Culture 101: Bold Tahitian novelist Titaua Peu connects us back into the Pacific
Tahitian novelist Titaua Peu has for the last four months been French writer in residence at Randell Cottage in Pōneke Wellington. She is working on a new series of books. They present a near future marked by a reverse migration. One in which inhabitants of Aotearoa have migrated north to the island of Mangareva in French Polynesia following a great war.
Considered one of the principal French-speaking writers of the Pacific, Peu is known for work that considers Polynesian society today with attention to the effects of colonialism. Here she talks with Mark Amery of Culture 101, who visited her at the colonial cottage in Thorndon.