# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/witi-ihimaera
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:45:14.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/witi-ihimaera"
name: "Witi Ihimaera"
slug: "witi-ihimaera"
description: "Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler is a New Zealand author. Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people were ignored or mischaracterised in literature. He was the first Māori writer to publish a collection of short stories, with Pounamu, Pounamu (1972), and the first to publish a novel, with Tangi (1973). After his early works, he took a ten-year break from writing, during which he focused on editing an anthology of Māori writing in English."
tagline: "New Zealand writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Witi_Ihimaera.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-02-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.00850133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1065547/"
    handle:    "nm1065547"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ويتي إهيميرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ويتى اهيميرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witi_Ihimaera"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%98%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Вити Ихимаэра"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%B9%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%81%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ویٹی اہیمیرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983228"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15288"
    title: "Witi Ihimaera"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump