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Albert Wendt

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Contemporary Samoan poet and writer (born 1939)

WritersBorn 1939 · age 86
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Albert Tuaopepe Wendt is a Samoan poet and writer who lives in New Zealand. He is one of the most influential writers in Oceania. His notable works include Sons for the Return Home, published in 1973, and Leaves of the Banyan Tree, published in 1979.

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2013Order of New Zealand
2012Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (Fiction)
2005honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington
2003Senior Pacific Artist Award
2000Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
1994Order of Merit of Samoa
1993honorary doctorate of University of Burgundy
Fellow of the Academy of New Zealand Literature

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Albert Tuaopepe Wendt is a Samoan poet and writer who lives in New Zealand. He is one of the most influential writers in Oceania. His notable works include Sons for the Return Home, published in 1973, and Leaves of the Banyan Tree, published in 1979. As an academic he has taught at universities in Samoa, Fiji, Hawaii and New Zealand, and from 1988 to 2008 was the professor of New Zealand literature at the University of Auckland.

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Born 1939 · age 86
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