New Zealand Literature

New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation. New Zealand literature is almost exclusively literature in the English language and as such a sub-type of English literature.

Read more about New Zealand Literature:  Early Maori Literature, Poetry, Writers, Playwrights

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    Teasing is universal. Anthropologists have found the same fundamental patterns of teasing among New Zealand aborigine children and inner-city kids on the playgrounds of Philadelphia.
    Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

    One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
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    Ogden Nash (1902–1971)