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Margaret Mahy
Margaret Mahy is a New Zealand author on books for children and teenagers. Many of his conspiracies have powerful supernatural elements, but his works focus on themes of relationships and human development. She has written more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At the time of her death, she was one of thirty writers to win the Hans Christian Andersen Medal internationally every two years for her “enduring contribution to children's literature”. Mahy won the Library Association's annual Carnegie Medal, recognizing the best children's book of the year on a British theme, for both The Haunting and The Changeover. She is also a hired runner for Memory. Among his children's books, A Lion on the Prairie, The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate are considered national classics. His novels have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and Afrikaans.
BornMarch 21, 1936, Whakatane, New Zealand
DiedJuly 23, 2012, Christchurch, New Zealand
OccupationWriter, librarian
LanguageEnglish
Period1969–2012
GenreChildren's picture books, supernatural fiction
Notable worksA Lion in the Meadow, The Haunting, The Changeover
Notable awardsCarnegie Medal, 1982, 1984, Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing, 2006

About Margaret Mahy

Young Adult Author Margaret Mahy was born in New Zealand on March 21, 1936. She dies at the age of 76, on July 23, 2012.

Mahy is best known for her Carnegie Medal-winning young adult novels The Changeover and The Haunting, but she also wrote the classics The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Lion in the Meadow, which have been widely translated.

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Margaret Mahy before becoming famous

Margaret Mahy was born in the Zodiac sign Aries (The Ram), and 1936 is also the year of Rat (鼠) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She qualified as a librarian after studying at both Auckland University College and Canterbury University College, and was eventually hired as the chief Children's Librarian at the Canterbury Public Library.

Achievement of Margaret Mahy

The 2006 Children's Author Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2003 New Zealand Post Children's Book Award, and the 2005 Phoenix Award are among her numerous literary accolades.

Margaret Mahy's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She grew up in Whakatane, New Zealand, with her four younger siblings. She and her two girls eventually relocated in Canterbury, New Zealand (whom she raised alone).

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Margaret Mahy Collabed with

She and Children's Author Joy Cowley are both well-known New Zealand children's authors.

Margaret Mahy Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Margaret Mahy updated on March 19 2023.