Maurice Gee

**Maurice Gough Gee** (22 ga watan Agustan shekara ta 1931 - 12 ga watan Yunin shekara ta 2025) marubucin litattafai ne na New Zealand. Ya kasance daya daga cikin manyan marubuta na New Zealand, bayan ya rubuta litattafai sama da talatin ga manya da yara, kuma ya lashe kyaututtuka da yawa a New Zealand da kasashen waje, gami da manyan kyaututtaka da yawa a Kyautar Littafin New Zealand, Kyautar James Tait Black Memorial a Burtaniya, Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, Robert Burns Fellowship da Kyautar Firayim Minista don Ayyukan Littattafai. A shekara ta 2003, an san shi a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan masu zane-zane na New Zealand a duk fannoni ta hanyar Gidauniyar Arts ta New Zealand, wanda ya ba shi lambar yabo ta Icon. 

Littafin Gee mai suna Plumb (1978) ya bayyana shi ne ta hanyar Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature don zama ɗaya daga cikin litattafai mafi kyau da aka taɓa rubuta a New Zealand.[1] Ya kuma kasance sananne ga fiction na yara da matasa kamar Under the Mountain (1979). Ya lashe kyaututtuka masu yawa a New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults kuma a shekara ta 2002 an gabatar da shi da babbar lambar yabo ta Margaret Mahy ta Gidauniyar Littattafan Yara don nuna godiya ga gudummawar da ya bayar ga wallafe-wallafen yara.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi Gee a Whakatāne, kuma ya girma a Henderson, wani yanki na Auckland, wurin da ke nunawa akai-akai a rubuce-rubucensa. Mahaifiyarsa, Harriet Lyndahl Gee (née Chapple), ta kasance mai gurguzu kuma marubuciya mai son rubuce-rubuce wanda aka buga wasu ayyukanta, gami da littafin hotunan yara da ake kira Mihi da Last of the Moas (1943),  kuma mahaifinsa, Leonard Gee, masassaƙi ne. Shi ne ɗan tsakiya na 'ya'yansu maza uku. Gee kuma ya kasance jikan mai rikitarwa na Presbyterian wanda ya zama ministan Unitarian James Chapple, daga baya ya zama wahayi ga halin Gee George Plumb a cikin trilogy na Plumb (1978). 

Gee ya fara rubutu a jami'a, kuma yana da gajerun labaru da aka buga a cikin mujallu na New Zealand Landfall da Mate .  Bayan kammala karatunsa na MA ya koyar a sashen sakandare na makarantar sakandare ta Paeroa na kimanin watanni 18, tun daga watan Fabrairun 1955, amma ya yi murabus a watan Yulin 1956 don mayar da hankali kan rubuce-rubucensa. A watan Janairun 1960 da Disamba 1961, Asusun Littattafan New Zealand ya ba shi tallafin wallafe-wallafen .  

### Ayyuka da gado na baya: 1992 zuwa 2025

Buga littafin Gee na goma, Going West (1992),  ya tabbatar da sunansa a matsayin daya daga cikin marubuta mafi kyau a New Zealand.  Ita ce mafi yawan tarihin rayuwar litattafan Gee, kuma garin Loomis, wanda aka kafa littafin, yana da kamanceceniya da yawa da Henderson, Auckland, inda Gee ya girma. Littafin ya zama wahayi ga bikin Going West Books & Writers, bikin wallafe-wallafen farko na Auckland, wanda aka gudanar tun daga shekara ta 1996. Ya lashe lambar yabo ta farko don fiction a 1993 Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards .  A cikin 1993, Andro Linklater, yana rubutu a cikin jaridar Burtaniya The Sunday Times, ya ce "Gee ya cancanci a ɗauke shi a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin marubuta mafi kyau a aiki, ba kawai a New Zealand ba ... amma a cikin duniyar da ke magana da Turanci".

## Rayuwa ta mutum
Gee yana da dangantaka ta shekaru bakwai da Hera Smith, tare da wanda ya haifi ɗa, Nigel, a watan Satumbar 1959. Sun rabu a cikin shekarun 1960.

Gee ya auri matarsa Margareta a shekarar 1970, bayan ya hadu a 1966 a ɗakin karatu na Alexander Turnbull inda ta yi aiki. Suna da 'ya'ya mata biyu tare, Abigail da Emily. Abigail tana aiki a matsayin mai ba da labari,  kuma Emily marubuciya ce wacce ta wallafa litattafan fantasy da tarihi.  Gee ya ce a cikin 2018 cewa saduwa da Margareta ya canza rayuwarsa: "Ina da shekaru 38 lokacin da muka taru kuma ina yawo da ɓata lokacina kuma kawai ina nuna cewa marubuciya ce. Ta kawo kwanciyar hankali ta kowane irin rayuwa a rayuwata - kuma kamar yadda na nuna a Running on the Stairs, litattafai biyu da wasu labaru kafin saduwa da ita, fiye da litattafi 30 tun lokacin. "

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