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Podcast: Smart Talk
Episode: Monty Soutar on Kāwai - his bestselling novel about pre-colonial Māori life
Description: To engage young people accustomed to visual storytelling, historian Monty Soutar wrote Kāwai: For Such a Time as This as if it were a movie.To engage young people accustomed to visual storytelling, historian Monty Soutar wrote Kāwai: For Such a Time as This as if it were a movie.In this 2023 Auckland Writers Festival event, he discusses the book with Stacey Morrison (Te Arawa, Ngāi Tahu). Listen to the conversationA historian with deep knowledge of Māori history (and an ONZM for services to Māori and h...