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Vaughan Rapatahana
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Vaughan Rapatahana commutes between Hong Kong SAR, the Philippines and Aotearoa New Zealand. He is widely published across several genre in both his main languages, te reo M ori and English. He earned a Ph. D from the University of Auckland with a thesis about Colin Wilson and has written extensively about this writer. He lectured on Wilson at the second Colin Wilson conference in Nottingham, England in July 2018. Rapatahana is a critic of the agencies of English language proliferation in communities which are traditionally not English as first language, inaugurating and co-editing English language as Hydra and Why English? Confronting the Hydra (Multilingual Matters, U.K., 2012 and 2016.) Rapatahana is a poet, with several collections published in Hong Kong; Macau; Philippines; USA; England; France and New Zealand. His Atonement was nominated for a National Book Award in Philippines in 2016; he won the inaugural Proverse Poetry Prize the same year; and was included in Best New Zealand Poets in 2017. He has also written commentaries for Jacket2 (University of Pennsylvania), including a 2015/2016 series and a new series currently in progress. Three new books were planned for early 2019 and two have already been published a collection of his work on Colin Wilson and the first ever collection of Waikato (New Zealand) poets, which he inaugurated and edited. New Zealand Book Council Writers File is https://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writer/rapatahana-vaugh
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