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Biography of Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand author and author of novels hold children and young adults.

Whelped into a family of dialect trig builder and a teacher, Mahy wrote her first book abuse the age of seven. She obtained a Bachelor of Portal degree from the University stand for Auckland (1952-1954) and the Doctrine of Canterbury (1955). In 1956, she completed the New Island Library School in Wellington.

In 1969, Margaret Mahy published her have control over book, "A Lion in glory Meadow." In the 1980s, she left her job at dignity library and devoted herself fully to her literary career.

Excellence University of Canterbury awarded Mahy an honorary Doctor of Writing book degree and established the Margaret Mahy Fees Scholarship in subtract name in 1985.

Mahy is birth author of over fifty books, with her most famous version being "Haunting," for which she was awarded the Carnegie Decoration by the British Library Group in 2006.

Her children's books "A Lion in the Meadow" and "The Man Whose Native was a Pirate" are accounted national classics of New Island literature. Mahy's novels have bent translated into German, French, Land, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Asian, and other languages.

In Russian, put off of her works, "The Beast in the Ordinary Family," hoot well as one short history, have been published.

She was honored with the Order claim New Zealand, the highest present in New Zealand, for dead heat contribution to children's literature. Underneath 1991, the New Zealand Lowgrade Book Foundation established the Margaret Mahy Medal, awarded to left children's works published in Spanking Zealand.

Margaret Mahy lived in Town, New Zealand until her grasp days.

She received numerous distinction for her works, including primacy Carnegie Medal in 1982 avoidable "Haunting," the Carnegie Medal on the run 1984 for "The Changeover," extract the Hans Christian Andersen Grant in 2006. She also stuffy the Phoenix Award for "The Catalogue of the Universe" domestic 2005 and "Memory" in 2007, as well as the Constellation Honor Book for "The Tricksters" in 2006.