Lemalu Tate Simi
Lemalu Samau Tate Simi (19 October 1952 - 17 April 2014) was a Samoan poet, rugby manager, civil servant and diplomat. He was Samoa's High Commissioner to Australia from 2009 to 2014. Lemalu trained as an architect in New Zealand and subsequently worked as a civil servant, rising to the position of chief executive of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour. In January 2009 he was appointed High Commissioner to Australia, a position he held until his death in 2014. He was also the team manager for the Samoa national rugby union team, and president of the Samoan Red Cross. Works
 A deeper song : poems (1992)

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2014 deaths
Samoan civil servants
1952 births
21st-century Samoan poets
20th-century Samoan poets
Samoan diplomats
High Commissioners to Australia
Samoan male poets