Tessa Duder

Margaret Mahy (eBook, ePUB)

A Writer's Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A literary portrait of New Zealand's best-loved children's author
Margaret Mahy's death on 23 July 2012 brought forth an unprecedented outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes from around New Zealand and the world. Her passing at 76 was breaking news in the media, unstoppable through the social networks, noted by political leaders in Parliament and by children in classrooms throughout the country.Margaret was one of the world's leading authors for younger readers for four decades. In her own country she was popularly known as the writer in the multicoloured wig who wrote marvellously funny picture books and enchanted generations of school children. Her story had its fairy-tale elements. In 1968, a hard-pressed solo mother of two daughters, working as a librarian by day and writing long into the night, she was 'discovered' by a leading American publisher who flew 'to the end of the earth' to offer her a multi-book publishing contract.From those first picture books, through the great novels of the 1980s and new books and awards right up to the year of her death, she came to be regarded as the third in New Zealand's literary pantheon, alongside Katherine Mansfield and Janet Frame. In 2006 her achievements were recognised by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People), awarding her the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the world's 'Little Nobel', for her distinguished contribution to children's literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775490357
• Artikelnr.: 47433732

Autorenporträt

Tessa Dudertrained as a journalist and raised four daughters before publishing her firstnovel in her late thirties. Some fifty books have followed, for both adult andyoung readers: novels (notably the best-seller Alex quartet), shortstory collections, non-fiction, biographies, anthologies and plays. Her writingshows her deep love of the sea - in 2013 she crossed the Tasman Sea under sailon the tall ship Spirit of New Zealand - and a life-long interest inearly New Zealand history, particularly of the Auckland region. Her awards haveincluded multiple children's book prizes, the University of Waikato writers'residency, the Katherine Mansfield fellowship to Menton, France, an Artists toAntarctica fellowship, the OBE and an Honorary Doctorate from the University ofWaikato. She lives in the sea-girt city of Auckland, New Zealand.