Mandy hager biography
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Mandy hager biography
Mandy Hager
New Zealand writer
Amanda Hager (born 26 July 1960) is a writer of fiction and non-fiction for children, young adults and adults. Many of her books have been shortlisted for or won awards, including Singing Home the Whale which won both the Young Adult fiction category and the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in 2015.
She has been the recipient of several fellowships, residencies and prizes, including the Beatson Fellowship in 2012, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in 2014, the Waikato University Writer in Residence in 2015 and the Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award in 2019.
Biography
Hager was born in Levin on 26 July 1960.[1][2][3] Her father, Kurt, was born in Vienna[4] and her mother, Barbara, in Zanzibar.[5] She is the third of four children who grew up in a household where books, reading and writing were encouraged and valued.[3