![]() ![]() ![]() His mother, Harriet Lyndahl Gee ( née Chapple), was a socialist and an aspiring writer who had some of her work published, including a children's picture book called Mihi and the Last of the Moas (1943), and his father, Leonard Gee, was a carpenter. Gee was born in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty Region, and brought up in Henderson, a suburb of Auckland, a location that frequently features in his writing. He has won multiple top prizes at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and in 2002 he was presented with the prestigious Margaret Mahy Award by the Children's Literature Foundation in recognition of his contributions to children's literature. He is also well-known for children's and young adult fiction such as Under the Mountain (1979). Gee's novel Plumb (1978) is considered one of the best novels ever written in New Zealand. In 2003 he was recognised as one of New Zealand's greatest living artists across all disciplines by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, which presented him with an Icon Award. 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 Memorial Prize in the UK, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, the Robert Burns Fellowship and a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. ![]()
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