Ted Dawe

Ted Dawe's won the New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and the award in the Young Adult Fiction category with his title Into the River. This engaging coming of age novel follows its main protagonist from his childhood in small town rural New Zealand to an elite Auckland boarding school where he must forge his own way including battling with his cultural identity. The book was temporarily banned in 2015 by the Film and Literature Board of Review. But recently, it has been optioned for film.