found: Author's Pounamu, pounamu, 1972:t.p. (Witi Ihimaera)
found: Into the world of light, 1982:t.p. (Witi Ihimaera)
found: Authors' choice, 2001:page 280 (Witi Ihimaera; novelist, short story writer, editor and playwright; he lives in Auckland)
found: Ihimaera : his best stories, 2003:title page (Witi Ihimaera) page 4 of cover (born in Gisborne, New Zealand, in 1944; pioneer of Maori writing in English; was a diplomat for many years, and now teaches English and creative writing at the University of Auckland)
found: New Zealand Book Council website, April 27, 2016(Ihimaera, Witi; first Maori writer to publish both a book of short stories and a novel; in 1996 he also moved to foreground his sexuality, describing Nights in the Gardens of Spain as keeping faith with his gay audience; he writes new work for opera; Ihimaera, Witi (Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler) (1944- ), novelist, short story writer, anthologist and librettist, was born in Gisborne; of Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki descent, with close affiliations to Tühoe, Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngati Kahungunu, and Ngai Tamanuhiri, and links to Rongowhakaata, Ngati Porou, and Te Whakatohea. His family marae is the family house of the Pere family, Rongopai, in Waituhi, near Gisborne) - http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/ihimaerawiti.html found: Encyclopædia Britannica online, May 8, 2019(Witi Ihimaera; New Zealand author; Witi Ihimaera, in full Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, (born February 7, 1944, Waituhi, near Gisborne, New Zealand), Maori author whose novels and short stories explore the clash between Maori and Pakeha (white, European-derived) cultural values in his native New Zealand; Ihimaera was married to a woman and later discovered that he was gay) - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Witi-Ihimaera
