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Margaret Mahy

1936 - 2012

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Margaret Mahy (21 March 1936 – 23 July 2012) was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Mahy has received more than 177,165 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Margaret Mahy is the 5,123rd most popular writer (down from 4,611th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 55th in 2019) and the 6th most popular New Zealander Writer.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margaret Mahy ranks 5,123 out of 5,755. Before her are Antoni Lange, Arnulf Øverland, Memnon of Heraclea, Frank O'Hara, Mirdza Ķempe, and Georgy Ivanov. After her are Michael Frayn, Þórbergur Þórðarson, John Esposito, Evgeny Vladimirovich Chetvergov, Nathan Zach, and F. Sionil José.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Margaret Mahy ranks 406. Before her are Viktor Kanevskyi, Paolo Barison, Manfred Stolpe, Lyudmila Pinayeva, Norberto Menéndez, and Sergo Kotrikadze. After her are Nils Nilsson, Roger Mahony, Harry Bild, Robert A. Parker, Elizabeth Dole, and Sergio Navarro. Among people deceased in 2012, Margaret Mahy ranks 323. Before her are Richard Rodney Bennett, Sergey Nikolsky, Sherman Hemsley, Gustaf Jansson, Pierre Adam, and István Rózsavölgyi. After her are Doc Watson, Ladislav Kuna, Bernard Lovell, Roald Aas, Jerzy Kulej, and Anna-Lisa Eriksson.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Margaret Mahy ranks 62 out of 248. Before her are John Nicholson (1941), Melanie Lynskey (1977), Vaughan Jones (1952), Yvette Williams (1929), Anthony Wilding (1883), and Rupert Julian (1879). After her are John Key (1961), Terence Bayler (1930), Bill English (1961), Lawrence Makoare (1968), David Lange (1942), and Te Atairangikaahu (1931).

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Among WRITERS In New Zealand

Among writers born in New Zealand, Margaret Mahy ranks 6. Before her are Katherine Mansfield (1888), Ngaio Marsh (1895), Richard Curtis (1956), Janet Frame (1924), and Keri Hulme (1947). After her are Hugh Walpole (1884), Ruth Park (1917), and Philippa Boyens (2000).

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