Tessa duder biography
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Tessa Duder
New Zealand author and former swimmer
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| Birth name | Tessa Staveley |
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| Born | (1940-11-13) 13 November 1940 (age 84) Auckland, New Zealand |
| Education | Diocesan School for Girls |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Spouses | John Nelson Duder (m. 1964–1994)Barry Thompson (m. 2001–2012) |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Sport | Swimming |
| National finals | 110 yd butterfly champion (1958, 1959) Individual medley champion (1957, 1958, 1959) |
Tessa DuderCNZM OBE (née Staveley, born 13 November 1940) is a New Zealand author of novels for young people, short stories, plays and non-fiction, and a former swimmer who won a silver medal for her country at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. As a writer, she is primarily known for her Alex quartet and long-term advocacy for New Ze
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Tess Duder CNZM OBE
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Tessa Duder trained as a journalist and has published more than forty works of fiction and non-fiction for both children and adults, plays and anthologies.
Her best-known work Alex (1987) was adapted for a 1993 movie, and recent work features biographies of Margaret Mahy, Sir Peter Blake, Auckland’s ‘First Lady’ Sarah Mathew and James Cook.
Her latest, an historical novel The Sparrow, is set in early Auckland.
Her numerous awards include the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship to Menton, an Artists to Antarctica award, the OBE, an honorary doctorate from the University of Waikato, the Prime Minister’s Award (Fiction) and in 2020 the CNZM.
She serves on the boards of the Storylines Children’s Literature Trust and is Vice-patron of the Spirit of Adventure Trust.
About Cre • Duder, Tessa (1940 -), writer for children and young adults, was educated at Diocesan GHS and Auckland University. As Tessa Staveley, she was a silver medallist in swimming at the 1958 Cardiff Empire Games (later the Commonwealth Games), national butterfly and medley record holder (1958-59) and the first New Zealand Swimmer of the Year (1959). In 1959 she was appointed a general reporter at the Auckland Star, rising to general reporter, swimming reporter and later deputy editor of the Women's Page. Tessa Duder
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In 1964 she married and moved to London, working for two years as a feature writer for the Daily Express; she moved to Pakistan 1966-70, and returned to New Zealand in 1971, apart from spending 1981 in Malaysia. She lives in Auckland. Her first novel for children, Night Race to Kawau (1982), depicts a family's triumph over adversity when the father, an experienced sailor, is knocked unconscious at the beginning of th