Hemi Kelly Collection

Hemi Kelly is of Ng-ti Maniapoto and Ng-ti Tahu-Ng-ti Whaoa descent. He started learning te reo M-ori as a young teenager and naturally progressed into teaching roles after study. Hemi is a full-time lecturer in te reo M-ori at the Auckland University of Technology. His academic research and writing focus largely on the revitalisation of the M-ori language and translation studies. Hemi is a licensed translator and graduate of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo (The Institute of Excellence in the Maori Language). In 2017, Hemi translated Witi Ihimaera's novella in Sleeps Standing and published his first book A M-ori Word a Day in 2018. In 2019, Hemi published his first creative writing piece in English in Purakau, a collection of M-ori myths retold by M-ori writers.