Margaret Mahy is New Zealand’s most celebrated writer for children and young adults. In a 55-year career she published more than 120 titles: novels, picture books, short stories, poems and educational texts, as well as writing for film and television.

Margaret Mahy (1936–2012) is New Zealand’s most celebrated children’s writer. As the author of more than 120 titles - which have since been translated into 15 different languages – Mahy’s readership is vast. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a librarian for over 10 years.

2012年7月26日 · Margaret Mahy, an award-winning children’s author who tested the limits of her readers’ whimsy and courage with fantastical tales of witches, hauntings, infinite fog, and robbers brought to...

2012年7月23日 · Author Margaret Mahy's list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.

Margaret Mahy has lived in New Zealand her entire life. A former children’s librarian, she decided to become a full-time writer in 1980. From picture books to YA novels, the age groups for which she writes vary as much as the characters in her stories.

Margaret Mahy is often grouped with Katherine Mansfield and Janet Frame as the third writer from New Zealand, of acknowledged genius, whose body of work has made a major and lasting contribution to world literature. Learn more about this local hero.

Margaret Mahy was born on 21 March 1936 in Whakatane, New Zealand. She was a writer and actress, known for The Great White Man-Eating Shark (1992), Up Our Street (1985) and The Changeover (2017). She died on 23 July 2012 in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Margaret Mahy. Fiction, Nonfiction and Children's Literature Writer. Born: March 21, 1936; Birthplace: Whakatane, New Zealand; Died: July 23, 2012; Biography. Margaret Mahy was born in the 1930’s in New Zealand. Her father was a builder and her mother a teacher.

2012年7月24日 · Acclaimed and beloved New Zealand children's author Margaret Mahy passed away in Christchurch on July 23, aged 76, after a brief illness. The author of hundreds of titles, translated into 15 languages, captured the imaginations of both young and old, at home and throughout the world.

Children's author Margaret Mahy was a taonga of New Zealand storytelling, whose work inspired many future creatives, from authors to musicians to designers at Weta Digital. Known to many children for doing book readings in a brightly-coloured …