100 Words That Make Us Kiwi | Mark Broatch

There's nothing more Kiwi than a classic flat white while you stroll barefoot after a long day of mahi. Maybe you'll have on a pair of jandals or your trusty gumboots? Perhaps you're on the hunt for a sweet as meat pie?

Mark Broatch is a journalist and critic of three decades and is the author of three books, two on language, In a Word and Word to the Wise. A longtime literary editor, he is a trustee of the Matatuhi Foundation and has been an Ockham New Zealand Book Awards fiction judge, a peer assessor at Creative NZ Toi Aotearoa, a Buddle Findlay Sargaseon fellow and a resident at the Michael King Writers Centre.