
In 1993 Witi Ihimaera spent a year in France on the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship. Ihimaera has also edited a major five volume collection of new Maori fiction and non - fiction, called the Te Aro Marama series. His other fiction titles include The Dream Swimmer (sequel to the award winning The Matriarch) Pounamu, Pounamu Whanau The New Net Goes Fishing The Whale Rider Dear Miss Mansfield Kingfisher Come Home and Nights In The Gardens of Spain. Bulibasha, King of the Gypsies won the Wattie/Montana Book of the Year award in 1995 and he won it in 19 for Tangi and The Matriarch respectively.

Three - time winner of the Wattie/Montana Book of the Year award, Katherine Mansfield fellow, and playwright Witi Ihimaera is one of New Zealands most accomplished writers.
