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Robert Sullivan ( * 1967) is a Māori writer from Aotearoa/New Zealand. ==Biography and writing== Robert Sullivan is of Māori and Irish Galway descent. He belongs to the Māori tribes Ngā Puhi (Ngāti Manu/Ngāti Hau) as well as to Kāi Tahu and describes himself as multicultural. He graduated from the University of Auckland with an MA and worked as associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Programme at the University of Hawai'i.〔 Green, P., and Ricketts, H., 99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry, Vintage, 2010.〕 Robert currently teaches a popular creative writing class at MIT's MSVA Campus. So far, he has published several books and collections of different style and theme - but all explore dimensions of Māori tradition as well as "contemporary urban experiences, including local racial and social concerns." His writing has a post modern feel and shows acute awareness of important Aotearoa/New Zealand issues while linking them in a complex way back to the cultural past.〔JENSEN, K. „Sullivan, Robert.“ The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. R. Robinson & N. Wattie (Hg.). Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1998, 519.〕 In the poetic narrative ''Star Waka'' (1999) for example, Mr. Sullivan employs traditional Māori story-telling techniques (oral tradition) in order to link contemporary and traditional topics from Aotearoa/New Zealand with concepts and ideas from a European background. This approach allows him to study the identity relation between Māori and Pākehā within transcultural themes of voyaging, personal and national, of the poet and of Māori. In a sense, the poems in ''Star Waka'' "themselves function like a waka." "Star Waka" was "lauded for its poetic flair".〔 He is one of the editors of the online journal (''trout'' ) since its foundation in 1997.〔http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/sullivanrobert.html〕 Sullivan is also the founder of the new Journal Ika 〔http://www.manukau.ac.nz/creativearts/school-of-creative-writing〕 which will be giving students of the Creative Writing School at Manukau Institute of Technology the opportunity to showcase their work. At the moment, Robert Sullivan is - supported by several literary awards and his successful professional career - "widely seen as one of the most important contemporary Māori poets."〔"SULLIVAN, R.“ Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. D. HEAD (Hg.). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006, 1078.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Sullivan (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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