Ịchụ nta
Des Hunt (amụrụ na 29 Disemba 1941) bụ onye nkuzi New Zealand na onye edemede maka ụmụaka na ndị okenye. E depụtara ọtụtụ n'ime akwụkwọ ya ma ọ bụ merie ihe nrite, gụnyere Cry of the Taniwha nke meriri Gaelyn Gordon Award maka Akwụkwọ a hụrụ n'anya na 2016. Ọ bụkwa onye natara prestigious Margaret Mahy Award na 2017. Ọ bi na Matarangi, Coromandel Peninsula.

Akụkọ ndụ 
A mụrụ Des Hunt na 29 Disemba 1941 na Palmerston North. Dị ka nwatakịrị, sayensị nwere mmasị na ya nke bụ ihe "masị ya amasị na nke kachasị mma" n'ụlọ akwụkwọ. Akwụkwọ kachasị amasị ya n'oge ọ bụ nwata bụ The Lost World nke Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dere na onye edemede ọzọ nwere mmetụta na ndụ ya bụ Howard Spring.

Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na Terrace End School, Palmerston North Intermediate, Palmerston South Boys' High School, Victoria University of Wellington na Christchurch College of Education.

Hunt bụ onye nkuzi ihe karịrị afọ 42, malite na Hawera High School. Ọ kụziri kemịkalụ, physics, electronics na kọmpụta, ma dee akwụkwọ sayensị.

N'afọ 2007, ọ lara ezumike nká n'ọrụ nkuzi iji tinye onwe ya n'ide akwụkwọ, mana ọ ka bụ onye na-eleta ụlọ akwụkwọ ugboro ugboro iji kwuo maka akwụkwọ ya ma na-ejikarị mmeghachi omume kemịkal na ngosi ya dị ka ụzọ ịkọwa ma gosipụta usoro ederede. Ịhụnanya ya maka ụwa okike pụtara ìhè n'akwụkwọ ya nke na-ekwukarị maka nsogbu gburugburu ebe obibi ma nwee isiokwu nchekwa siri ike.

Ọ lụrụ di ma nwee ụmụ abụọ toro eto ma biri na Matarangi, Coromandel Peninsula.

Onyinye na ihe nrite  
E depụtara ọtụtụ akwụkwọ Hunt maka onyinye ma ọ bụ kpọọ aha dị ka Storylines Notable Books.

Ọ bụ onye ikpeazụ na NZ Post Children's Book Awards 2003 (A Friend in Paradise), 2007 (Frog Whistle Mine), 2010 (Cry of the Taniwha) na 2014 (Project Huia). A họpụtara Cool Nukes na Children's Choice category nke afọ 2016, ọ bụkwa onye ikpeazụ na 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults with Sunken Forest. Akwụkwọ ya bụ Cry of the Taniwha natara onyinye Gaelyn Gordon maka akwụkwọ a hụrụ n'anya nke ukwuu na 2016.

N'afọ 2017, Hunt bụ onye natara Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal and Lecture Award ma nye okwu ya akpọrọ Stories Out Loud .

Ọ natawokwa Woolf Fisher Memorial Award maka ọrụ agụmakwụkwọ na New Zealand Institute of Physics Award.

E depụtara akwụkwọ ya nke afọ 2020, Red Edge, maka onyinye Young Readers nke afọ 2021 na Ngaio Marsh Awards.

Akwụkwọ 

 Enyi Dị Na Paradaịs (HarperCollins, 2002) 
 Ọgba Moa (HarperCollins, 2005) 
 Mmanụ ala Frog (HarperCollins, 2006) 
 Ebe Cuckoos Kpọọ (HarperCollins, 2007) 
 Onyinyo n'Ice (HarperCollins, 2007) 
 Ezé (HarperCollins, 2008) 
 Whale Pot Bay (HarperCollins, 2009) 
 Mkpu nke Taniwha (HarperCollins, 2009) 
 The Secret of Jelly Mountain (Scholastic, 2009) bipụtara ọzọ dị ka The Last TuataraTuatara Ikpeazụ
 Ebe A Na-edebe Agụ iyi (HarperCollins, 2010) 
 Akwụkwọ Okike nke Naughty Kid (HarperCollins, 2010) 
 Ihe mere na Peco (HarperCollins, 2011) 
 Ihe Cody na-atụghị anya ya (HarperCollins, 2011) 
 Steel Pelicans (HarperCollins, 2012) 
 Phantom nke Terawhiti (HarperCollins, 2013) 
 Project Huia (Scholastic, 2013) 
 Ogige Ntụrụndụ Crown (Oceanbooks, 2013) 
 Cool Nukes (Scholastic, 2015) 
 Skink Gully (Torea Press, 2015) 
 Oké ọhịa Sunken (Scholastic, 2016) 
 Nnukwu ábụ́bà (Torea Press, 2016) 
 Broken Poppies (Scholastic, 2018; Kiwis na Agha) 
 Search for a Kiwi Killer (Torea Press, 2018) 
 Iji jide Onye Ozu (Scholastic, 2019) 
 Red Edge (Scholastic, 2020)

Ihe odide 

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