Works by
Keri Hulme
(Writer)
[March 9, 1947 - ]

Fiction

Novels

• Bait (2001, UK, US)

• The Bone People (1984, UK, US) -- Winner 1985 Booker Prize for Fiction
  The story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper. The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a huge, ambitious work that tackles the clash between Maori and European characters in beautiful prose of a heartrending poignancy.

Short Stories

• Stonefish (2004, UK, US)

• Homeplaces: Three Coasts of the South Island of New Zealand (1989, UK, US) with Robin Morrison, Illustrator
  A descriptive autobiography by Keri Hulme of her "homeplaces". For Hulme, these are three places in her native New Zealand: Okarito, a former goldrush settlement on the West Coast; Moeraki, site of ancient habitations; and Stewart Island on the southernmost tip.

• Te Whenua, Te Iwi/The Land and The People (1987, US)

• Te Kaihau: The Windeater (1986, UK, US)

Poetry

• Strands (1992, UK, US)
  Keri Hulme writes: Describe Strands? O, fishing and death. Angry women/angry earth chants, and funny inserts/insights/snippets/snappings. Winesongs of fifteen years’ maturation. Plait together land and air and sea: interweave the eye and the word and the ear. Show people that I take life seriously, but not so seriously as to ruin my chance of getting out of it alive. Let it be seen that I hang onto life by my Kaitahutaka, buoyed up by a raft of family and friends, while listening very carefully for homing surf. I am a strand-dweller in reality, a strand-loper or sorts – nau mai! Come share a land, a lagoon, a mind, a glass… -- Amazon.com

• Lost Possessions (1985, UK, US)

• The Silences Between (Moeraki Conversations) (1982, UK, US)

See also:

• Huia Short Stories 6: Contemporary Maori Fiction (2006, UK, US), Keri Hulme and Patricia Grace, eds.

• Women on Women: Literature and Themes (2006, UK, US), Amina Amin, Gita Chaudhuri, and Rajyashree Khushu Lahiri, eds.
  15 essays by leading writers, feminists.  Covers commonwealth literature, attention to themes and ethnicity, views of women, by authors such as Chandini Lokuge,  Kate Grenville, Keri Hulme, Manju Kapoor, Margaret Atwood, Monica Ali, and Nadine Gordimer

• New Zealand The Millennium - A Photographic Tribute to New Zealand (1999, UK, US)

• New Zealand Short Stories Fourth Series (1984, UK, US), Lydia Wevers, Compiler
  Includes works by C. K. Stead, Fiona Kidman, Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Maurice Duggan, Maurice Gee, Patricia Gracae, and others.