With great pleasure we can announce that Pā Henare Tate’s He Puna Iti i te Ao Mārama, published by
Libro International last November, has won the Te Kōrero Pono/Non-fiction
category in the Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards.
The awards, administered by Massey University, will be
granted in a ceremony at Te Wharewaka o Poneke function centre in Wellington on
7 November.
Identified in five categories – biography, fiction,
non-fiction, te reo Māori and a special award – the winners were selected from books
published between August 2012 and July this year.
Chair of the three-member judging panel and Massey
University senior lecturer, Dr Spencer Lilley said the awards are held to
address the dearth of Māori literature for adults.
“The awards were created as a result of other major
book awards consistently failing to acknowledge Māori authors. The Awards also foster Māori literary excellence,
authorship and scholarship in te reo Māori,” he said.
Pā Henare’s work, which is subtitled A Little Spring in the World of Light, was described by the judges
as a compelling description of the role that Māori tikanga (protocols) and
kaupapa (methodologies) play in the construction of a
Māori Christian theological framework.
“This scholarly text joins other seminal works on tikanga
Māori by Barlow (Tikanga Whakaaro: key concepts in tikanga Māori) and Mead
(Tikanga Māori: living by Māori values),” the judges said.
Our hearty congratulations to Pā
Henare for this much deserved recognition.
Pā Henare Tate (Ngāti
Manawa, Te Rarawa) was formerly a lecturer at the Auckland
Catholic Institute of Theology, and the University of Auckland School of
Theology. A recognised specialist in Māori spirituality, he now lives lives in
Motuti, in northern Hokianga.
He Puna Iti i Te Ao Mārama: A Little Spring in the World of Light
Pā Henare Tate
978-1-877514-54-8
240 x 160 mm portrait, PB, 320 pp
$75
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