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Keri Hulme, New Zealand author and poet (died 2021)

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Keri Hulme

New Zealand writer (1947–2021)

Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985; she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for a…
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March 9

Day of the year

March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 297 days remain until the end of the year.
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