Thanks, Sophia. You should know best, given your parentage! But the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature is also enlightening, regarding your father's work and even gives
Biografi a separate entry.
Mixing fact and fiction was once termed "faction". The Swedish author Per Olov Enquist did that with his novel / reportage
The Legionnaires in 1968. While Lloyd Jones takes Albania, Enquist chose the Baltics.
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faction, a short-lived portmanteau word denoting works that present verifiably factual contents in the form of a fictional novel, as in Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night (1968). Although still sometimes used by journalists, the term suffers from the disadvantage of already meaning something else (i.e. a conspiratorial group within a divided organization).
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