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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1231/
- Published: 2025-06-15T18:30:23.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-15T18:30:36.000Z
- Description: A much-loved, prolific and unassuming literary figure, Gee wrote more than 30 novels for both adults and children.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> New Zealand writer Maurice Gee has died in Nelson, aged 93.  
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> A much-loved, prolific and unassuming literary figure, Gee wrote more than 30 novels for both adults and children. His 1979 novel *Under the Mountain* was adapted into a TV series in 1981 and a film in 2009.  
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> His works for adults include *The Plumb Trilogy* (1978-83), which is commonly regarded as one of the most significant achievements in New Zealand literature. An earlier novel, *In My Father’s Den* (1972), was adapted as a film in 2004.  
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> In a statement, his children Nigel, Emily and Abigail Gee said, “On the afternoon of June 12, our father, Maurice Gee, died peacefully at home at the age of 93.”  
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