![]() The Booker Prize is one of the highest honours to be awarded in the world of literature on an international scale. (This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed. Until recently, Maori writer Keri Hulme was the only New Zealand writer to have ever won the renowned Man Booker Prize. It was never about the glitz and glam(or), she just had stories to share." (AP) AMS "It wasn't really something that she discussed. ![]() "There were stories of her being this literary giant," Hulme's nephew Matthew Salmons told the New Zealand news website Stuff. Hulme took almost 20 years to produce The Bone People which drew on her indigenous Maori and Scottish heritage, weaving themes of personal and cultural isolation. ![]() The novel was rejected by several publishers before being picked up by the obscure publisher Spiral, a New Zealand feminist collective. Hulme worked as a tobacco picker, dropped out of law school and was a charity worker before becoming an unusual literary star when The Bone People, her first novel, won one of fiction's greatest prizes. ![]() She was 74.įamily members confirmed Hulme died Monday morning at Waimate on New Zealand's South Island. Keri Hulme, the New Zealander whose 1984 novel The Bone People won the Man Booker Prize, has died. ![]()
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