Maurice Gee is acknowledged as one of New Zealand’s finest fiction writers and has won more book awards than any other New Zealand writer, in both adult and children’s fiction. His awards include the Wattie Award (twice), the Montana Award, and the New Zealand Fiction Award (four times). He has also won the New Zealand Children's Book of the Year Award.
Maurice Gee's novels include the three books in the Plumb trilogy, Going West (winner of the Wattie award), Prowlers, Live Bodies (winner of the Montana Award) and Ellie and the Shadow Man. His most recent novel The Scornful Moon was joint runner-up for the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2004 Montana Book Awards. He has also written a number of children's novels, the most recent being The Fat Man, Orchard Street and Hostel Girl. Maurice lives in Wellington with his wife Margareta and they have two daughters and a son.
'He deserves to be regarded as one of the finest writers at work in the English-speaking world. Those who seek him out will find an intelligence and humanity to restore their faith in the power of the novel.' Sunday Times
'A formidable writer: graceful, intelligent and kind.' Mail on Sunday
