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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 ...
Maurice Gee has 51 books on Goodreads with 15654 ratings. Maurice Gee’s most popular book is Under the Mountain.
Oct 19, 2024 · Gee’s books resonate across genre, across decades, back and forward through time, across ages: the political and environmental messages of his fantasy fiction (The O Trilogy, Salt, Gool,...
The first book, Plumb (1978), covers the period from the 1890s through 1949; it is based on the career of Gee’s grandfather, a Presbyterian minister who was tried for heresy by his church and jailed for sedition by the state.
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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.
Genre. Fiction, Children's. edit data. One of New Zealand’s most distinguished novelists, born in Whakatane, passed much of his childhood in the country town of Henderson (now contained by Auckland’s urban sprawl), and this background plays a major role in his fiction.
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Dec 8, 2015 · It was July 9, the event was the launch of historian Rachel Barrowman’s long-awaited biography on New Zealand’s pre-eminent lurking, watching, listening writer, Maurice Gee. Nearly 10 years in the writing, the book promised to turn the tables on its subject, tell all his secrets.
