Editing Kiribati (section)

===Outside perspectives===
[[Edward Carlyon Eliot]], who was Resident Commissioner of the [[Gilbert and Ellice Islands]] (now Kiribati and Tuvalu) from 1913 to 1920, describes this period in his autobiography ''Broken Atoms''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eliot |first1=Edward Carlyon |title=Broken Atoms |date=1938 |publisher=G. Bles |location=London |oclc=2721201}}</ref>

Sir [[Arthur Grimble]] wrote about his time working in the British colonial service in Kiribati (then the Gilbert Islands) from 1914 to 1932 in two popular books ''A Pattern of Islands'' (1952){{sfn|Grimble|1952}} and ''Return to the Islands'' (1957).<ref name="Guiart 2002 v450">{{cite web | last=Guiart | first=Jean | title=Oceanic Literature | website=Encyclopedia Britannica | date=August 2, 2002 | url=https://www.britannica.com/art/Oceanic-literature#ref364471 | access-date=May 6, 2024}}</ref> He also undertook academic studies of Gilbertese culture.{{sfn|Grimble|1989}}

[[John Hilary Smith|John Smith]], the last governor of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, wrote his memoir ''An Island in the Autumn'' (2011).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=John |title=An Island in the Autumn |date=2011 |publisher=Librario |isbn=978-1-906775-26-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcSGvwEACAAJ |language=en}}</ref>

[[J. Maarten Troost]]'s more recent autobiographical experiences in [[Tarawa]] are documented in his book ''[[The Sex Lives of Cannibals]]'' (2004).{{sfn|Troost|2004}}

Alice Piciocchi's illustrated essay, ''Kiribati. Cronache illustrate da una terra (s)perduta'', (2016) Milan: 24 ORE Cultura, also translated into French (2018, éditions du Rouergue), tries to write and portray a comprehensive encyclopaedic book of modern Kiribati.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Favier|first=Olivier|url=https://www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/20181004-litterature-roman-graphique-kiribati-portrait-monde-sursis|title=Les Kiribati: Portrait d'un monde en sursis|date=7 October 2018|language=fr}}</ref>