Ani Hona

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. 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. she began to collect and collate Tai Tokerau taonga including whakapapa and waiata. Hona also worked as a translator for the Māori Land Court and the Alexander Turnbull Library. == Selected works ==

• He putanga maomao (Wellington, 1997) • A biography of Sir Graham Stanley Latimer (unpublished) Sometimes both languages were published side-by-side. == References ==