The Margaret Mahy Award, officially the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award, is a New Zealand literary prize presented to a person who has made a significant contribution to children's literature, publishing or literacy. Presented annually since 1991 by the Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand, the award is named in honour of its first recipient, Margaret Mahy.
The Saturday closest to International Children's Book Day (unless this is during Easter) is called "Margaret Mahy Day" by the trust, during which they present the Margaret Mahy Award, as well as other awards. The recipient delivers a lecture during the ceremony, known as the "Margaret Mahy Lecture", which is subsequently published in the trust's yearbook, The Inside Story.
Recipients Year Name Lecture publication title 1991 Margaret Mahy Surprising Moments 1992 Dorothy Butler Telling Tales 1993 Joy Cowley Influences 1994 Betty Gilderdale Some Cautionary Tales 1995 Elsie Locke For Children You Must Do it Better 1996 Tessa Duder Learning to Swim in the Deep 1997 Ann Mallinson From a Trickle to a River 1998 William Taylor A Strange Way for an Adult Male to be Making a Living! 1999 Lynley Dodd Writing the Pictures and Painting the Words 2000 Gavin Bishop Kia Ora Professor Cole 2001 Sherryl Jordan Journeys of the Heart 2002 Maurice Gee Creeks and Kitchens 2003 Jack Lasenby Changes and Origins 2004 Pamela Allen My Picture Books 2005 David Hill By the Book 2006 Robyn Belton Gathering Images: The Stories Behind the Pictures 2007 Ken Catran Teen Literature: Demons Old and New 2008 Wayne Mills Reading Aloud is Allowed 2009 Andrew Crowe Creative Non-Fiction 2010 Barbara Larson Grazing the Longacre 2011 Kate De Goldi Legends of the Swamp 2012 Fleur Beale Where Do Ideas Come From? 2013 Bill Nagelkerke The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2014 David Elliot When the Bowsprit Get Mixed with the Rudder 2015 Jill Eggleton Everyone Has A Story 2016 Barbara Else Making it up as I go along, or Finding the Cornerstones of Creativity 2017 Des Hunt Stories Out Loud 2018 Janice Marriott 2019 Mandy Hager 2020 Maria Gill 2021 Julia Marshall Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for 2021 awarded to publisher Julia Marshall https://authors.org.nz/storylines-margaret-mahy-medal-for-2021-awarded-to-publisher-julia-marshall/ Retrieved 23 Feb 20212022Diana Noonan2023James Norcliffe2024Elizabeth Jones2025Paula GreenKites and Anchors: a collage of writing poetry for and with children2026Tim TipeneChoosing to Fly
References
External links
Margaret Mahy Medal Award at the Christchurch City Libraries website. Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand