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Sia Figiel is an author of novels, poetry, and plays. Figiel is highly reputable and has residences at several Universities such as the University of Technology in Sydney, the East-West Center in Hawaii, the Pacific Writing Forum at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, and Logoipulotu College in Savaii.

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Sia Figiel has published poetry in the collections: “Girl in the Moon Circle” in 1996, and “To a Young Artist in Contemplation” in 1998 these are in addition to her two novels Where We Once Belonged in 1996 and They Who Do Not Grieve in 1999. Figiel also does performance poetry at literary festivals.

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Sia Figiel won “the Best First Book award in the South East Asia/South Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1997” this award was for her novel Where We Once Belonged. Sia Figiel’s poetry also won the Polynesian Literary Competition in 1994.