![]() Mahy worked as a nurse’s aide for six months before going to Auckland University College 1952–54 and Canterbury University College 1955, graduating BA. Though regarded at primary school as academically ‘slow’, her first publications were at the age of 7, in the children’s page of the Bay of Plenty Beacon she also entered Junior Digest competitions. With many relatives living in the same town, Mahy had a largely happy childhood, excelling at high school as a swimmer. Her father, a bridge builder, told stories and read to his children his taste for adventure was to influence Mahy’s writing. ![]() MAHY, Margaret (1936–2012), the most acclaimed of New Zealand’s children’s writers, was born and raised in Whakatane, eldest of five children. ![]() FROM THE OXFORD COMPANION TO NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE ![]()
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