Maurice gee bio

          Maurice Gee (born August 22, , Whaketane, New Zealand) is a..

          Maurice Gee

          New Zealand novelist (born 1931)

          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 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 is a New Zealand novelist.

        1. Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August ) is a New Zealand novelist.
        2. Maurice Gee (born August 22, , Whaketane, New Zealand) is a.
        3. Gee was born in Whakatane, but grew up in Henderson — then a country town, now part of Auckland city.
        4. Born in Whakatane in , Gee was the middle son of three boys.

          5. 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.

          Gee's novel Plumb (1978) was described by the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature to be one of the best novels ever written in New Zealand.[1] He is also well-known for children's and young adult fiction such as Under the Mountain (1979).

          He has won mult