Mervyn Thompson
New Zealand author
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contribution to New Zealand literature
- In New Zealand literature: Drama
Mervyn Thompson wrote expressionist plays mixing elements of autobiography with social and political comment (O! Temperance! and First Return [both published 1974]). Greg McGee probed the surface of New Zealand’s “national game,” rugby, in the hugely successful Foreskin’s Lament (published 1981). Roger Hall wrote clever…
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