The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, which ran from 1968 to 1995 (known as the Montana Book Awards from 1994 to 1995).
The awards have changed name several times depending on sponsorship. From 1996 to 2009, the awards were known as the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and sponsored by
Montana Wines
Brancott Estate is the brand adopted since 2010 by Pernod Ricard for New Zealand's largest wine producer, formerly Montana Wines, which now operates as the New Zealand division of Pernod Ricard Winemakers. The name comes from its Brancott winer ...
.
From 2010 until 2014, the awards were known as the New Zealand Post Book Awards.
Since 2015, the main sponsors have been property developer Ockham Residential, the Acorn Foundation,
Creative New Zealand
The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government, investing in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes and developing markets ...
, Mary and Peter Biggs, Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand and biotech company MitoQ. The awards event is the opening event of the
Auckland Writers Festival
Auckland Writers Festival Waituhi o Tāmaki is the largest annual literary festival in Aotearoa New Zealand since 1999. It has about 200 public events each year featuring local and international writers as guests.
History and staff
The inaug ...
, held annually in May.
History and format
Before 1996 there were two major New Zealand literary awards events: the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards (1968 to 1995, known as the Montana Book Awards from 1994 to 1995) and the New Zealand Book Awards (1976 to 1995).
The Wattie Book of the Year Award (named for
Sir James Wattie) was formed in 1968, supported by the New Zealand Publishers Association and sponsored by the company
Wattie's
Heinz Wattie's Limited (or simply Wattie's) is a New Zealand-based food producer of frozen and packaged fruit, vegetables, sauces, baby food, cooking sauces, dressings and pet foods in the New Zealand market.
History
Founded in 1934 by Sir Jame ...
. This award was the first of its kind in New Zealand.
The first recipients were
John Morton and
Michael Miller for ''The New Zealand Sea Shore''.
The first novel to win an award was ''Smith's Dream'' by
C.K. Stead in 1972.
The award became the Goodman Fielder Wattie Awards, and only had a single category covering fiction, non-fiction and other genres.
In 1994 the winemaking company Montana became the sponsor and the awards were renamed to the Montana Book Awards.
The New Zealand Book Awards were set up by the New Zealand Literary Fund, a government organisation, in 1976. Annual awards were presented for literary merit in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and (later) book production.
In 1996, the two award series were amalgamated to form the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, managed by Booksellers New Zealand (a bookselling association) and offering prizes in six categories.
In 2010, the
New Zealand Post
NZ Post ( mi, Tukurau Aotearoa), shortened from New Zealand Post, is a state-owned enterprise responsible for providing postal service in New Zealand.
The New Zealand Post Office, a government agency, provided postal, banking, and telecommunica ...
took over as sponsor, having supported the
New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a series of literary awards presented annually to recognise excellence in children and young adult's literature in New Zealand. The awards began in 1982 as the New Zealand Governm ...
for the previous 14 years.
In 2015, Auckland property development firm Ockham Residential assumed sponsorship of the awards, and the New Zealand Book Awards Trust took over the governance and management. No prizes were presented in that year, and the awards were streamlined to discontinue the Book of the Year Award, the Booksellers' Choice Award and the People's Choice Award. Since the first Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2016, the ceremony has been held each year in May, as part of the Auckland Writers Festival.
In 2020 the award winners were announced in a virtual presentation, after the Auckland Writers Festival was cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
.
, there are five principal prizes: fiction (currently known as the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction), general non-fiction (sponsored by
Royal Society Te Apārangi
The Royal Society Te Apārangi (in full, Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi) is an independent, statutory not-for-profit body in New Zealand providing funding and policy advice in the fields of sciences and the humanities.
History
The R ...
), illustrated non-fiction, poetry (currently known as the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry) and Te Mūrau o te Tuhi Māori Language Award for books written entirely in
te reo Māori. "Best First Book" prizes are awarded to first time authors in the first four categories, currently sponsored by MitoQ.
Each category is judged by a panel of three judges. Winners of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction receive a minimum of 55,000, and is the largest cash book prize in New Zealand. The other principal prizewinners receive 10,000 each, and the winners of the four MitoQ Best First Book awards receive 2,500.
