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Essayist, poet and now novelist Michelle Rahurahu's first novel Poorhara has been praised by critics as "possibly the best Aoteraroa novel of the year".
Poorhara is a tragi-comic story of two cousins, Erin and Star, on an epic journey towards their whenua in a bashed-up 1994 Daihatsu Mira.They're chasing their dreams - but can they afford them?
Michelle was a co-editor of Te Rito o te Harakeke, an anthology of Maaori voices for Ihumaatao. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letter, where she won the Modern Letters Fiction Prize. She was shortlisted for the Michael Gifkins Prize for Poorhara.
