Interview with Albert Wendt

Albert Tuaopepe Wendt is the most acclaimed novelist, poet and short story writer from Samoa1 and the South Pacific literary region. Born in 1939 in Western Samoa, he is a member of the aiga (extended family) Sa-Tuaopepe, branch of the Sa-Tuala and he was brought up in Apia where he completed his primary school education. In 1952, he was granted a scholarship from the New Zealand administration and moved to the New Plymouth Boys’ High School in New Zealand from where he graduated in 1957.