by Tessa Duder
Belgium
de Vries-Brouwers
Denmark
Gyldendal; Forum
Norway
Stabenfeldt; Bogklubben Rasmus
Sweden
Norsdedts; AWE/Gebers; Alfabeta; Sjostrands; Eriksson & Lindgren
Finland
Tammi; Kustannus-Makela
Estonia
Eesti Raamat
South Africa (Afrikaans)
Human & Rousseau
Mexico
Fondo de Cultura Economica
Japan
Iwinami Shoten; Sailor Shuppan
Thailand
Butterfly Book House
China
Eastern Publishing Co Ltd
Principal publishers in English are:
UK
Dent; Penguin; Hamish Hamilton; HarperCollins; Transworld; Frances Lincoln; Heinemann, Reed International; Jonathon Cape/Puffin; Faber & Faber
USA
Franklin Watts; Margaret McElderry (Simon & Schuster); Dell; Atheneum; Delacorte Press; Viking Penguin; Viking Kestrel; Greenwillow (HarperColllins); Orchard Books; Godine; Dial Books
Australia and New Zealand
Penguin Australia; HarperCollins; Allen & Unwin; Scholastic; School Publications, Department of Education; Shortland Publications; Wendy Pye Publishing Ltd; Random House; Gecko Press
Awards and honours
Esther Glen Medal (NZ Library Association) for A Lion in the Meadow, 1969
Esther Glen Medal (NZLA) for The First Margaret Mahy Story Book, 1973
Een Zilveren Griffell, 1978
Best Children’s Books citation for The Haunting, 1982
School Library Journal Best Book citation for The Haunting, 1982
Carnegie Medal (British Library Association) for The Haunting, 1982
Esther Glen Medal (NZLA) for The Haunting, 1983
Writer’s Fellowship, University of Canterbury, 1984
Carnegie Medal (BLA) for The Changeover: a supernatural romance, 1984
Notable Book citation by Association for Library Service to Children for The Changeover: a supernatural romance, 1984
Horn Book Honor List for The Changeover: a supernatural romance, 1985
Children’s Book of the Year citation by American Library Association, for The Changeover: a supernatural romance, 1986
Best Book for Young Adults citation (ALA) for The Changeover: a supernatural romance, 1986
Esther Glen Medal (NZLIA) for The Changeover: a supernatural romance, 1985
New Zealand Literary Fund Lifetime Achievement Award, 1985
Best Books citation, Young Adult Services of American Library Service, for The Tricksters, 1987
Horn Book Honor List for The Catalogue of the Universe, 1987
Ten Best Illustrated Books list, New York Times Book Review, for Seventeen Kings and 42 Elephants, 1987
Carnegie Medal (BLA) runner-up for Memory, 1987
Observer Teenage Fiction Award (UK) for Memory, 1987
Society of School Librarians International Book Award for Memory, 1988
Boston Globe/Horn Book award for Memory, 1988
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture (Association for Library Service to Children), Pittsburg, USA, 1989
International New York Film Festival, Gold medal for TV drama Strangers, 1989
Inaugural recipient, Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture, Children’s Book Foundation of New Zealand, 1991
Order of New Zealand, 1993
Children’s Book of the Year, Junior Fiction, AIM Children’s Book Awards (NZ), for Underrunners, 1993
Esther Glen Medal (NZLIA) for Underrunners, 1993
Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Canterbury, 1993
A.W. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award (NZ), first recipient, 1999
Supreme Book of the Year and Picture Book of the Year, New Zealand Post Book Awards, for A Summery Saturday Morning, 2000
Honour Book, Junior Fiction, New Zealand Post Book Awards, for A Villain’s Night Out, 2000
Esther Glen Medal (NZLIA) for 24 Hours, 2001
Honour Book, Senior Fiction,
New Zealand Post Book Awards, for 24 Hours, 2001
Guardian Fiction Award shortlist,
for 24 Hours, 2001
Book of the Year, Senior Fiction,
New Zealand Post Book Awards, for Alchemy, 2003
Phoenix Award, Children’s Literature Association (presented in Winnipeg, Canada),
for ‘the most outstanding book for children published twenty years earlier which did not receive a major award at the time’,
for The Catalogue of the Universe, 2005.
