Tessa Duder

Tessa Duder is a New Zealand author of novels for young people, short stories, plays and non-fiction, and a former swimmer who won a silver medal for her country at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. As a writer, she is primarily known for her Alex quartet and long-term advocacy for New Zealand children's literature; the annual Storylines Tessa Duder Award for unpublished young adult fiction is named in her honour. As an editor, she has also published a number of anthologies.