Ann Beaglehole | |
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Born | Szegoe Aniko[1] 1948 (age 75–76) Siklós, Hungary |
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Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington (PhD in history) |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
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Thesis | Facing the Past: Looking Back at Refugee Childhood in New Zealand (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Malcolm McKinnon |
Ann Beaglehole (née Szegoe; born 1948) is a New Zealand writer and historian. In the 1950s, her family emigrated from Hungary to New Zealand as refugees following the Hungarian Revolution. She earned a PhD in history and a master's degree in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington, and has written extensively on the history of immigration to New Zealand, including the history of Jewish immigrants and refugees. In addition to a number of non-fiction history works, she has also written a semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a Hungarian Jewish refugee in New Zealand.