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The relative lack of attention Gee has received from literary critics in New Zealand marks a huge gap in New Zealand criticism; certainly he has received far less than his stature as a writer deserves and I suspect that this reflects the influence of literary fashion.3 Though Gee has
New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and scriptwriter. Gee, whose writings reflect a strong sense of New Zealand life, was little recognized outside of his native country until the ...
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 ...
As well as writing adult fiction, Gee has written for television (including Close to Home and Mortimer’s Patch). His books include award winning novels: Plumb (1978), Live Bodies (1998) and Blindsight (2005) and children’s classics: Under the Mountain (1979) and The Halfmen of O (1980).
Gee wrote on through the decades, gifting us Going West, Crime Story, Ellie and the Shadow Man, Blindsight and finally, in 2009, Access Road. Hearing it was to be his last novel felt like bereavement: sadness tinged with the tiniest flutter of relief that the itching and scratching might be over.
Interpellating Maurice Gee contribution to critical readings of adolescents in youth literature, Trites's position is essentially Foucauldian with some important qualifications over subjectivity. Hale points out that Trites's model for coming of age does not entirely work with Gee (p. 94), whose characters might grow up but remain
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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.
