Booker Prize-winning novelist Keri Hulme dies at 74
The Hindu
The New Zealand writer’s 1984 novel The Bone People won her the Man Booker Prize
Keri Hulme, the New Zealander whose 1984 novel The Bone People won the , has died. She was 74.
Family members confirmed Hulme died Monday, December 27, 2021 morning at Waimate on New Zealand's South Island. They did not specify a cause.
Hulme worked as a tobacco picker, dropped out of law school and was a charity worker before becoming an unusual literary star when The Bone People, her first novel, won one of fiction's greatest prizes.
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