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Beloved New Sjaelland children’s framer Margaret Mahy dies; 2-time Carnegie Honor winner
WELLINGTON, Fresh Zealand – Beloved Newborn Zealand children’s author Margaret Mahy, who wrote enhanced than Cardinal books deliver earned approval at impress and in foreign lands, has dreary at say publicly age cherished 76.
She sound Monday aft being diagnosed with crab, her relative Ron Mahy said.
Mahy’s best-known books encompass “A Uprising in say publicly Meadow,” ”The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate” and “Bubble Trouble.”
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Authorgraph No.24: Margaret Mahy
As a writer, and as a person, Margaret Mahy isn’t easy to categorise. She both loves and resists her New Zealandiness; she wards off all attempts to turn her into a moralist yet fiercely defends the significance of the craft she practices; she’s a fantasist who claims ‘I always write about real life’; she has a zest and flair that can bring her a bullseye where many other authors don’t even recognise there’s a target… and at the same time she can’t offer any guarantees that a new book of hers won’t misfire completely. In short, she’s a writer who takes risks, who’s always changing, always capable of growth.
But then, the last person to be impressed by the writing of Margaret Mahy is Margaret Mahy herself. ‘I always start writing a story with a lot of optimism; that this time I have a really good idea. Then towards the end I start to lose confidence. The minute I had posted The Haunting I thought it was dreadful. Then they wrote and said they liked it so I thought it must be good after all.’ Certainly it was good enough for the British Library Association who awarded it the 1983 Carnegie Medal. Yet so inventive and unpredictable is this New-Zealand-based, internationally-known author that at least two other books have a claim
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Margaret Mahy
New Zealand children's writer (1936–2012)
Margaret MahyONZ (21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature".[1][2]
Mahy won the annual Carnegie Medal twice. It recognises the year's best children's book by a British subject, and she won for both The Haunting (1982) and The Changeover (1984).[3][4] (As of 2012 just seven writers have won two Carnegies, none three.) She was also a highly commended runner up for Memory (1987).[5][a]
Among her children's books, A Lion in the Meadow and The Seven Chinese Brothers and The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate are considered national classics.[6] Her novels have been translated into Te Reo Māori, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Catalan and Afrikaans. In addit