Maurice Shadbolt
Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt CBE (4 June 1932 – 10 October 2004) was a New Zealand writer[1][2] and occasional playwright.[1][3]
Biography
Shadbolt was born in Auckland, and was the eldest of three children. He had a younger brother and sister, Peter and Julia. Shadbolt was educated at Te Kuiti High School, Avondale College and Auckland University College. Shadbolt began writing for local West Auckland community newspapers.[4] In the 1960s, he moved to Titirangi with his family, buying a house that overlooked Little Muddy Creek, where he spent the next 42 years writing.[4]
In total, Shadbolt wrote 11 novels, four collections of short stories, two autobiographies, a war history, and a volume of journalism, as well as plays.[2] He won the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award for a short story three times: in 1963, 1967 and 1995.[5] His first collection of short stories, The New Zealanders, was published in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. His most famous book is probably Season of the Jew (1987), which recounts the story of Te Kooti.
In the 1989 New Year Honours, Shadbolt was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire,for services to literature.[6]
Shadbolt suffered from what was thought to be Alzheimer's disease, which during his autopsy was found to be Lewy body dementia.[citation needed] He died on 10 October 2004 in a Taumarunui rest home, surrounded by his children.[2] Shadbolt had five children: Sean, Brendan and twins Tui and Daniel from his first marriage, to journalist and author Gillian Heming, and Brigid from his second marriage, to television presenter Barbara Magner. Shadbolt was also married to actress Bridget Armstrong. His cousin Tim Shadbolt was Mayor of Invercargill for nearly 20 years until 2022.
Bibliography
His works were often published in the UK and United States as well as in New Zealand, sometimes in different years. Dates are for the first appearance.
- New Zealanders: a Sequence of Stories (1959).
- Western Samoa: The Pacific's Newest Nation (1962).
- Summer Fires and Winter Country (short stories, 1963).
- New Zealand: Gift of the Sea (1963, revised 1973).
- Among the Cinders (1965, revised 1984). A film version was released in 1983.
- The Presence of Music: Three Novellas (1967).
- New Zealand's Cook Islands: Paradise in Search of a Future (1967).
- The Shell Guide to New Zealand (1968, revised 1973).
- Isles of the South Pacific (1968).
- This Summer's Dolphin (1969). Short novel inspired by the story of Opo the dolphin.
- An Ear of the Dragon (1971). Fictional novel based on the life of Renato Amato.
- Strangers and Journeys (1972).
- A Touch of Clay (1974). Part one of a projected trilogy.
- Danger Zone (1975). Part two of the unfinished trilogy.
- Love and legend: Some 20th century New Zealanders (1976).
- Figures in Light: Selected Stories (1979).
- The Lovelock Version (1980).
- Season of the Jew (1986). Part one of the New Zealand Wars trilogy.
- Guide to New Zealand (1988).
- Voices of Galipoli (television documentary, 1988).
- Monday's Warriors (1990). Part two of the New Zealand Wars trilogy.
- Once on Chunuk Bair (1982), a play. A film version Chunuk Bair was released in 1991.
- The House of Strife (1993). Part three of the New Zealand Wars trilogy.
- One of Ben's: A New Zealand Medley (autobiography, 1993).
- Ending the Silences: Critical Essays (1994)
- Dove on the Waters (novellas, 1996).
- Selected Stories of Maurice Shadbolt, edited by Ralph Crane (1998).
- From the Edge of the Sky: A Memoir (1999).
See also
References
- ^ a b Robinson and Wattie 1998
- ^ a b c "Obituary: Maurice Shadbolt". The New Zealand Herald. 11 October 2004. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
- ^ "Shadbolt, Maurice". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
- ^ a b Jahn-Werner, Tara (2009). "The Children of Hauauru". In Macdonald, Finlay; Kerr, Ruth (eds.). West: The History of Waitakere. Random House. pp. 347–348. ISBN 9781869790080.
- ^ Wells, Amanda (2 April 2001). "Short stories go online". Dominion. p. IT1.
- ^ "No. 51580". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 31 December 1988. p. 34.
- Robinson, Roger and Nelson Wattie (eds.). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-558348-5.
External links
- Maurice Shadbolt at the New Zealand Book Council
- Shadbolts bibliography in the Auckland University Library
- Maurice Shadbolt at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- 1959 Ian Cross
- 1960 Maurice Duggan
- 1961 John Caselberg
- 1962 R.A.K. Mason
- 1963 Maurice Shadbolt
- 1964 Maurice Gee
- 1965 Janet Frame
- 1966–67 James K. Baxter
- 1968 Ruth Dallas
- 1969 Warren Dibble
- 1970 O. E. Middleton
- 1971 Noel Hilliard
- 1972 Ian Wedde
- 1973 Graham Billing
- 1974 Hone Tuwhare
- 1975 Witi Ihimaera
- 1976 Sam Hunt
- 1977 Keri Hulme
- 1977–78 Roger Hall
- 1978 Peter Olds
- 1979 Michael A. Noonan
- 1980 Philip Temple
- 1981–82 William Sewell
- 1983 Rawiri Paratene
- 1984 Brian Turner
- 1985–86 Cilla McQueen
- 1987 Robert Lord
- 1988 John Dickson
- 1989 Renée
- 1990 David Eggleton
- 1991 Lynley Hood
- 1992 Owen Marshall
- 1993 Stuart Hoar
- 1994 Christine Johnston
- 1995 Elspeth Sandys
- 1996 Bernadette Hall
- 1997 Paddy Richardson
- 1998–99 Michael King
- 1999 Paula Boock
- 2000 James Norcliffe
- 2001 Jo Randerson
- 2002 Alison Wong
- 2003 Nick Ascroft
- 2003 Sarah Quigley
- 2004 Kate Duignan
- 2005–06 Catherine Chidgey
- 2006 Dianne Ruth Pettis
- 2007 Laurence Fearnley
- 2008 Sue Wootton
- 2009 Michael Harlow
- 2010 Michele Powles
- 2011 Fiona Farrell
- 2012 Emma Neale
- 2013 David Howard
- 2014 Majella Cullinane
- 2015 Louise Wallace
- 2016 Victor Rodger
- 2017 Craig Cliff
- 2018 Rhian Gallagher
- 2019 Emily Duncan
- 2020 John Newton
- 2021 Becky Manawatu
- 2022 Albert Belz
- 2023 Kathryn van Beek
- 2024 Mikaela Nyman