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Marvel comic launched in te reo Māori

Maxine Jacobs

The action-packed adventures of the Marvel Universe are now accessible to te reo Māori readers in a newly released translation of the comic book Avengers vs X-Men.

Two of the most popular superhero teams go to war in an epic adventure in the first pop-culture comic to be translated into te reo Māori, Te Pakanga a Ngāti Rānaki me te RangaTipua, released by the Kotahi Rau Pukapuka Trust.

Readers will follow Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Magneto and more in a story that changes them all forever.

Trust chief executive Pānia Papa (Tainui) said it was the fifth popular book the trust had translated into te reo Māori. Using the well-known comic was a strategy to appeal not only to the masses, but also to young people who were less likely to engage in books and reading, she said.

Established in 2019, the trust’s goal was to release 100 books in te reo Māori to build a library to reflect one of New Zealand’s official languages and help Māori see themselves inmodernday literature.

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