Meralda Elva Junior Warren was born on 28 June 1959 and is an artist and poet of the Pitcairn Islands, a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific.
11 Facts About Meralda Warren
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Meralda Warren has published a cookbook featuring Pitcairn Island cuisine.
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Meralda Warren was born on Pitcairn Island on 28 June 1959, the second child of Jacob Ralph "Chippie" Meralda Warren.
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Meralda Warren is the descendant of mutineers from the famed Mutiny on the Bounty and of the Tahitian men and women who journeyed with the mutineers in settling the island in 1790.
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Meralda Warren is a poet, and the author of two books, including Mi Base side orn Pitcairn, written with children on Pitcairn Island.
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Meralda Warren's works include a cookbook, Taste of Pitcairn featuring the cuisine of the Pitcairn Islands, and poetry in both Pitkern and English.
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In 2007, Meralda Warren revived Pitcairn's tradition of art created on tapa cloth, a woven bark cloth common in Polynesian culture.
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Meralda Warren's works have been displayed in museums and galleries in Tahiti, Norfolk Island, and New Zealand.
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Meralda Warren is the first recipient from the Pitcairn Islands.
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Meralda Warren had no qualifications or formal training to be a police officer, and was given the job because everyone on the island had a "job".
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Meralda Warren was elected on 15 December 2004 to the Island Council.