Meet the Author - Tessa Duder

Meet renowned author Tessa Duder and hear her story of how James Cook chartered the first map of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Tessa Duder writes for children and young adults and is also an author of short stories, plays and non-fiction. Among her numerous distinctions, Duder has been awarded the OBE and the Margaret Mahy Medal. She won the 2003 Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship and in 2007 was awarded an Artists to Antarctica Fellowship, allowing her to spend nearly three weeks at Scott Base. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Waikato in 2008.

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