Albert Wendt - Pacific Laureate

Professor Albert Wendt has Aotearoa’s highest honour: admission to the Order of New Zealand Merit (a status restricted to 20 living people). Celebrate the Samoan-born writer’s contribution to the culture via excerpts from screen adaptations of his classic novels: Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree and Sons for the Return Home (the first novel published in English by a Samoan); and an excerpt from Shirley Horrocks' Wendt doco The New Oceania, where he reflects on arrival and autobiography, and racism, rugby and cross-cultural romance.