Bruce Richard Stewart (5 August 1936 – 28 June 2017) was a New Zealand fiction writer and dramatist of Ngāti Raukawa Te Arawa descent.

He set up a marae called Tapu Te Ranga in the 1970s in Island Bay in Wellington, and lived there until his death.

His Pākehā biological father had no involvement with him, and his Māori mother Molly Daphne Hirini has said that her Tainui tribe frowned on mixed-race children.

[3] This was a centre for debate and education in Māori culture and protocol and for the redevelopment of native bush[4] until destroyed by fire in 2019.

[5] Broken Arse was published in Into the World of Light (1982) and Stewart later rewrote it as a playscript, which was performed in Wellington in 1990 as part of the New Zealand Festival at the Depot Theatre as part of the Theatre Marae season by Te Rākau Hua o Te Wao Tapu.