Fiction
Fiction award
Since 2020, the top prize for fiction has been the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. Between 2017 and 2019, the top prize for fiction was known as the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize. In 2017, it was known as the Acorn Foundation Literary Award. From 1996 to 2016, it was known as the Fiction Prize.
* 2022 –
Whiti Hereaka
Whiti Hereaka (born 1978) is a New Zealand playwright, novelist and screenwriter and a barrister and solicitor. She has held a number of writing residencies and appeared at literary festivals in New Zealand and overseas, and several of her books ...
, ''Kurangaituku''.
Huia Publishers
Huia Publishers (HUIA) is a book publishing company based in Wellington, New Zealand established in 1991. HUIA publish material in Māori language and English for adults and children.
HUIA was founded by Robyn Rangihuia Bargh (CNZM) and her ...
* 2021 –
Airini Beautrais
Airini Jane Beautrais (born 1982) is a poet and short-story writer from New Zealand.
Background
Beautrais was born in 1982 and grew up in Auckland and Whanganui. She studied creative writing and ecological science at the Victoria University o ...
, ''Bug Week & Other Stories''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2020 –
Becky Manawatu
Becky Manawatu (born 1982) is a New Zealand writer of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha, and Pākehā background. In 2020, she won two Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her first novel, ''Auē'' and Best Crime Novel at the 2020 Ngaio Marsh ...
, ''Auē''.
Mākaro Press
Mākaro Press is a New Zealand publisher based in Wellington. It was founded in 2013 and has published several award-winning books including ''Auē'' by Becky Manawatu.
History
Mākaro was founded in 2013 by novelist and editor Mary McCallu ...
* 2019 –
Fiona Kidman
Dame Fiona Judith Kidman ( Eakin, born 26 March 1940) is a New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story writer. She grew up in Northland, and worked as a librarian and a freelance journalist early in her career. She began writing ...
, ''This Mortal Boy''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
,
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House LLC is an Anglo-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House.
On April 2, 2020, Bertels ...
* 2018 –
Pip Adam
Pip Adam is a novelist, short story writer, and reviewer from New Zealand.
Background
Adam was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended the New Zealand Film and Television School in Christchurch before moving to Dunedin. Adam has an MA ...
, ''The New Animals''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2017 –
Catherine Chidgey, ''The Wish Child''. Victoria University Press
* 2016 –
Stephen Daisley, ''Coming Rain''.
Text Publishing
Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria.
Company background
Text Media was founded in Melbourne in 1990 by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher, along wit ...
* 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors
* 2014 –
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton (born 24 September 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International In ...
, ''
The Luminaries
''The Luminaries'' is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields. Instead ...
''. Victoria University Press
* 2013 –
Kirsty Gunn
Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist and writer of short stories.
Her stories include "Rain", which led to the 2001 film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs and also the 2001 ballet by the Rosas Company, set to "Music ...
, ''The Big Music''.
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...
* 2012 –
Paula Morris
Paula Jane Kiri Morris (born 18 August 1965) is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer editor and literary academic. She is an associate professor at the University of Auckland and founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature.
Life
Mor ...
, ''Rangatira''.
Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2011 –
Laurence Fearnley, ''The Hut Builder''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2010 –
Alison Wong, ''As the Earth Turns Silver''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2009 –
Emily Perkins
Emily Jean Perkins (born May 4, 1977) is a Canadian former actress, best known for her roles as Crystal Braywood in the TV series ''Hiccups'', young Beverly Marsh in '' Stephen King's It'', and Brigitte Fitzgerald in ''Ginger Snaps''. Since the l ...
, ''A Novel About My Wife''.
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions.
Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
* 2008 –
Charlotte Grimshaw
Charlotte Grimshaw (born December 1966) is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, columnist and former lawyer. Since the publication of her debut novel ''Provocation'' (1999), she has received a number of significant literary awards incl ...
