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  • Jul 23, 2024 | nzreviewofbooks.com | Rebecca Hill |Shilo Kino

    All That We Know is an earnest, often moving story of a young woman finding her place in te ao Māori. Shilo Kino’s first book, The Pōrangi Boy, won the Young Adult fiction category at the 2021 NZCYA Book Awards and All That We Know delves deeper into struggles with decolonisation, racism and belonging. The novel follows Māreikura, a Māori woman in her early twenties living with her Nan in Ponsonby.

  • Jul 21, 2024 | newsroom.co.nz | Shilo Kino

    Māreikura recognised her in an instant. The woman guarding the event. She was in her fifties, wearing an orange vest and scanning media passes. She had all the nuances Māreikura was familiar with. The judgemental flicker of the eye. The eye roll. Looking at anything but Māreikura. Māreikura handed the woman her pass. Please don‘t talk to me in te reo. Don‘t talk to me in te reo. “Nō hea koe?” the woman asked, skimming her pass.

  • Jun 27, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Madeleine Crutchley |Shilo Kino

    Booksellers from local shops consult their personal libraries and share their picks for the best books of the year so far. Although we’re only halfway through 2024, this year has welcomed the release of so many great stories. And, with the piles of books building, it can be tricky to narrow down a personal reading list.

  • Sep 17, 2023 | msn.com | Shilo Kino

    Shilo Kino on the power of being a Māori journalist, from a powerful new anthology of Māori writing   The night before I met the four sisters, I couldn’t sleep. I spent hours reading through the court documents which detailed the horrific abuse, the injustice and travesty of what these girls had gone through. It was heartbreaking, emotional and heavy to say the least.

  • Sep 8, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Shilo Kino

    The View from My WindowWellington writer Michaela Keeble was inspired to create a children’s book by her son’s thoughts (Kerehi Grace, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Porou). I came here to Aotearoa about 15 years ago. My ancestry is German, Australian and British. I met a fella at a pub who was raising his kids in te reo Māori. And then when we had our first pēpi together, our son Kerehi, who helped write the book. We didn’t set out to write a pukapuka.

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