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Aroha Awarau

Aroha Edward Awarau was a New Zealand journalist and playwright. He won the 2008 New Zealand Magazine Journalist of the Year at the annual Magazine Publisher's Association Awards. He was a finalist again for the same award in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2016. In 2013, he was awarded the New Zealand Celebrity and Entertainment Magazine Journalist of the Year at the Magazine Publisher's Awards.

Life and career
Awarau was born on 21 January 1976 in Hāwera, where he also grew up. While still at high school, Awarau was the first writer to become a three-time winner of the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Award. The annual award was created by the South Taranaki District Council to commemorate Hāwera's most famous author, Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Awarau died at a hospice in Ponsonby, on 14 January 2026, at the age of 49. ==References==
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