Maurice Gee

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Maurice Gee, born 1931 in Whakatane, New Zealand^[1], is one of New Zealand's most distinguished novelists.^[2]

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Novels[citation needed] 3.2 Short Stories: First Publication[citation needed] 4 Further reading 5 Adaptations[citation needed] 6 See also 7 References 8 External link

[edit] Life

He was brought up in Henderson, a suburb of Auckland, a place which is reflected in some of his writing.^[1][2]

Maurice Gee is an Honorary Associate of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists.^[3]

[edit] Awards

His fiction has won him several awards including the New Zealand Fiction Award, the Wattie Book of the Year Award and the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award. His latest, Blindsight (2005), won the Readers Choice and Deutz Medal awards at the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.^[2]

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels^{[citation needed]}

• The Big Season. London: Hutchinson, 1962. London: Arrow, 1964. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1985.
• A Special Flower. London: Hutchinson, 1965.
• In My Father's Den. London: Faber, 1972. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1978.
• A Glorious Morning, Comrade. Auckland: Auckland UP and Oxford UP, 1975.
• Games of Choice. London: Faber, 1976. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1978.
• Under the Mountain. Wellington: Oxford UP, 1979.
• The World Around the Corner. Wellington: Oxford UP, 1980.
• Plumb. London: Faber, 1978.
• Meg. London: Faber, 1981. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Auckland: Penguin
• The Halfmen of O. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1982. Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1986.
• Sole Survivor. London: Faber, 1983. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. Auckland: Penguin, 1983.
• The Priests of Ferris. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1984.
• Motherstone. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1985.
• The Fire-Raiser. Auckland: Puffin, 1986.
• Collected Stories. Auckland: Penguin, 1986. New York: Penguin, 1987.
• Prowlers. London and Boston: Faber, 1987.
• The Champion. Auckland : Puffin, 1989; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
• The Burning Boy. London : Faber, 1990, 1992; Auckland : Viking, 1990.
• Going West. Auckland : Viking, 1992; London: Faber, 1992; Auckland: Penguin, 2000.
• Crime Story.Auckland : Penguin Books, 1994; Auckland: Viking, 1994; London: Faber, 1995.
• The Fat Man. Auckland : Viking, 1994; Auckland: Puffin, 2000.
• Plumb Trilogy. Auckland: Penguin, 1995.
• Loving Ways. Auckland : Penguin, 1996.
• Live Bodies. Auckland : Penguin, 1998; London: Faber, 1998; Scheuring: Black Ink, 2002 (German edition).
• Orchard Street. Auckland : Viking, 1998.
• Hostel Girl. Auckland : Puffin, 1999.
• Ellie and the Shadow Man. Auckland: Penguin, 2001.
• The Scournful Moon. Auckland: Penguin, 2003.
• Blindsight, Auckland: Penguin, 2005

[edit] Short Stories: First Publication^{[citation needed]}

• In at the Death. Kiwi (1955): 21-26.
• The Widow. Landfall 9 (1955): 196-213. In GMC, CS.
• Evening at Home. Arena 45 (1956): 23-24.
• The Quarry. Arena 46 (1957): 6-10, 13.
• A Sleeping Face. Landfall 11 (1957): 194-221. In GMC, CS.
• A Girl in Blue. Mate 2 (1958): 10-19.
• While the Flag was Up. Arena 50 (1958-59): 13-17, 28.
• The Losers. Landfall 13 (1959): 120-47. In Landfall Country: Work from Landfall, 1947-1961. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1962, 24-56. In New Zealand Short Stories, Second Series. Ed. C.K. Stead. London: Oxford UP, 1966, 255-95. In GMC, CS.
• Facade. Mate. 4 (1960): 26-33.
• Schooldays. Mate. December 1960: 2-11. In GMC, CS.
• The Champion. Landfall 20 (1966): 113-25. In GMC, CS.
• Down in the World. Landfall 21 (1967): 296-302. In GMC, CS.
• A Retired Life. Landfall 23 (1969): 101-16. In GMC, CS.

[edit] Further reading

• The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie (1998).

[edit] Adaptations^{[citation needed]}

• 1982 New Zealand TV series titled Under the Mountain

[edit] See also

• New Zealand literature

[edit] References

[edit] External link

• More information about Maurice Gee's life and works is available at New Zealand Book Council
• Academic essay with citations: Dickensian grotesque in Maurice Gee's "The Fat Man"