Writing · Author · Novel · Associate Producer
Active 1981–present · Awards: Queen's Service Medal, Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Exemplary/Supreme Award of the Te Waka Toi Awards, Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (Fiction), Fellow of the Academy of New Zealand Literature, Robert Burns Fellowship, honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington
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.