Becky Manawatu is a Ngāi Tahu writer born in Nelson, New Zealand in 1982 and raised in Waimangaroa, where she has returned to live with her family.
She worked as a reporter for The News in Westport before pursuing creative writing.
Her short story "Abalone" was longlisted for the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and her essay "Mothers Day" appears in the Landfall anthology Strong Words.
Auē, her debut novel, won both the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction and the Hubert Church Prize for best first book at the 2020 Ockham Book Awards, establishing her as a significant voice in contemporary New Zealand literature.
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