Becky Manawatu grew up in Waimangaroa, attended Buller High School and later lived in Gernany and Italy for ten years. She now lives on the West Coast and has worked as a Westport News journalist. Her novel Auē (2019) won the Jann Medlicott Prize for Fiction, the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book in the New Zealand Ockham Book Awards in 2020, and the Best Novel at the Ngaio Marsh 2020 Awards.
Biographical sources
- Auckland Writers Festival 14-19 May 2024 Programme.
HIWI: Contemporary Māori Short Stories. Ed. Paula Morris. Consulting Ed. Darryn Joseph. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press 2023. 171-172.
Fiction
- Auē. Makaro Press, 2019.
- Winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in 2020, winner of the MITOQ Best First Book of Fiction, and the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2020.
- Silly Buggers. HIWI: Contemporary Māori Short Stories. Ed. Paula Morris. Consulting Ed. Darryn Joseph. Auckland, N.Z.: Auckland University Press 2023. 173-179.
Other
- Braunias, Steve. Readingroom: Manawatu to the rescue: New books by two Māori authors and an ex-PM look to set to create a sales bonanza in 2024. https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/01/22/manawatu-to-the-rescue/