Literary Achievement in Fiction,
Prime Minister’s Awards instituted by Helen Clark, 2005
Icon Artist,
The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Awards — Honouring Preeminence — Whakamana Hiranga, 2005
Honorary Doctorate,
University of Waikato, 2005
Storylines Notable Books,
Junior Fiction, for Maddigan’s Fantasia, 2006
Storylines Notable Books,
Senior Fiction, for Kaitangata Twitch, 2006
Phoenix Award (Canada),
Honor Book, for The Tricksters, 2006
Sir Julius Vogel Award,
for services to New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2006
Hans Christian Andersen Medal,
to an author ‘whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children’s literature’, IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People), 2006
Phoenix Award (Canada),
for Memory, 2007
Picture Book Winner,
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, for Bubble Trouble, illustrated by Polly Dunbar, 2009
Honour Award,
New Zealand Post Book Awards, for The Word Witch: The Magical Verse of Margaret Mahy, edited by Tessa Duder, illustrated by David Elliot, 2010
Book of the Year and Picture Book of the Year,
New Zealand Post Book Awards, for The Moon and Farmer McPhee, illustrated by David Elliot, 2011
Storylines
Picture Books,
for The Moon and Farmer McPhee, 2011
Storylines
Young Adult Fiction,
for Organ Music, 2011
In addition, most Margaret Mahy novels such as The Catalogue of the Universe, Memory, The Tricksters, Dangerous Spaces and Underrunners have appeared on various American ‘best book’ lists such as the Parenting’s Reading Magic List, Editor’s Choice (Booklist), etc.
Acknowledgements
With Margaret Mahy’s death on 23 July 2012, I remain indebted to her long-time friend and agent, the late Vanessa Hamilton, and her current London agent, Mandy Little, for their help with publishing and bibliographic information for this book.
My sincere thanks go to: Bill Nagelkerke for access to the Christchurch City Libraries’ Margaret Mahy Archives and his personal files; Dr Diane Hebley for access to her research material; librarians Margaret Lindsay and Anne Coppell for their assistance in compiling a complete-as-possible bibliography; Julia Wells, commissioning editor of Faber & Faber, London; Fergus Barrowman of Victoria University Press, and editors Drs Sarah Winters and Elizabeth Hale for permission to quote from their 2005 collection of essays, Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy; Frances Plumpton for research into Mahy’s fictional names; and for their unfailing support, Dr Libby Limbrick and other colleagues and friends associated with the Storylines Children’s Literature Trust, of which Margaret was Patron.
Others who provided invaluable information and assistance include Jack Lasenby, Brian Cutting, Gavin Bishop, William Taylor, Yvonne Mackay, Sonja de Friez, Veronica McCarthy, John Barr, Joan Gibbons, David Hill, Witi Ihimaera, Anna Jackson, Rose Lovell-Smith, Kathryn Walls, Claudia Marquis, Janice Marriott, Joanna Orwin, Nan Pemberth.
For their editorial encouragement and patience, I wish to thank Lorain Day and the editorial staff of HarperCollins New Zea
land, along with editor Anna Rogers; also Ian Watt, commissioning editor at HarperCollins when the book was first suggested.
For the pictures, I am especially grateful to Alan Knowles, Frances Plumpton, Antonia Matthews, The Press (Christchurch), North & South magazine and Margaret herself.
Thanks must also go to Bill Nagelkerke and Wayne Mills for their comments on early drafts of the manuscript. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy of sources in the text and of the bibliography, although for an author so prolific, so widely published in many countries and so generous as a speech-maker and interview subject over 40 years this has been challenging. In a few cases, efforts made to track down the primary source of clippings or photographs have proved fruitless. Any errors that remain are, of course, mine.
Finally, sincere thanks are due to Margaret, for her unfailing grace and helpfulness in gathering the material for this book, her acceptance of the manuscript, and her hospitality at Governors Bay on two occasions during 2004 and others over the years.
For her unstinting friendship and support over several decades, I and the growing fellowship of children’s writers and illustrators in New Zealand will always remain profoundly grateful.
Tessa Duder
August 2012
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First published in 2012
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National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Duder, Tessa.
Margaret Mahy: a writer’s life / Tessa Duder.
Previous ed.: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-1-77554-017-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-77549-035-7 (epub)
1. Mahy, Margaret. 2. Women authors, New Zealand — 20th century — Biography. 3. Authors, New Zealand — 20th century — Biography. 4. Children’s literature — Authorship. 5. Children’s literature, New Zealand.
I. Title.
NZ823.2 — dc 23 [B]
Cover design by Cheryl Rowe
