Lino Nelisi
Lino Nelisi | |
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Born | 1952 (age 71–72) Avatele, Niue |
Nationality | New Zealander |
Alma mater | University of Auckland |
Lino Nelisi (born 1952) is a Niuean-born New Zealand author and educator.
Biography
[edit]Nelisi was born in 1952 in Avatele, Niue. Her father Ugamea Levi was from Avatele, and mother, Peko, was Samoan.[1]
Nelisi was the first Pacific Island student to graduate with a master's degree in education (Pasifika Education) from the University of Auckland Epsom Campus.[1]
Nelisi is a Niue language and culture expert. She began taught in Niue between 1970 and 1977, and in Auckland from the late 1980s.[1]
Nelisi has published in several Pacific languages, including in English, Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Niuean, Tokelauan, Cook Island Māori and Spanish.[1]
In 2015, Nelisi was the writer in residence at St Joseph's School, Otahuhu.[2]
Published works
[edit]She has published a number of books for children including:
- Aiani moe Pia aitu (1993)
- Koe ama uga (1994)
- Venise and the little red radio (1996)
- Siones' Tale (1992)
- Te taro O Sione (1992)
- Koe tale ha Sione (1993)
- O le talo Sione (1993)
- Fishing with Spiderwebs (1994)
- Sione Went Fishing (1996)
- Thats the way (1998)
- El taro de Sione (1996)
- Tāne te whetū o te rā (1997)
- Tane steals the show (1997)
- He ika mawhitiwhiti pungawerewere (2000)
- Ko e Pele Kilikiki (2003)
- The Blue Roses (2010)
Awards and honours
[edit]In the AIM Children's Book Awards, O le talo Sione (1993) was a finalist in 1993 and Fishing with Spiderwebs was a finalist in 1995.[3] Tāne te whetū o te rā (and its English translation Tane steals the show) was a finalist in the Picture Book category at the 1998 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Lino Nelisi". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
- ^ "A Time and Place: St Joseph's Primary School". Stuff. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
- ^ "AIM Children's Book Awards". christchurchcitylibraries.com. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
- ^ "New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults – Picture Book Award". christchurchcitylibraries.com. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
Further reading
[edit]- The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (1998) Edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195583489
- 1952 births
- Living people
- New Zealand people of Samoan descent
- Niuean emigrants to New Zealand
- University of Auckland alumni
- New Zealand fiction writers
- New Zealand women children's writers
- New Zealand children's writers
- 20th-century New Zealand women writers
- 21st-century New Zealand women writers
- New Zealand writer stubs