New Zealand author, editor and academic (1935-2006)
Margaret Orbell
CNZM
Born
(1935-07-17)17 July 1935 Auckland, New Zealand
Died
31 July 2006(2006-07-31) (aged 71) Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation
Author
editor
academic
Education
University of Auckland (Ph.D. in anthopology)
Subject
Māori culture
Years active
1962–2006
Spouse
Gordon Walters
(m. 1963; died 1995)
Children
2
Margaret Rose OrbellCNZM (17 July 1935 – 31 July 2006) was a New Zealand author, editor and academic. She was an associate professor of Māori at the University of Canterbury from 1976 to 1994. During her career, Orbell wrote several books on Māori literature and culture, edited numerous collections of songs, poetry and stories, and brought Māori works to a wider and international audience. She was an editor of bilingual magazine Te Ao Hou / The New World in the 1960s, and expanded the magazine's literary and historical content. In 2002, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori and literature.
Margaret Rose Orbell CNZM (17 July 1935 – 31 July 2006) was a New Zealand author, editor and academic. She was an associate professor of Māori at the University...
geometric abstraction, he moved to Christchurch in 1976. Walters married MargaretOrbell (1934–2006), a scholar of Māori literature, in 1963. Gordon Walters...
Date Claimant Notes Ref Never MargaretOrbell (1985) View of Kupe as entirely mythical. 925 CE Percy Smith (1913–15) Attacked by Simmons (1976) as "the...
Walsh, Peter Ranby, Pita Sharples, Parehuia Hopa, MargaretOrbell, Bill Tawhai, Bill Nepia and Margaret Mutu. Biggs was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society...
Olsson (born 1948), novelist Claudia Orange (born 1938), historian MargaretOrbell (1935–2006), author, editor and academic Sue Orr (born 1962), fiction...
novelist Claudia Orange (born 1938), historian and non-fiction writer MargaretOrbell (1935–2006), author, editor and academic Sue Orr (born 1962), short...
Gordon Ell (1985) Bush Press. The Natural World of the Maori; text by MargaretOrbell; photographs by Geoff Moon (1985) William Collins. The Kingfisher,...
writer) Margaret Mahy (fiction writer and poet) Janice Marriott (fiction writer and playwright) Diana Noonan (editor in the 1990s) MargaretOrbell (writer...
Archived from the original on 15 January 2024. Retrieved 15 January 2023. Orbell, John (2001). British Banking: A Guide to Historical Records. London: Ashgate...
for Culture and Heritage / Te Manatu-Taonga. Retrieved 2010-10-02. Orbell, Margaret (2003). Birds of Aotearoa. Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd. pp. 118–120....
Zealand Endangered Species. Cassell NZ. p. 82. ISBN 0-908572-22-0. Orbell, Margaret (2003). Birds of Aotearoa. Reed Publishing NZ Ltd. p. 129. ISBN 0-7900-0909-9...
influence on her photography practice, and her nephew was doctor Geoffrey Orbell. In 1895, Buckland won second place in a photography competition run by...
[1854]. Nga Mahi a Nga Tupuna (Fourth ed.). Wellington: Reed. pp. 1–5. Orbell, Margaret (1998). Concise Encyclopedia of Maori Myth and Legend. Christchurch:...
background". Tuatua Mai. Retrieved 11 March 2013. Ruth H. Finnegan; Margaret Rose Orbell, eds. (1995). South Pacific Oral Traditions. Indiana University Press...
Birds (2nd ed.). New Zealand: Random House. ISBN 978-1-86941-043-8. Orbell, Margaret Rose (1992). Traditional Maori Stories. Birkenhead, Auckland: Reed...
typewritten by Alger Hiss, during pretrial examination. November 20 – Geoffrey B. Orbell rediscovers the Takahē, last seen 50 years previously, near Lake Te Anau...
thought to have been extinct for fifty years, is rediscovered by Geoffrey Orbell near Lake Te Anau in the South Island of New Zealand. Last recorded sighting...
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