Tessa Duder, one of New Zealand's most honored children's writers, was the president of the New Zealand Society of Authors. She taught a course in children's writing at the Wanaka Autumn Art School and has done much to benefit artists' rights.
She has received Esther Glen Awards for Alex, Alex in Winter and Alessandra: Alex in Rome. She also won an AIM Children's Book Award for Senior Fiction for Songs for Alex. She will be featured at the annual Storylines Festival of New Zealand Children's Writers and Illustrators 2015.
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