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Ian Cross

Born

in Masterton, New Zealand

November 06, 1925

Died

November 03, 2019

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

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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.

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Average rating: 3.56 · 305 ratings · 39 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The God Boy 3.63 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 1957 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Backward Sex 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After Anzac Day 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Such Absolute Beginners really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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