What is Rowley Habib?
{{Infobox writer | name = Rowley Habib | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Rowley habib-jmc-1969.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Habib in 1969 | native_name = Rore Hapipi | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|04|24|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|04|03|1933|04|24|df=y}} | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = | notableworks = <!-- or: | notablework = --> | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = }} '''Rowley Habib''' (24 April 1933 – 3 April 2016), also known as '''Rore Hapipi''', was a [[New Zealand]] [[poet]], playwright, and writer of short stories and television scripts. In short story writing, from 1956 to 1971 Habib was a regular contributor to ''Te Ao Hou The New World'', a magazine for [[Māori people|Māori]].<ref>Ed. Maggie Awadalla and Paul March-Russell. ''The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays''. Palgrave Macmillan 2013</ref> In 1984, Habib was awarded the [[New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize|Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mansfieldfellowship.org/fellows.html |title=Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship: list of fellows |publisher=Creative New Zealand |access-date=5 April 2016 |archive-date=9 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709163839/http://mansfieldfellowship.org/fellows.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2013, [[Creative New Zealand]] awarded him a Ngā Tohu a Tā Kingi Ihaka Te Waka Toi Award in recognition of his lifetime of service to Māori arts,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/news/creative-new-zealand-mourns-rore-hapipi |title=Creative New Zealand mourns the passing of Rore Hapipi (Rowley Habib