Celebrating the champion — Maurice Gee’s contribution to children’s literature

Join us for a panel presentation focusing on the children’s writing of Maurice Gee, the celebrated New Zealand writer who died in June of this year, aged 93.

Speakers: NZ’s Reading Ambassador Kate de Goldi, commentator and award-winning writer for children Claire Mabey, poet Anna Jackson, memoirist and poet Harry Ricketts, and scholars Dr Tatjana Schaefer and Dr Vivien van Rij. The discussion will be introduced by Emeritus Professor Kathryn Walls.

This free event is hosted jointly by the Friends of the Dorothy Neal White Collection and Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters.

All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

Date: Tuesday 23 September 2025
Time: 5.30 – 7:00pm (approx.) We shall begin with tea and coffee; the presentation will begin at 6.00 pm.
Place: Floor 12, Rutherford House, Bunny Street, Wellington

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