, ''Opportunity''. Random House NZ
* 2007 –
Lloyd Jones Lloyd Jones or Lloyd-Jones may refer to:
People Sports
* Lloyd Jones (athlete) (1884–1971), American athlete in the 1908 Summer Olympics
*Lloyd Jones (figure skater) (born 1988), Welsh ice dancer
*Lloyd Jones (English footballer) (born 1995), En ...
, ''
Mister Pip''. Penguin
* 2006 –
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand an ...
, ''Blindsight''. Penguin
* 2005 –
Patricia Grace
Patricia Frances Grace (; born 17 August 1937) is a New Zealand Māori writer of novels, short stories, and children's books. She began writing as a young adult, while working as a teacher. Her early short stories were published in magazines ...
, ''Tu''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2004 –
Annamarie Jagose, ''
Slow Water''. Victoria University Press
* 2003 –
Stephanie Johnson, ''The Shag Incident''. Vintage Books
* 2002 –
Craig Marriner
Craig Marriner (born 1974) is a novelist from Rotorua, New Zealand. He is best known for his award-winning first novel ''Stonedogs'' (2001).
Early life
Marriner was born in Rotorua and had what he describes as a "strictly working-class backgrou ...
, ''
Stonedogs
''Stonedogs'' is the first novel by New Zealand writer Craig Marriner. It was published in 2001 and has won a Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Montana New Zealand Book Award. The book has been described as "a kind of ''A Clockwork Orange (novel), ...
''. Vintage Books
* 2001 –
Lloyd Jones Lloyd Jones or Lloyd-Jones may refer to:
People Sports
* Lloyd Jones (athlete) (1884–1971), American athlete in the 1908 Summer Olympics
*Lloyd Jones (figure skater) (born 1988), Welsh ice dancer
*Lloyd Jones (English footballer) (born 1995), En ...
, ''The Book of Fame''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2000 –
Owen Marshall
Owen Marshall Jones (born 17 August 1941, Te Kuiti, New Zealand), who writes under the pen name Owen Marshall, is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. The third son of a Methodist minister younger brother of Allan Jones, and older br ...
, ''Harlequin Rex''. Vintage
* 1999 –
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Fiona Knox (born 15 February 1959) is a New Zealand writer. She has authored several novels for both adults and teenagers, autobiographical novellas, and a collection of essays. One of her best-known works is ''The Vintner's Luck'' ( ...
, ''
The Vintner's Luck
''The Vintner's Luck'' is a romantic fantasy novel by New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox, first published in 1998. It was her fourth full-length novel, and her first book published outside New Zealand. The novel charts the relationship between a ...
''. Victoria University Press
* 1998 –
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand an ...
, ''Live Bodies''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 1997 –
Alan Duff
Alan Duff (born 26 October 1950) is a New Zealand novelist and newspaper columnist. He is best known as the author of the novel '' Once Were Warriors'' (1990), which was made into a film of the same name in 1994.
Biography
Alan Duff was bo ...
, ''
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?''. Vintage
* 1996 –
Sheridan Keith, ''Zoology: A Novel''. Penguin
Best first book award (fiction)
Since 2018, this award has been known as the MitoQ Best First Book Awards: Hubert Church Prize for Fiction. Between 2015 and 2018, this award was known as the Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction. From 1997 to 2014, this award was known as the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction Prize. In 1996, this award was known as the Best First Book Award, Fiction. Prior to 1996, this award had been presented since 1945 by
PEN NZ, and was named for the poet, novelist and critic
Hubert Church
Hubert Newman Wigmore Church (13 June 1857 – 8 April 1932) was an Australian poet.
Church was born in Hobart, Tasmania, the son of Hubert Day Church and his wife Mary Ann. His father, a barrister, came from Somerset and was a descendant of the ...
.
* 2022 –
Rebecca K Reilly
Rebecca K Reilly (born 1991) is a New Zealand author. Her debut novel ''Greta & Valdin'' (2021) received the 2019 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. At the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, it was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott A ...
, ''Greta & Valdin''.
