Author · New Zealand
Maurice Shadbolt
Died in 2004
Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt was born in Mount Albert, a suburb of Auckland, on 4 June 1932. Raised in Te Kūiti, he became a journalist, then from 1954 a documentary maker at the National Film Unit in Wellington. He went abroad in 1957 and from then on lived by his pen. Three times winner of the Katherine Mansfield short story prize, made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the late eighties, he developed dementia and died in Taumarunui on 10 October 2004.
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- NovelThe Lovelock VersionMaurice Shadbolt · 1980Literature