Kauraka Kauraka [SEP] date of birth
Kauraka Kauraka
Kauraka Kauraka (5 September 1951 – 1997) was a Cook Islands writer. He was born in Rarotonga, the main island of the Cooks. Kauraka studied in New Zealand, Fiji and other countries. He published six collections of poems in the English and Rarotongan languages. When Kauraka died in 1997, he was buried on the atoll of Manihiki, northern Cooks.
Bibliography.
- "Taku Akatauira = My Dawning Star", IPS, USP, Suva, 1999.
- "Manakonako :
te au tata tuatua Ngatupuna Kautai...(et al.), Suva, University of the South Pacific.1993. (Maori translation of "Atiu : an island Community")
- "A vocabulary of the Mangaian language" by Christian, F. W. 1924. Bernice P. Bishop Bulletin 2. Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
- E au tuatua ta'ito no Manihiki, Kauraka Kauraka, IPS, USP, Suva. 1987.
External links.
- Cook Islands Maori Database
- Dictionary of Cook Islands Languages.