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Patricia Grace

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Also known as Patricia Frances Grace, Patricia Gunson, Patricia Frances Gunson

New Zealand writer (born 1937)

Person · Open Library

Born
1937
Works
27

Top works

  • Wolność
  • Earth, Sea, Sky
  • Dogside Story
  • The dream sleepers
  • Dream Sleepers and Other Stories

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1948-05-19

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Quotes

  • Every society has its own stories – old stories, but very importantly, new stories too, that give identity to the self and explain that particular world. If there are no books which tell us about ourselves, but tell us only about others, that makes you invisible in the world of literature. That is dangerous.
  • I'd had a glossary in a previous work and then I suddenly thought that a glossary is there for foreign languages, italics are there for foreign languages. I didn't want the Māori language to be treated as a foreign language in its own country.
  • I was okay about being Māori. I was okay about being brown, because this had been reinforced positively by my parents and their families. But I always had it in the back of mind, these people don't understand. They don't know. Along with that there was often the assumption that I wasn't clean, I wasn't clever, you know. These were the things that hurt me.
  • I had always loved writing, but I didn't kind of know that a writer was something one could aspire to be and that was partly because I'd never read writing by New Zealand writers.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Frances
Gender
female
Citizenship
New Zealand
Place of birth
Wellington
Languages spoken
English language
Image
Patricia Grace in 2016 (cropped).jpg
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date of birth
1937-08-17
birth name
Patricia Gunson
Commons category
Patricia Grace
nominated for
Booker Prize
relative
Briar Grace-Smith
Sources (7)

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