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Robin Hyde (1906–1939) was a New Zealand journalist, novelist and poet. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, she was brought to New Zealand before she was six months old and grew up in Wellington. She began her journalistic career at the Dominion, aged sixteen years old, and in succeeding years worked for the Christchurch Sun, the Wanganui Chronicle, and the New Zealand Observer. Over ten years of great turbulence in her personal and professional life, Robin Hyde wrote ten books of poetry and prose, among them the autobiographical novel The Godwits Fly, the two documentary novels featuring Starkie – Passport to Hell and Nor the Years Condemn – and the travel book Dragon Rampant, as well as many articles and letters. Further volumes of poetry, autobiography and journalism were published after her death in 1939, as her posthumous reputation grew. In her range, originality, distinctively New Zealand voice and attention to political, feminist and Māori subjects, she is now regarded as one of our most important writers. A biography of Hyde – The Book of Iris, written by her friend Gloria Rawlinson and son Derek Challis – was published by Auckland University Press in 2002.

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Robin Hyde

Robin Hyde

Passport to Hell

The Book of Nadath

The Godwits Fly

Young Knowledge: the Poems of Robin Hyde