Te Herenga Waka University Press
* 2021 –
Rachel Kerr
Rachel Charmaine Kerr is a British singer/songwriter, celebrity vocal coach and entrepreneur from Walsall, England. She is also the CEO and founder of Singercise. She is a member of the Grammy Award Association and a BET Music Matters endorsed ...
, ''Victory Park''.
Mākaro Press
Mākaro Press is a New Zealand publisher based in Wellington. It was founded in 2013 and has published several award-winning books including ''Auē'' by Becky Manawatu.
History
Mākaro was founded in 2013 by novelist and editor Mary McCallu ...
* 2020 –
Becky Manawatu
Becky Manawatu (born 1982) is a New Zealand writer of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha, and Pākehā background. In 2020, she won two Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her first novel, ''Auē'' and Best Crime Novel at the 2020 Ngaio Marsh ...
, ''Auē''. Mākaro Press
* 2019 –
Kirsten Warner, ''The Sound of Breaking Glass''. Mākaro Press
* 2018 –
Annaleese Jochems
Annaleese Jochems (born 1994) is a New Zealand author and bookseller. Her debut novel ''Baby'' (2017) won the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing and the Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Award ...
, ''Baby''. Victoria University Press
* 2017 –
Gina Cole, ''Black Ice Matter''.
Huia Publishers
Huia Publishers (HUIA) is a book publishing company based in Wellington, New Zealand established in 1991. HUIA publish material in Māori language and English for adults and children.
HUIA was founded by Robyn Rangihuia Bargh (CNZM) and her ...
* 2016 –
David Coventry, ''The Invisible Mile''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors
* 2014 –
Amy Head
Amy Head (born 1976) is a New Zealand writer.
Biography
Head was born in Papakura, Auckland in 1976. She studied at the University of Canterbury, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts; she then completed a Master of Arts with Distinction in creat ...
, ''Tough''. Victoria University Press
* 2013 –
Lawrence Patchett, ''I Got His Blood on Me''. Victoria University Press
* 2012 –
Hamish Clayton
Hamish is a Scottish masculine given name. It is the anglicized form of the vocative case of the Gaelic name ''Seamus'' or ''Sheumais''. It is therefore, the equivalent of James.
People Given name
* Hamish Bennett, retired New Zealand cricketer ...
, ''Wulf''.
Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2011 –
Pip Adam
Pip Adam is a novelist, short story writer, and reviewer from New Zealand.
Background
Adam was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended the New Zealand Film and Television School in Christchurch before moving to Dunedin. Adam has an MA ...
, ''Everything We Hoped for''. Victoria University Press
* 2010 –
Anna Taylor, ''Relief''. Victoria University Press
* 2009 –
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton (born 24 September 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International In ...
, ''The Rehearsal''. Victoria University Press
* 2008 –
Mary McCallum
Mary McCallum (born 1961) is a publisher, author and journalist from New Zealand.
Background
Mary McCallum was born in 1961 in Lusaka, Zambia. Aged four, she moved to New Zealand and was educated in Wellington and the United Kingdom, includ ...
, ''The Blue''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2007 –
Rachael King
Rachael King (born 1970) is an author from New Zealand.
Background
King was born in 1970, in Hamilton, New Zealand. In 2001 she received a Master of Arts in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington.
King is a bass guitarist an ...
, ''The Sound of Butterflies''.
Black Swan
The black swan (''Cygnus atratus'') is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Within Australia, the black swan is nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon c ...
* 2006 –
Gillian Ranstead, ''A Red Silk Sea''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2005 –
Julian Novitz
Julian may refer to:
People
* Julian (emperor) (331–363), Roman emperor from 361 to 363
* Julian (Rome), referring to the Roman gens Julia, with imperial dynasty offshoots
* Saint Julian (disambiguation), several Christian saints
* Julian (gi ...
, ''My Real Life and Other Stories''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2004 –
Kelly Ana Morey, ''Bloom''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2003 –
Paula Morris
Paula Jane Kiri Morris (born 18 August 1965) is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer editor and literary academic. She is an associate professor at the University of Auckland and founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature.
Life
Mor ...
