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Jack Lasenby (John Millen Lasenby) was born on 9 March, 1931 in Waharoa, New Zealand, is a New Zealand writer (1931–2019). Discover Jack Lasenby's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

Popular As John Millen Lasenby
Occupation Writer
Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 9 March, 1931
Birthday 9 March
Birthplace Waharoa, New Zealand
Date of death 27 September, 2019
Died Place N/A
Nationality New Zealand

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1886

With Sam Hunt and Ian Riggir they published poems on an 1886 upright press obtained from the Government Printing Office.

He brought up his daughter and two stepchildren there.

1931

John Millen Lasenby (9 March 1931 – 27 September 2019), commonly known as Jack Lasenby, was a New Zealand writer.

He wrote over 30 books for children and young adults, many of which were shortlisted for or won prizes.

Born on 9 March 1931 in Waharoa, a small farming community in the Waikato, Lasenby was the son of Linda Lasenby (née Bryce) and Owen Liberty Lasenby.

1943

He attended Waharoa Primary School and went on to Matamata Intermediate and Matamata College from 1943 to 1949.

1950

From 1950 to 1952, he studied at Auckland University College, where he first met Margaret Mahy, who was also to become a notable New Zealand children's writer.

He later described her as "one of the three most intelligent people I've known, a dear friend, and a continual source of laughter, and imaginative wonder".

Mahy, in turn, described him as "perhaps the most innately New Zealand writer of all New Zealand writers for children".

As well as being (at various times) a postman, waterfront worker, gardener, fisherman and labourer, Lasenby spent about 10 years as a deer-culler and possum-trapper in Te Urewera where he sometimes said he got his education in the telling of tall tales around the camp fire.

He was also a primary school teacher, editor of the New Zealand School Journal and lecturer of English at Wellington Teachers' College before retiring at 55 to become a full-time writer.

Lasenby's books are funny, witty, entertaining and imaginative.

They include memorable and often hilarious characters such as Harry Wakatipu the talking horse, Aunt Effie and Uncle Trev, and range from tall tales and yarns to science fiction, dystopia and books set in the bush or in his own Depression-era childhood in small-town New Zealand.

He recalled that "the Matamata district was alive with stories in my childhood, sad, funny, haunting".

1980

Lasenby lived at Paremata near Wellington in the 1980s, where he sailed on the Porirua Harbour and Pauatahanui Inlet.

1989

The Mangrove Summer won the Esther Glen Award in the 1989 LIANZA Children's Book Awards.

1991

Uncle Trev, first published in 1991, won the Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book in 2012.

Lasenby was awarded the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1991 and the Victoria University of Wellington writing fellowship in 1993.

1995

He was the University of Otago College of Education writer-in-residence in 1995.

1996

The Waterfall was the junior fiction winner in the 1996 AIM Children's Book Awards.

1997

The Battle of Pook Island won the junior fiction category of the 1997 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.

1999

Because We Were the Travellers won an honour award in the 1999 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.

Taur won the senior fiction category in the 1999 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.

2002

The Jack Lasenby Award was established in his name in 2002 by the Wellington Children's Book Association.

2003

He was also the recipient of numerous awards including the Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award in 2003 and the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for Fiction in 2014.

In 2003, Lasenby was awarded the Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award.

2005

Aunt Effie and the Island that Sank won the junior fiction section of the 2005 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.

2009

Old Drumble won the junior fiction section of the 2009 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.

2012

Calling the Gods won the young adult section of the 2012 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.

2013

His standing in the literary world and his identity as a Wellington writer was also recognised with a plaque on the Wellington Writers Walk, unveiled by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae on 21 March 2013.

2014

He received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for Fiction in 2014.

2019

Lasenby lived for many years in central Wellington and died on 27 September 2019, aged 88.

Many of Lasenby's books were shortlisted for or won prizes or were named as Storylines Notable Books.