Aroha Awarau
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Aroha Edward Awarau is an award winning journalist who won the 2008 New Zealand Magazine Journalist of the Year (Mass Market) at the annual Magazine Publisher’s Association Award.
He is currently working as a journalist at New Zealand Woman's Weekly
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Awarau has a degree in Film and Television from the University of Waikato
and a Journalism degree from the Auckland University of Technology
. After leaving Waikato university in 1998, Awarau worked in the New Zealand film industry for two years, working on films such as What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
and The Price of Milk.
Awarau also had a short stint as a stand up comedian, becoming a finalist in the Raw Quest, a national competition to find the best new comedian and appeared as a contestant in the reality show, So You Think You’re Funny? , a competition to find New Zealand’s funniest new comedian.
While still at high school Awarau was the first and so far the only writer to become a three time winner of the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Award. The annual award was created by the South Taranaki District Council to commemorate Hawera’s most famous author, Ronald Hugh Morrieson
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He is currently working as a journalist at New Zealand Woman's Weekly
New Zealand Woman's Weekly
The New Zealand Woman's Weekly is a weekly New Zealand women's magazine published by APN News & Media. , it has a circulation of 82,040, third by paid sales after TV Guide and New Zealand Woman's Day.-History:...
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Awarau has a degree in Film and Television from the University of Waikato
University of Waikato
The University of Waikato is located in Hamilton and Tauranga, New Zealand, and was established in 1964. It has strengths across a broad range of subject areas, particularly its degrees in Computer Science and in Management...
and a Journalism degree from the Auckland University of Technology
Auckland University of Technology
The Auckland University of Technology is a university in New Zealand. It was formed on 1 January 2000 when the Auckland Institute of Technology was granted university status. Its primary campus is on Wellesley Street in Auckland's Central business district...
. After leaving Waikato university in 1998, Awarau worked in the New Zealand film industry for two years, working on films such as What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? is a 1999 film, based on Alan Duff's 1996 novel. The film was directed by Ian Mune, and starred Temuera Morrison as abusive Māori husband Jake "the Muss" Heke. The novel is the sequel to Duff's 1990 novel Once Were Warriors, which was made into a 1994 film...
and The Price of Milk.
Awarau also had a short stint as a stand up comedian, becoming a finalist in the Raw Quest, a national competition to find the best new comedian and appeared as a contestant in the reality show, So You Think You’re Funny? , a competition to find New Zealand’s funniest new comedian.
While still at high school Awarau was the first and so far the only writer to become a three time winner of the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Award. The annual award was created by the South Taranaki District Council to commemorate Hawera’s most famous author, Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Ronald Hugh Morrieson of Hawera, Taranaki was a novelist and short story writer in the New Zealand vernacular. He earned his living as a...
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