Maurice Shadbolt

Maurice Shadbolt is the author of four volumes of short stories, several works on non-fiction, and eleven novels, including three now seen as New Zealand classics: Strangers and Journeys (1973 Wattie Book of the Year), The Lovelock Version (1981 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, third place 1981 Wattie Book of the Year) and Season of the Jew (1987 Wattie Book of the Year). This last book is the first of an epic trilogy that includes Monday’s Warriors and The House of Strife. His recent publications include the highly praised autobiography One of Ben’s and the novel Dove on the Waters. The Chicago Sun-Times pronounced him ‘one of the most inventive and lively novelists working in the world today’. In 1989 Maurice Shadbolt was awarded the C.B.E. for services to literature.

Maurice Shadbolt died in 2004.