Kauraka Kauraka
Cook Islands writer
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| Intro | Cook Islands writer | |
| Places | New Zealand | |
| was | Writer Poet | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1951 | |
| Death | 1 January 1997 (aged 46 years) |
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Kauraka Kauraka (5 September 1951–1997) was a Cook Islands writer. He was born in Rarotonga, the main island of the Cooks. Kauraka studied in New Zealand, Fiji and other countries. He published six collections of poems in the English and Rarotongan languages. When Kauraka died in 1997, he was buried on the atoll of Manihiki, northern Cooks.