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Margaret Mahy

Living place: New Zealand

Birthday: 21-3-1936 (88 years old)

Global rank: #53216

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Who is Young author Margaret Mahy?
Notable for her Carnegie Medal award-winning youth books and The Haunting, Mahy also wrote classically and extensively translated The Man Who's Mother was a Pirate and The Lion in Meadow.
Her numerous literary honors include the 2006 Andersen Christian Hans Award; Book Award 2003 New Zealand Post for Children; and the 2005 Phoenix Award.

Young / Before famous

After studying at both Auckland University College and Canterbury University College, she trained as a librarian and was eventually hired as a librarian by the Canterbury Public Library of the Early Childhood.

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She and four young siblings were raised in Whakatane, New Zealand. She later settled in Canterbury, New Zealand, with her two daughters (whom she grew up alone).

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Young author Margaret Mahy?
She and Joy Cowley are well-known children's authors from New Zealand.

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When was Young author Margaret Mahy born?
Margaret Mahy birthday 21-3-1936 (at the age of 88).
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Margaret Mahy was born in . is a Young author, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Margaret Mahy's global rank is 53216 and whose rank is 89 in list of famous Young author.

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Events in 1936 and 21-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Margaret Mahy

Rome-Berlin Axis is proclaimed (Japan to join in 1940).
King George V dies; succeeded by son, Edward VIII, who soon abdicates to marry an American-born divorcée, and is succeeded by brother, George VI.
Spanish civil war begins. Hundreds of Americans join the "Lincoln Brigades." (Franco's fascist forces defeat Loyalist forces by 1939, when Madrid falls.)
War between China and Japan begins, to continue through World War II.
Japan and Germany sign anti-Comintern pact; joined by Italy in 1937.
Gen. Anastasio Somoza leads a coup d'etat in Nicaragua ushering in Somoza family dictatorship for more than 4 decades.

Birthday Margaret Mahy (21-3) in history

Day 21-3 year 1556: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury was imprisoned in Oxford, UK, accused of heresy.
Day 21-3 year 1804: The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth.
Day 21-3 year 1871: Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
Day 21-3 year 1960: Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, after which the African National Congress was banned. 25 years later, a march marking the anniversary was also disrupted by police fire.
Day 21-3 year 1963: Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.
Day 21-3 year 1965: Martin Luther King, Jr., led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Day 21-3 year 2010: The House of Representatives passes a bill that will overhaul the American health-care system. The bill, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will be sent to President Obama to sign into law.