to her in dreams; she first dreamt of a mute, long-haired boy when she was 18, and wrote a short story about him called Simon Peter’s Shell. The boy continued to appear in her dreams and eventually became the main character of the bone people. Personal life and death In 1973, Hulme won a land ballot and became the owner of a plot in the remote coastal settlement of Ōkārito in south Westland, on the South Island of New Zealand. She built an octagonal house on the land and spent most of her adult life (almost 40 years) there. She vocally opposed plans to develop the settlement with additional housing or tourist facilities and believed it deserved special government protection. In late 2011, Hulme announced that she was leaving the area as local body rates (property taxes) meant she could no longer afford to live there. She identified as atheist, aromantic, and asexual. Hulme's given name was recorded at birth as Kerry, although her family used the name Keri; she officially changed her name to Keri in 2001. She died from dementia at a care home in Waimate on 27 December 2021, at the age of 74. Works Novels The Bone People (Spiral Press, 1984) BAIT and On the Shadow Side (unfinished) Poetry The silences between (Moeraki Conversations) (Auckland University Press, 1982) Lost Possessions (Victoria University Press, 1985) Strands (Auckland University Press, 1993) Other works Te Kaihau: The Windeater (Victoria University Press, 1986), collection of short stories Te Whenua, Te Iwi/The Land and The People co-edited with Jock Philips (Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, 1987), includes Hulme's autobiographical piece "Okatiro and Moeraki" Homeplaces: Three Coasts of the South Island of New Zealand (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989), autobiography Hokitika Handmade (Hokitika Craft Gallery Co-operative, 1999), description and history of the co-operative and its members Ahua – the story of Moki (2000), libretto of an opera based on the story of the Ngāi Tahu ancestor Moki, commissioned by the Christchurch City Choir Stonefish (Huia Publishers, 2004), collection of short stories and poems Adaptation into film In 1983, Hulme's short story "Hooks and Feelers" was made into a short film of the same name starring Bridgette Allen. Awards See also New Zealand literature References External links Bibliography of Keri Hulme's work and associated book reviews, University of Auckland Library How Keri Hulme's the bone people changed the way we read now, the Booker