# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-gee
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:01:13.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-gee"
name: "Maurice Gee"
slug: "maurice-gee"
description: "Maurice Gough Gee was a New Zealand novelist. He was one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and having won numerous awards both in New Zealand and overseas, including multiple top prizes at the New Zealand Book Awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the UK, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, the Robert Burns Fellowship and a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. In 2003, he was recognised as one of New Zealand's greatest living artists across all disciplines by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, which presented him with an Icon Award."
tagline: "New Zealand novelist (1931–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maurice_Gee.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931-08-22"
deathDate: "2025-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.86
  momentum:             5.766642080029504
  historical:           10.55637333333333
  currentAttention:     31.86274509803921
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1088298/"
    handle:    "nm1088298"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "موريس جي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Gee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gee"
    title: "Maurice Gee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gee"
    title: "Maurice Gee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gee"
    title: "Maurice Gee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gee"
    title: "Maurice Gee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gee"
    title: "Maurice Gee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BC"
    title: "モーリス・ジー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gee"
    title: "Maurice Gee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Gee"
    title: "Maurice Gee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q446396"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15575"
    title: "Maurice Gee"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump