It's about what we were like in the 1940s and 1950s." It's about this valley, it's about a Maori story that draws its inspiration from oral traditions. It had to be about the life of everybody. "I couldn't, when I started writing Maori Boy, just make it just about my life. He said the book also covered what life in his community was like in the 1940s and 1950s. Maori Boy, the first volume of his multiple-part memoir, covers the first 15 years of Mr Ihimaera's life on New Zealand's East Coast, including several experiences that influenced his fiction writing. This time, I've had to bite the bullet and take off that veil." With memoir, you've actually got to engage the truth. "I have been trying to run away from it ever since Random asked me to do it," he said. Speaking to Saturday Morning's Kim Hill, Mr Ihimaera said switching from fiction to memoir had been difficult. Witi Ihimaera spoke with Kim Hill about his new memoir, the "double burden" of Maori writers, music and history.
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