WRITER

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 185,252 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Mahy is the 5,748th most popular writer (down from 5,106th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from New Zealand (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular New Zealander Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Catalogue of the Universe
Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Love
1986
The Haunting
Fiction, Supernatural, Extrasensory perception
1982
The tricksters
Interpersonal relations, Supernatural, Family problems
1986
The Great White Man-Eating Shark
Fiction, Sharks, Juvenile fiction
Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark.
1990
The Changeover
Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
1984
1986

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Margaret Mahy ranks 5,748 out of 7,302. Before her are Ivan Tavčar, Mateja Matevski, Miguel Mihura, Gerrit Achterberg, Dina Rubina, and Mulk Raj Anand. After her are Thomas Brezina, Gianni Celati, Gardner Dozois, Memnon of Heraclea, C. L. R. James, and Julia Hartwig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Margaret Mahy ranks 467. Before her are Owen Roizman, Dmitri Anosov, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, German Apukhtin, Ignacio Achúcarro, and Roger Mahony. After her are Janusz Zakrzeński, Robert A. Parker, László Fábián, Harold Budd, Gerry Ashmore, and Aleksei Mamykin. Among people deceased in 2012, Margaret Mahy ranks 372. Before her are Anna-Lisa Eriksson, Jacques Barzun, Klaus Schütz, Sherman Hemsley, Pierre Adam, and Alan Cottrell. After her are Bernard Lovell, Susan Tyrrell, Vincenzo Consolo, Ivan Calin, Dick Clark, and Robert Sabatier.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Margaret Mahy ranks 71 out of 303. Before her are Jed Brophy (1963), John Key (1961), Andrew Adamson (1966), Hugh Walpole (1884), John Gorton (1911), and Silvia Cartwright (1943). After her are Neil Finn (1958), John Nicholson (1941), Lawrence Makoare (1968), Te Atairangikaahu (1931), Peter Hambleton (1960), and David Lange (1942).

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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), Richard Curtis (1956), Janet Frame (1924), Ngaio Marsh (1895), and Hugh Walpole (1884). After her are Keri Hulme (1947), Anthony McCarten (1961), Ruth Park (1917), and Philippa Boyens (2000).

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