa's most celebrated Maori fiction authors.

She won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction for Potiki in 1987, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2001 with Dogside Story.

She has a new collection of short stories, Bird Child and Other Stories, which spans mythology and contemporary Māori life and reimagines ancient tales.

The cover art is courtesy of granddaughter Miriama Grace-Smith. Patricia and Miriama talk to RNZ’s Susie Ferguson.

First published on RNZ