Patricia Grace

Hello,Welcome to my blog Today my reading group is call Patricia Grace but her really name is called Patricia Frances Gunson and she is a Maori novelist,born in wellington the capital city of New Zealand in 1937. She has taught a primary and secondary schools.Written at Victoria University in Wellington in 1985. Now in 1995 she is a full time writer,she lives at the ancestral land of her people of Ngati Toa.







The Moon Sleeps and Potiki, which won the fiction section of the New Zealand Book Awards as well as the Literaturpreis in Frankfurt. She has also written four short story collections.Dogside Story, published this month by The Women's Press in UK.






She is also born on August the 17th in 1937 She is also a New Zealand writer who was a figure in the rise and a development of Maori fiction too.Born to a Maori father.