Annais Allen

Ngāi ta weke ki te ta a whenua, Ngāti Rāhiri, Ngāti Kawa

Ngāti Rēhia, Te Uri o Hua

1961 -

Annais Allen ‘is the publishing manager at Te Reo Publications. A former education officer with Women’s Refuge, she received a Te Atairangikaahu award for her children’s stories in 1993. Her books include Ngā Pukapuka Whānau (1991), I Tēnei Ra/It’s Saturday Today (1992) and What’s Happening to Matiu? (1992), and her stories have also appeared on ‘Ears’. She is currently developing resources for the Te Riroriro reading programme developed by Te Whānau Kotahi Total Immersion Māori Language Unit at Opononi Area School. She was a member of the Māori delegation which attended the first International Indigenous Writers Conference in Ottawa, Canada, in 1993.’ She has written stories for children - some are written directly into Māori and others are in English.

Biographical sources

  • Email correspondence from Annais Allen: 13 July 1998.
  • Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 332.

    Children's literature

  • “Ko Taku Ingoa Karanga ki a Māmā ko Hare.” Trans. Te Åri Kuti Whaanga. Nga Kōrero 6 (1993). Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 183-185.

  • Fiction

  • “My Mum Calls Me Charlie.” School Journal 3.3 (1991). Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 185-186.
  • The story of a young boy called Charlie who is left in the care of his grandfather until his cousin comes to claim him and raise him in the North.

    • Other

  • Ngā Pukapuka Whānau. 1991. No details.
  • I Tēnei Ra. Na kupu Annais Allen, Janine McVeagh. Whakaahua Bill Keir. Opononi, N.Z.: Te Reo Publications, c1992.
  • It’s Saturday Today. Story by Annais Allen, Janine McVeagh. Photos Bill Keir. Opononi, N.Z.: Te Reo Publications, c1992.
  • What’s Happening to Matiu? 1992. No details.

    Other

  • Ritchie, Rayna. “Positive In Print.” New Zealand Herald 25 May 1993. 6.