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Margaret Mahy

1936 - 2012

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Margaret Mahy (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". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Mahy is the 5,825th most popular writer (down from 5,748th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 72nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular New Zealander Writer.

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Among writers, Margaret Mahy ranks 5,825 out of 7,302. Before her are Donald Richie, John Clare, Miquel-Lluís Muntané, Vjenceslav Novak, Markus Zusak, and Oktay Rıfat Horozcu. After her are Derrick Jensen, Olavi Paavolainen, Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Kay Redfield Jamison, José Santos Chocano, and Anita Desai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Margaret Mahy ranks 492. Before her are Žarko Nikolić, Hugh Anderson, Isaac Berger, Ernest Shonekan, Jerónimo Saavedra, and Hal Greer. After her are Carey Bell, Dimitar Largov, Robert F. Overmyer, David Hess, Herbert Boyer, and Tunne Kelam. Among people deceased in 2012, Margaret Mahy ranks 384. Before her are J. Bernlef, Vasily Belov, Jenni Rivera, Rino Ferrario, Eric Sykes, and Verghese Kurien. After her are Vladimir Astapovsky, Takao Sakurai, Boris Razinsky, Robert Sabatier, Peter Struck, and Georg Leber.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Margaret Mahy ranks 90 out of 303. Before her are John Nicholson (1941), David Lange (1942), Dudley Storey (1939), Hugh Anderson (1936), Eric Verdonk (1959), and Murray Halberg (1933). After her are Jack Lovelock (1910), Ross Collinge (1944), Neil Finn (1958), Jemaine Clement (1974), Juliet Mitchell (1940), and John Hunter (1943).

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Among WRITERS In New Zealand

Among writers born in New Zealand, Margaret Mahy ranks 7. Before her are Katherine Mansfield (1888), Richard Curtis (1956), Janet Frame (1924), Ngaio Marsh (1895), Hugh Walpole (1884), and Keri Hulme (1947). After her are Philippa Boyens (2000), Anthony McCarten (1961), and Ruth Park (1917).

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