Ihimaera, Witi, 1944- (Personal Name)

Author's Pounamu, pounamu, 1972: t.p. (Witi Ihimaera)

Into the world of light, 1982: t.p. (Witi Ihimaera)

Authors' choice, 2001: page 280 (Witi Ihimaera; novelist, short story writer, editor and playwright; he lives in Auckland)

Ihimaera : his best stories, 2003: title page (Witi Ihimaera) page 4 of cover (born in Gisborne, New Zealand, in 1944; pioneer of Maori writing in English; was a diplomat for many years, and now teaches English and creative writing at the University of Auckland)

New Zealand Book Council website, April 27, 2016 (Ihimaera, Witi; first Maori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel; in 1996 he also moved to foreground his sexuality, describing Nights in the Gardens of Spain as keeping faith with his gay audience; he writes new work for opera; Ihimaera, Witi (Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler) (1944- ), novelist, short story writer, anthologist and librettist, was born in Gisborne; of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki descent, with close affiliations to Tühoe, Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngati Kahungunu, and Ngai Tamanuhiri, and links to Rongowhakaata, Ngati Porou, and Te Whakatohea. His family marae is the family house of the Pere family, Rongopai, in Waituhi, near Gisborne) http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/ihimaerawiti.html

Encyclopædia Britannica online, May 8, 2019 (Witi Ihimaera; New Zealand author; Witi Ihimaera, in full Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, (born February 7, 1944, Waituhi, near Gisborne, New Zealand), Maori author whose novels and short stories explore the clash between Maori and Pakeha (white, European-derived) cultural values in his native New Zealand; Ihimaera was married to a woman and later discovered that he was gay) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Witi-Ihimaera