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Biography: Mahy, Margaret May

Margaret Mahy on For art's sake

Margaret Mahy talks about the importance of morals, language and jokes in her writing, and the animation of her story The great white man-eating shark on the 1996 television show For art's sake. The interviewer is Alison Parr.

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Reference: F39923 - FOR ARTS SAKE: MARGARET MAHY (STUDIO INTERVIEW) (1996). Courtesy of Pacific Screen.

For Arts Sake (1996) courtesy Pacific Screen

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Tessa Duder. 'Mahy, Margaret May', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/47118/margaret-mahy-on-for-arts-sake (accessed 4 June 2026).