Bruce Stewart (playwright)
Bruce Stewart | |
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Tawatawa Ridge sculpture | |
| Born | Bruce Richard Stewart 5 August 1936 Hamilton, New Zealand |
| Died | 28 June 2017 (aged 80) Wellington, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Education | Wairarapa College |
| Subject | Anger, confused loyalties and spiritual aspiration of late-20th-century Māori |
| Notable works | Tama, and Other Stories |
Bruce Richard Stewart (5 August 1936 – 28 June 2017) was a New Zealand fiction writer and dramatist of Ngāti Raukawa Te Arawa descent. Stewart's work often expresses the anger, the confused loyalties, and the spiritual aspirations of late-twentieth-century Māori. He set up a marae called Tapu Te Ranga in the 1970s in Island Bay in Wellington, and lived there until his death.