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First Novelist Award was created in 2001.
John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. He was the first novelist to deal with the issues of the industrial revolution, he has been called the first political novelist in the English language.
The MaoriThe Maori are New Zealand's first nation peoples.
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Maori was indeed the first lnguage in New Zealand, being spoken by the indigenous peoples, the Maori. Maori is already one of the three official languages of New Zealand, English, Maori, and New Zealand Sign Language. Though Maori is the language of the first nations people, the Maori, it is not spoken by the majority of the peoples of the country. And English is a widely spoken language internationally.
No, the Maori were the first people to settle the islands we now call New Zealand.
The early Maori's first came to New Zealand more than 1000 years ago, and chief kupe was the first Maori who arrived to New Zealand .
Potatau Te Wherowhero, the first Maori King.
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It's considered that the first inhabitants of the territory of New Zealand were the Maoris. According to them, the first explorer that reached that land was called Kupe, he navigated following the stars and ocean currents, he came from his native Polynesia, concretely from the island of Hawaiki, approximately 1000 years ago.
The first novelist to win the Jnanpith Award, which is India's highest literary honor, was K. Shivaram Karanth in 1977 for his contributions to Kannada literature.