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Ian Cross


Born
in Masterton, New Zealand
November 06, 1925

Died
November 03, 2019

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Ian Robert Cross, CMG, was a novelist, journalist and administrator, and has contributed significantly to New Zealand letters. His first novel, The God Boy, was released in 1957 to critical acclaim. Later novels are The Backward Sex (1959), After ANZAC Day (1961) and The Family Man (1993). He also wrote two memoirs The Unlikely Bureaucrat (1988) & Such Absolute Beginners. (2007)

Cross was the first recipient of the Burns Fellowship at Otago University. (1959)

In 1973 he became editor of the New Zealand Listener, a position he held for four years.

Ian Cross died in a Kapiti Coast rest home. His wife Tui had died a month earlier.

Average rating: 3.57 · 304 ratings · 39 reviews · 5 distinct worksSimilar authors
The God Boy

3.64 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1957 — 17 editions
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The Backward Sex

2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions
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After Anzac Day

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions
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Such Absolute Beginners

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007
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The Unlikely Bureaucrat

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1988
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