Whiti Hereaka | |
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2021_Tabitha_Arthur_Photography--2.jpg) Whiti Hereaka (2021) | |
| Born | 1978 (age 45–46) Taupō |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa |
| Citizenship | New Zealand |
Whiti Hereaka (born 1978) is a New Zealand playwright, novelist and screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. She has held a number of writing residencies and appeared at literary festivals in New Zealand and overseas, and several of her books and plays have been shortlisted for or won awards. In 2022 her book Kurangaituku won the prize for fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and Bugs won an Honour Award in the 2014 New Zealand Post Awards for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.