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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. Learn more about Gee’s life and career.
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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 ...
I first dipped my toes into the murky eddies (there we go, creek reference out of the way) of Maurice Gee’s fiction in 1987. Passing through a flat in London, I found a first edition copy of his third novel, In My Father’s Den, on a bookshelf.
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.
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).
Feb 17, 2005 · Maurice Gee is one of New Zealand's most significant living novelist, if “significance” is judged by the size, range, historical scope, thematic depth and consistent literary flair of an author's oeuvre.
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Plumb (1978) and its sequels, Meg (1981) and Sole Survivor (1983), have many ingredients of his earlier novels: With some religious and domestic flavor, the three books produce a saga on New Zealand life, focusing on its history and society succumbing to decay. The characters are outsiders and outcasts.