''Queen of Beauty''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2002 –
Craig Marriner
Craig Marriner (born 1974) is a novelist from Rotorua, New Zealand. He is best known for his award-winning first novel ''Stonedogs'' (2001).
Early life
Marriner was born in Rotorua and had what he describes as a "strictly working-class backgrou ...
, ''
Stonedogs
''Stonedogs'' is the first novel by New Zealand writer Craig Marriner. It was published in 2001 and has won a Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Montana New Zealand Book Award. The book has been described as "a kind of ''A Clockwork Orange (novel), ...
''. Vintage Books
* 2001 –
Karyn Hay
Karyn Hay (born 1959 in Auckland) is a New Zealand author and broadcaster. She came to fame as the presenter of 1980s music TV show Radio with Pictures before going on to an extensive career in television and radio.
Early life
Hay grew up in t ...
, ''Emerald Budgies''. Vintage Books
* 2000 –
Duncan Sarkies
Duncan Sarkies is a New Zealand screenwriter, playwright, novelist, stand-up comic and short story writer.
Sarkies grew up in the South Island city of Dunedin and is the brother of Robert Sarkies a New Zealand film director who is also a scrip ...
, ''Stray Thoughts And Nosebleeds''. Victoria University Press
* 1999 –
William Brandt, ''Alpha Male''. Victoria University Press
* 1998 –
Catherine Chidgey, ''In a Fishbone Church''. Victoria University Press
* 1997 –
Dominic Sheehan, ''Finding Home''.
Secker & Waburg
* 1996 –
Emily Perkins
Emily Jean Perkins (born May 4, 1977) is a Canadian former actress, best known for her roles as Crystal Braywood in the TV series ''Hiccups'', young Beverly Marsh in '' Stephen King's It'', and Brigitte Fitzgerald in ''Ginger Snaps''. Since the l ...
, ''Not Her Real Name''. Victoria University Press
Poetry
Poetry award
Since 2020, this award has been the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry. Before 2019, this award was known as the Poetry Award.
* 2022 –
Joanna Preston
Joanna Preston (born 1972) is an Australian poet, editor and creative writing tutor based in New Zealand. She has published two award-winning collections of poetry.
Life and career
Preston was born in Sydney in 1972, and grew up in rural New S ...
, ''Tumble''.
Otago University Press
Otago University Press is an academic publisher associated with the University of Otago. The press is located in Dunedin, New Zealand. The Otago University Press is the oldest academic publisher in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Otago University Press ...
* 2021 –
Tusiata Avia
Donna Tusiata Avia (born 1966) is a New Zealand poet and children's author.
Background
Avia was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her father is Samoan and her mother is Palagi (New Zealand European). Avia graduated from the Unive ...
, ''The Savage Coloniser Book''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2020 –
Helen Rickerby
Helen Rickerby is a New Zealand poet, writer, editor and publisher. In 2020, she won the Mary and Peter Biggs poetry prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Biography
In 1995, she was part of the group that founded ''JAAM'' literary journa ...
, ''How to Live''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
* 2019 –
Helen Heath
Helen Heath (born 1970) is a poet from New Zealand.
Background
Heath is based in Wellington, New Zealand. She received her MA and PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, at the Victoria University of Wellin ...
, ''Are Friends Electric?''. Victoria University Press
* 2018 –
Elizabeth Smither
Elizabeth Edwina Smither (born 15 September 1941) is a New Zealand poet and writer.
Life and career
Smither was born in New Plymouth, and worked there part-time as a librarian.
Her first collection of poetry, ''Here Come the Clouds'', was publi ...
, ''Night Horse''. Auckland University Press
* 2017 –
Andrew Johnston, ''Fits & Starts''. Victoria University Press
* 2016 –
David Eggleton
David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer. Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022. Eggleton's work has app ...
, ''The Conch Trumpet''.
Otago University Press
Otago University Press is an academic publisher associated with the University of Otago. The press is located in Dunedin, New Zealand. The Otago University Press is the oldest academic publisher in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Otago University Press ...
