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Shilo Kino

Shilo Kino
Shilo Kino is an author from Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Te Ata. Her debut novel, The Pōrangi Boy, won the Young Adult Fiction Award at the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards. In 2024 she released her first adult fiction novel, All That We Know, which debuted at number one on the NZ booksellers chart for fiction. Shilo was previously a TV journalist for Marae and has written for a number of publications such as Newsroom, NZ Herald, The Spinoff, The Guardian and North and South.


How Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider Helped Introduce Maori Literature to the World

Shilo Kino on the Novel That Represented and Reconnected New Zealand’s Indigenous People
August 4, 2025  By Shilo Kino
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