Patricia Grace (b. 1937) has won awards for her novels, short fiction and children's writing. Potiki (1987), which she wrote during her Victoria University Fellowship, won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and international awards. Her most recent publication is the novel Baby No-Eyes (1999). She is of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa descent. She was awarded an Honorary DLitt by Victoria University in 1989.

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