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   Maurice Gee, New Zealand novelist best known for his realistic evocations of New Zealand life and his fantastical tales for young adults. His most notable work is the Plumb trilogy, which examines the lives of three generations of a New Zealand family.

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   Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand and overseas, including multiple top prizes at the New Zealand Book Awards, the James Tait Black ...

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   Maurice Gee has 51 books on Goodreads with 15654 ratings. Maurice Gee’s most popular book is Under the Mountain.

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   Jan 1, 1978 · Maurice Gee. 3.89. 478 ratings45 reviews. Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and ...

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5. www.metromag.co.nz › arts › arts-booksMetro — Maurice Gee: Life and Work - review

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   Dec 8, 2015 · Maurice Gee: Life and Work is a rarity — an authorised biography with no subject-strings attached. Gee simply told Barrowman to go and write it, before others less talented — less authorised — took it upon themselves to do so.

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   If not, help out and invite Maurice to Goodreads. About Maurice Gee: One of New Zealand’s most distinguished novelists, born in Whakatane, passed much of his childhood in the country town of Henderson (n...

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   • If not, help out and invite Maurice to Goodreads. About Maurice Gee: One of New Zealand’s most distinguished novelists, born in Whakatane, passed much of his childhood in the country town of Henderson (n...

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   What books did Maurice Gee write?

   • Maurice Gee's novel Blindsight (Penguin Books, 2005) won the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the Montana Award for Fiction at the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Gee also jointly received the Readers' Choice Award with Fiona Kidman.

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   Who is Maurice Gee?

   • Maurice Gee (born August 22, 1931, Whaketane, New Zealand) is a New Zealand novelist best known for his realistic evocations of New Zealand life and his fantastical tales for young adults. Gee earned a master’s degree in English (1954) from Auckland University College of the University of New Zealand (later the University of Auckland).

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   Is Gee a good writer?

   • In 1993, Andro Linklater, writing in British newspaper The Sunday Times, said that "Gee deserves to be regarded as one of the finest writers at work, not only in New Zealand ... but in the English speaking world".

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   Will Gee write a new book?

   • Although Gee said in 2012 that he did not expect to write another novel, The Severed Land was published in 2017, and received the top award for young adult fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in that same year. In 2018 Gee published his memoir Memory Pieces.

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   What makes Gee a great writer?

   • His short stories and novels are characterised by their real or imaginatively-reworked local settings, dysfunctional families and sketches of violence. Gee’s numerous publications and his wide readership have contributed to his reputation as one of New Zealand’s most significant writers of fiction.

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   Maurice Gee is a distinguished New Zealand fiction writer. He has received numerous awards, nominations and grants for both his adult fiction and his young adult and children’s books, and was bestowed the prestigious Icon Award in 2003 by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand.