Ani Hona
Te Āniwaniwa Harepeka Nako Bosch (18 April 1938 – 29 June 1997) was a New Zealand Māori writer, poet and founding member of the Te Reo Māori Society. She published under the names Ani Hona and Te Aniwa Bosch. Biography Te Āniwaniwa Harepeka Nako Hona was born in 1938 at Mahinepua in "her grandmother's wash house". She grew up near Whangaroa Harbour and her base marae was Ngātiruamahue. Her father was a local policeman, who undertook successful campaigns against alcohol abuse and home brewing. She went to school at Wainui, and later to Northland College; she trained as a psychiatric nurse but later switched from nursing to a career in teaching. She studied at Wellington Teachers' College and Victoria University of Wellington, then later taught at Whangaroa College. She married John Barnard Bosch. They had three children. She died in 1997. Māori language writing and activism Hona began to publish her writing in the 1960s under the name Te Aniwa Bosch, in journals from New Zealand, such as Te Ao Hou / The New World, Te Maori, Pacific Moana Quarterly, and from India such as Ocarina. In 1976 she was awarded a grant by the Maori Purposes Board for a