An incredibly simple, fun and practical Maori dictionary for all New Zealanders.
Hemi Kelly is of Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whaoa
descent. He started learning te reo Māori as a young teenager and
naturally progressed into teaching roles after study. Hemi is a
full-time lecturer in te reo Māori at the Auckland University of
Technology. His academic research and writing focus largely on the
revitalisation of the Māori language and translation studies.
Hemi is a licensed translator and graduate of Te Panekiretanga o Te
Reo (The Institute of Excellence in the Maori Language). In 2017,
Hemi translated Witi Ihimaera's novella in Sleeps Standing and
published his first book A Māori Word a Day in 2018. In 2019, Hemi
published his first creative writing piece in English in Purakau, a
collection of Māori myths retold by Māori writers.
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