Rexford Orotaloa

Rexford Tom Orotaloa (born 1956) is a Solomon Islands writer best known for the novel Two Times Resurrection and the story collection Suremada: Faces from a Solomon Island Village. His work often focuses on the conflict between modern and traditional culture.

Early life Orotaloa was born in 1956 and raised in a village on the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands. He was raised by his grandfather, who taught him traditional tribal chants and songs. He was educated at the King George VI School in the Solomons capital city of Honiara, Guadalcanal.

Orotaloa also worked as a teacher and secretary to the local court in Malaita. In the journal World Literature Today, Stephen Oxenham wrote that the novel's "fusion of oral and literary convention gives it a peculiar power and charm". He called Orotaloa "a writer of unusual and highly individual perception," whose work "is unlikely to have any counterpart in modern Pacific writing."

The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia said that Orotaloa's "episodic semi-autobiography and loosely connected stories can be ungainly at times, but are always lively."