Margaret Mahy (1936–2012)
Autor/a de The Seven Chinese Brothers
Sobre l'autor
Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published mostra'n més in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de Margaret Mahy
Ultra-violet catastrophe! Or, The unexpected walk with Great-Uncle Magnus Pringle (1975) 71 exemplars
Mahy Magic : a Collection of the Most Magical Stories from the Margaret Mahy Story Books (1975) 8 exemplars
The horrible story and others : a collection of stories from the Margaret Mahy story books (1987) 6 exemplars
Braille at Bedtime : Chibbawokki rain and The Girl with the Green Ear Number 2 (1 vol Stock no.175) 2 exemplars
La bibliotecaria rapita 2 exemplars
El secreto de la bibliotecaria 1 exemplars
El Rescate Con El Chicle Y Otras Historias (The Rescue with Chewing Gum and Other Stories) 1 exemplars
An troid ar an chnoc 1 exemplars
my wonderful aunt story one 1 exemplars
Sunshine Books Set (The Mad Puppet, Tai Taylor is Born, Mr. Rumfitt, The Haunting of Miss Cardamon) 1 exemplars
Mr Rooster's Dilemma 1 exemplars
The Old Bus 1 exemplars
Las aventuras del cerdito ladrón 1 exemplars
Maddigan's Quest [TV show] 1 exemplars
Kiwi kids' collection 1 exemplars
Look Under V 1 exemplars
Secuestro de la bibliotecaria 1 exemplars
The Father who walker on Hands 1 exemplars
Obres associades
A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight (1995) — Col·laborador — 27 exemplars
Are Angels OK?: The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists (2006) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Monsters in the Garden : An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy (2021) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Writing at the Edge of the Universe: Essays From the Creative Writing in New Zealand Conference (2004) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Mahy, Margaret
- Nom oficial
- Mahy, Margaret
- Data de naixement
- 1936-03-21
- Data de defunció
- 2012-07-23
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Nieuw-Zeeland
- Lloc de naixement
- Whakatane, New Zealand
- Lloc de defunció
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Llocs de residència
- Governor's Bay, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
- Educació
- Auckland University College
Canterbury University College (B.A. | 1955)
New Zealand Library School - Professions
- librarian
writer-in-residence (Canterbury University ∙ 1984)
children's book author - Organitzacions
- Canterbury University
- Premis i honors
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (2006)
Member, Order of New Zealand
Honorary Doctorate ( [1985])
Artists to Antarctica (1998/99)
Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (2005)
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1989) (mostra-les totes 8)
Margaret Mahy Medal ( [1991])
Sir Julius Vogel Award (Services to Science Fiction and Fantasy ∙ 2006)
Membres
Converses
British YA novel from '80s - girl becomes a witch to save her little brother a Name that Book (febrer 2013)
RIP Margaret Mahy a The Green Dragon (agost 2012)
YA Sci-fi/Fantasy Alchemist??? a Name that Book (agost 2010)
Ressenyes
Llistes
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 254
- També de
- 25
- Membres
- 11,470
- Popularitat
- #2,048
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 359
- ISBN
- 1,295
- Llengües
- 16
- Preferit
- 24