Kauraka Kauraka
Kauraka Kauraka (5 September 1951 – 1997) was a Cook Islands writer. He was born in Avatiu on Rarotonga, the main island of the Cooks, and educated at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He published six collections of poems in the English and Rarotongan languages.
Kauraka Kauraka
- Born
- 1951 · Cook Islands.
- Died
- 1997 · Cook Islands.
- Nationality
- New Zealand · Cook Islands
- Occupation
- writer · poet
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When Kauraka died in 1997, he was buried on the atoll of Manihiki, northern Cooks. He was the brother of artist and writer Tepaeru Tereora.
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The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1951 at Cook Islands. It is also recorded that kauraka Kauraka died in 1997 at Cook Islands.
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Kauraka Kauraka (born 1951) is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Kauraka Kauraka was born in 1951.
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- 1.Poetry Foundation. Kauraka Kauraka. 18 May 2018.
- 2.Sandra Kailahi. Pasifika Women: Our Stories in New Zealand. Reed. 84. 2007. 978-0-7900-1180-6.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Taku Akatauira = My Dawning Star, IPS, USP, Suva, 1999.
- Manakonako : Reflections, IPS, USP, 1992.
- E au tuatua Ta'ito no Manihiki, IPS, USP, Suva, 1987.
- Dreams of the Rainbow : Moemoea a te Anuanua, Mana Publications, Suva, 1987.
- Return to Hawaiki, IPS, USP, Suva, 1980
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