SARONA AIONO-IOSEFA author of a number of fiction and nonfiction books for children, has won the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer-in-Residence.
The award was created by Creative New Zealand in partnership with Fulbright New Zealand to enable writers to work on projects exploring Pacific identity, culture or history.
Aiono-Iosefa will go to the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Hawaii to focus on writing full-time for three months. In addition to being a writer, she is a communications adviser at the Christchurch City Council.
Aiono-Iosefa first started writing for her children, so that they could read stories about Samoan culture. According to an interview with the media, the mother of four said, while raising her children in Aotearoa/New Zealand, "There were no books involving Samoan culture that my children could see themselves in." The residency in Hawai'i will give her uninterrupted time to write and the opportunity to meet other Pacific writers.
During her residency, Aiono-Iosefa plans to finish a teenage novella entitled O Se Mea e Tatau, about the arrival of religion in Samoa.
The award was created by Creative New Zealand in partnership with Fulbright New Zealand to enable writers to work on projects exploring Pacific identity, culture or history.
Aiono-Iosefa will go to the Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Hawaii to focus on writing full-time for three months. In addition to being a writer, she is a communications adviser at the Christchurch City Council.
Aiono-Iosefa first started writing for her children, so that they could read stories about Samoan culture. According to an interview with the media, the mother of four said, while raising her children in Aotearoa/New Zealand, "There were no books involving Samoan culture that my children could see themselves in." The residency in Hawai'i will give her uninterrupted time to write and the opportunity to meet other Pacific writers.
During her residency, Aiono-Iosefa plans to finish a teenage novella entitled O Se Mea e Tatau, about the arrival of religion in Samoa.
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