Duckworth, Marilyn (1935–)

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Duckworth, Marilyn (1935–)

New Zealand novelist. Born 1935 in Otahuhu, Auckland; spent wartime in England; sister of Fleur Adcock (poet); married 4 times.

Works include A Gap in the Spectrum (1959), The Matchbox House (1960), A Barbarous Tongue (1963), Over the Fence is Out (1969), Other Lovers' Children (1975), Disorderly Conduct (1984), which won the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, Married Alive (1985), Rest for the Wicked (1986), Pulling Faces (1987), A Message from Harpo (1989), Explosions on the Sun (1989) and Studmuffin (1997). Awarded OBE (1987).

See also autobiography, Camping on the Faultline (2000).