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Tina Makereti

Tina Makereti

New Zealand novelist and essayist

Aug 17, 2026

1:03
[laughs] And we had a little chat before the start of recording about how that was actually one of the hardest questions.
1:07
Oh, kia ora.
1:08
Um, nō Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Āti Awa, Te Āti Awa, ā, Ngāti Rangaītahi, Matakore ahau.
1:16
Um, ko Tina Makereti toku ingoa.
1:18
I am a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and, no, long stories and short stories and nonfiction.
1:26
See, I don't even know what I do.
1:28
But, um, yeah, it is a hard que- question for me sometimes to answer.

17 MINS LATER

18:28
Mm.

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