# Te Kaikaukau | The Swimmer, Vol. 1

By **Witi Ihimaera Smiler**

- ISBN-13: 9781776712380
- Publisher: Auckland University Press
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 340
- Published: 14 May 2026
- Language: en
- Categories: Memoirs, Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Literature

## About this book

Novelist, memoirist and playwright Witi Ihimaera – author of Pounamu, Pounamu and The Whale Rider – decided, at the age of eighty, to dive back into the water and spend a year full time at Te Wānanga Takiura, immersing himself in his own language, in te reo Māori. This book tells the story of this kaikaukau, this swimm

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