Nic Low
Nic Low is a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer of Ngāi Tahu Māori and European descent. His essays and short fiction have been published and anthologised widely in Australia and New Zealand. His first book, the satirical short story collection Arms Race, was an Australian Book Review and Listener book of the year, and shortlisted for the Readings Prize and Queensland Literary Awards. He is currently finishing his second book, a Māori history of the Southern Alps told through walking journeys; and a judge for the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Find him at www.dislocated.org.
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Unfollow The Map
If Low gives up on wilderness as a place where scaling ice capped mountains, camping in freezing conditions and traversing icy rivers is about gaining knowledge or progress he does so to reveal the colonial histories which relied on this sort of mythmaking to fortify their connection to the landscape.