Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (2012) Icon Award (2018)
Academic background
Education
New Plymouth Boys' High School
Alma mater
Victoria University
Academic work
Discipline
Pacific literature
New Zealand literature
Institutions
The University of Auckland, University of the South Pacific
Notable works
Sons for the Return Home (1973) Leaves of the Banyan Tree (1979)
Albert Tuaopepe WendtONZ CNZM (born 27 October 1939) is a Samoan poet and writer who lives in New Zealand. He is one of the most influential writers in Oceania. His notable works include Sons for the Return Home, published in 1973 (adapted into a feature film in 1979), and Leaves of the Banyan Tree, published in 1979. As an academic he has taught at universities in Samoa, Fiji, Hawaii and New Zealand, and from 1988 to 2008 was the professor of New Zealand literature at the University of Auckland.
Wendt is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including twice receiving the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Asia-Pacific region, multiple top awards at the New Zealand Book Awards, the 2012 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction and an Icon Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand in 2018. In 2013 he was appointed a member of the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civilian honour, recognising his pivotal role in the formation of Pacific literature in English.
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film directed by Paul Maunder. The film is based on the 1973 book by AlbertWendt. A romance develops between Sione a Samoan and Sarah a white middle class...
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