Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme is a novelist, short story writer and poet, gained international recognition with her award-winning the bone people. Within New Zealand she has held writing fellowships at several universities, served on the Literary Fund Advisory Committee (1985–89) and the Indecent Publications Tribunal (1985–90), and in 1986–88 was appointed ‘cultural ambassador’ while travelling in connection with the bone people.