新西兰是一个主要由两个民族——欧洲白人移民和土著毛利人组成的国家。因此,新西兰存在着两种文化传统和两种语言。从六十年代开始,第一代毛利人作家已正式登上新西兰文学舞台,开始了“毛利人写毛利人”的毛利文化复兴时代,而从七十年代到现在,毛利人文学更呈现出一派繁荣景象。 New Zealand is a country composed mainly of two peoples - European white immigrants and indigenous Maori. Therefore, New Zealand has two cultural traditions and two languages. Since the 1960s, the first generation of Maori writers have officially boarded the stage of New Zealand literature and started the era of Maori culture revival of “Maori writing Maori”. From the seventies to the present, however, Maori literature showed more faction Prosperity scene.