Talk:Margaret Mahy

message: Something a bit odd in the dates on this page. The Bibliography section says "The Haunting (1992)", but the Awards section says it won the Carnegie Medal in 1982. I know it's a supernatural novel, but that's going a bit far :-) I think the Bibliography section has to be the wrong one, because my copy of The Haunting says it was first published in the UK in 1982. Not sure what that makes the real original publication date, though.
: Carnegie Medals were dated by the year of first U.K. publication.
: National Library of Australia is associated with VIAF, a link provided in the footer of many writer biographies here. (But I don't know how to use the NLA link provided there[ whereas the German (GND) today goes directly to the human readable catalog.) NLA may be useful, I suppose from a distance, knowing that even UK and US share some catalog resources and generate much co-publication. --P64 (talk) 16:05, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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message: The bibliography is very incomplete and probably misleading regarding her career as well. The US Library of Congress (which may not have all her books) lists five picture book titles for 1969, two 1970, two 1971. (about fifteen records pre-1972. having checked one i guess that most doubles represent UK and US editions)
One of the 1969 illustrators, Helen Oxenbury for Dragon of an Ordinary Family (London: Heinemann), won the British Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration that year, citing this book and one other.
• LCC entry for that book; select "More like this" for return to Mahy. --P64 (talk) 18:19, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: See also WP:BIB. --P64 (talk) 16:05, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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message: Is it like "ma-HIGH"? 86.182.10.94 (talk) 16:37, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Its pronounced "Ma-he", see the opening part of this documentary: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/made-in-new-zealand---margaret-mahy-2004. Rudolph89 (talk) 21:18, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  So in IPA notation that's /ˈmɑː.hi/ (in a British RP accent anyhow). 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:8C75:7F2B:41E7:8708 (talk) 18:34, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
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message: After a few emails, we have been kindly granted permission for three photos of Mahy, one of which I have put into the infobox (after some cropping, colour adjustments, and background blurring). The images are in :commons:Category:Margaret Mahy, which is linked to in the external links section now too. TimofKingsland (talk) 05:36, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
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message: Mahy won the so-called-but-not-by-us Little Nobel Prize or Nobel Prize of Children's Literature in 2006, the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award. I added, as [ref name=ibby2006] currently #2, the entire archive of year 2006 materials at IBBY. See my green remarks above.
Mahy was the New Zealand 2004 nominee and 2002 nominee. To me that doesn't seem worth stating in the article, or not worth documenting. Perhaps there is a New Zealand Board of Books for Young People, responsible for nominations, with online coverage of biennial nominations that may be useful as a source here or elsewhere.
FWIW, if i skim correctly, NZ did not participate prior to 2002 ("Candidates for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards 1956–2002"). That may be useful in coverage of NZ writers or NZ children's lit, not here but elsewhere, especially if one of you spots a 1956 to 2000 nomination that i missed. (I skimmed the whole list for English-language writers but the nature of the source makes that error-prone.) The linked book does somewhere say nomination is a significant expense that many smaller countries undertake only if they have a candidate likely to be strong internationally. 
--P64 (talk) 23:19, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
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