Teupoko'ina Utanga Morgan

Teupoko'ina Utanga Morgan QSM (1934–2007), also known as Teupoko Ina Morgan and Poko Morgan, was a Cook Islands writer of children's books and song books.

Biography

Morgan was born in 1934 in the village of Ruatonga in Rarotonga and in 1973 moved to New Zealand.[1] She was director of the Anau Ako Pasifika project in Tokoroa in the North Island, which specialised in creating resources for learning Pacific languages.[1] As part of this work, she collected oral histories from her home village and published them in 1986 as Te Ma'ara'anga - Te 'Imene e te Pe'e. The narratives are accompanied by original melodies and can be read or sung.[1] In the 1990s she wrote and published a series of children's books in Rarotongan, which were translated into Samoan,[2] and two volumes of Cook Islands songs and verse for children.[3]

In 1986, Morgan was awarded the Queen's Service Medal and in 1990, she received a Fulbright Program study grant.[4]

Morgan also wrote a non-fiction work on the experiences of Cook Islands women in New Zealand, titled Cook Islands women pioneers : early experiences in New Zealand = Vainetini kuki airani (2001).[5]

After her death in 2007,[6] Anau Ako Pasifika established the Teupoko'ina Utanga Morgan Memorial Award to encourage the development of Pacific early childhood education services.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Robinson, R & Wattie, N (1998). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Auckland, New Zealand: Oxford University Press. p. 380. ISBN 0 19 558348 5.
  2. ↑ "Paraku tita / Teupoko Ina Morgan". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Guidelines for Cook Islands Maori Language Programmes". webcache.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  4. 1 2 "Scholarship Details - Auckland University of Technology". www.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  5. ↑ "Cook Islands women pioneers : early experiences in New Zealand = Vainetini kuki airani". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "MORGAN buried TOKOROA, PUTARURU & TIRAU :: FamilyTreeCircles.com Genealogy". www.familytreecircles.com. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
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