| Maurice
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| Nationality - New Zealander |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 22 Aug 1931
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Date of death - Still with us |
| Place of birth
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Maurice Gee was born in Whakatane, New Zealand on August 22, 1931.
He spent his childhood in the country town of Henderson - a town that finds many fictional equivalents in his writing.
Gee gained an MA in English Literature in 1954 and initially worked as a schoolteacher in Paeroa, but found little to enjoy in the profession.
Maurice spent 1961 teaching and writing in England, partly supported by a grant from the New Zealand Literary Fund - a testimony to his growing literary status.
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A year later The Big Season, Gee's first novel was published, but Gee's real literary breakthrough came with the publication of his adult trilogy; Plumb (1978), Meg (1981) and Sole Survivor (1983) which provided a broadly conceived image of life in New Zealand over three generations.
With the success of his adult fiction Maurice soon ventured into writing for children and as a result of this, many of the children growing up with Maurice's hugely captivating children's books have also turned into enthusiastic readers of his adult work.
Gee's fiction has won him several awards including the New Zealand Fiction Award, the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award.
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Maurice Gee
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The
Maurice Gee
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All
the Maurice Gee
books listed below are currently for sale
on our website - we may have some others in
stock so please ask if you don't see the title
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