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We’re here to talk about her memoir, From the Centre: A Writer’s Life, which will be launched at the Auckland Writers Festival, where she is one of the guest speakers. Grace is one of New Zealand/Aotearoa’s most celebrated Māori fiction authors, who, over five decades, has won national and international awards for her work, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (considered the most prestigious literary prize after the Nobel). She was made a distinguished companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature in 2007. Grace is known for being self-effacing and it was her publisher, Harriet Allan, of Penguin Random House, who suggested she write a memoir. In an email, Allan describes the importance of Grace’s work: “While conveying a compelling story, Patricia has a powerful ability to enable the reader see the world through her character’s eyes, to open up diverse issues to make us see their human implications, to explore language and form with a poetic sensibility, and. has provided an invaluable Māori voice and perspective to our literature, which was previously woefully absent.’’
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Jan. 27 is Family Literacy Day, a day that celebrates adults and children reading together. The annual awareness initiative started by the non-profit national literacy organization ABC Life Literacy in 1999. The annual event is meant to amplify the importance of families reading and engaging in literacy-related activities. The initiative encourages Canadian families to spend at least 20 minutes a day participating in a learning activity together. According to ABC Life Literacy, taking time every day to read or do a learning activity with children is crucial to a child’s development, and improve both the child and the parent’s literacy skills.