Author
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gee is a distinguished fiction writer. He has received numerous awards, nominations and grants for his adult fiction and also for his young adult and children's books. Maurice Gee was among ten of New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists in 2003. His short stories and novels are well-known for their real or imaginatively reworked local settings, dysfunctional families and sketches of violence. Gee's numerous publications, and his wide readership, have contributed to his status as one of New Zealand's most significant writers.