Apirana TaylorApirana Taylor

Apirana Taylor (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau-ā- Apanui, Ngāti Ruanui, Te Āti Awa and Ngāti Pākehā) is a writer and musician. His novel Five Strings was published in March 2017. Apirana was born in Wellington in 1955.

Māori writing in 2017: Apirana Taylor on the making of his novel about two alcoholic drug addicts

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Apirana Taylor backgrounds his new novel set in “the criminal underbelly of New Zealand’s underworld”. I sat down one morning to write a sentence which culminated in a 245-page novel several years later. A little bird sang, “This story is true. Write it.” And so I wrote Five Strings, a love story about two alcoholic drug … Read more