Lydia Davis (Cook Islands writer)

For the American author, see Lydia Davis.

Myra Lydia Davis (1919–2000) was a writer in the Cook Islands. She is known for writing, alongside her husband Thomas Davis, the 1960 novel Makutu, thought to be "perhaps the first novel by South Pacific Island writers."[1]

  1. ^ Lynch, John; Mugle, France (1999). "English in the South Pacific". University of the South Pacific. Archived from the original on 2008-12-06.