* 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors
* 2014 –
Vincent O'Sullivan, ''Us, Then''. Victoria University Press
* 2013 –
Anne Kennedy, ''The Darling North''. Auckland University Press
* 2012 –
Rhian Gallagher
Rhian Gallagher (born 1961) is a poet from New Zealand.
Background
Gallagher was born in 1961 in Timaru, New Zealand. She currently lives in Dunedin.
Career
Between 1995 and 2005, Gallagher worked in publishing in London before returning t ...
, ''Shift''. Auckland University Press
* 2011 –
Kate Camp
Kate Camp (born 1972) is a New Zealand poet and author who currently resides in Wellington.
Early life and education
Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She has a BA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington.
Career ...
, ''The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls''. Victoria University Press
* 2010 –
Brian Turner, ''Just This''. Victoria University Press
* 2009 –
Jenny Bornholdt
Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is a New Zealand poet and anthologist.
Biography
Born in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism. She studied poetry with Bill Manhire ...
, ''The Rocky Shore''. Victoria University Press
* 2008 –
Janet Charman
Janet Charman (born 1954) is a poet from New Zealand.
Background
Born in 1954, Charman grew up in the Hutt Valley and Taranaki.
Charman initially trained as a nurse and worked in social welfare. After receiving an MA in English from the Univ ...
, ''Cold Snack''. Auckland University Press
* 2007 –
Janet Frame
Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She was internationally renowned for her work, which included novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awar ...
, ''The Goose Bath''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2006 –
Bill Manhire
William Manhire (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate, Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at ...
, ''Lifted''. Victoria University Press
* 2005 –
Vincent O'Sullivan, ''Nice Morning for It, Adam''. Victoria University Press
* 2004 –
Anne Kennedy, ''Sing-song''. Auckland University Press
* 2003 –
Glenn Colquhoun
Dr. Glenn Colquhoun (born 1964) is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.
Life
Colquhoun was born in Papakura, Auckland, and practices medicine on the Kapiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive.
Colquhoun's firs ...
, ''Playing God''.
Steele Roberts
* 2002 –
Hone Tuwhare Honing is a kind of metalworking.
Hone may also refer to:
* Hone (name) (incl. Hōne), a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname
* Hõne language
Hõne is a Jukunoid language spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria
...
, ''Piggy-back Moon''. Godwit
* 2001 –
Allen Curnow
Thomas Allen Monro Curnow (17 June 1911 – 23 September 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist.
Life
Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of a fourth generation New Zealander, an Anglican clergyman, and he grew up in a relig ...
, ''The Bells of St Babel's''. Auckland University Press
* 2000 –
Elizabeth Smither
Elizabeth Edwina Smither (born 15 September 1941) is a New Zealand poet and writer.
Life and career
Smither was born in New Plymouth, and worked there part-time as a librarian.
Her first collection of poetry, ''Here Come the Clouds'', was publi ...
, ''The Lark Quartet''. Auckland University Press
* 1999 –
Vincent O'Sullivan, ''Seeing You Asked''. Victoria University Press
* 1998 –
Hone Tuwhare Honing is a kind of metalworking.
Hone may also refer to:
* Hone (name) (incl. Hōne), a list of people with the surname, given name or nickname
* Hõne language
Hõne is a Jukunoid language spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria
...
, ''Shape-Shifter''. Steele Roberts
* 1997 – edited by Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien and Mark Williams, ''An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English''. Oxford University Press
* 1996 –
Bill Manhire
William Manhire (born 27 December 1946) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, emeritus professor, and New Zealand's inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate, Poet Laureate (1997–1998). He founded New Zealand's first creative writing course at ...
, ''My Sunshine''. Victoria University Press
Best first book award (poetry)
Since 2018, this award has been the MitoQ Best First Book Awards: Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry. Between 2015 and 2018, this award was known as the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry. From 1997 to 2014, this award was known as the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Prize. In 1996, this award was known as the Best First Book Award, Poetry. Prior to 1996, this award had been presented since 1940 by
PEN NZ, and was named for
Jessie Mackay
Jessie Mackay (15 December 1864 – 23 August 1938) was a New Zealand poet, journalist, feminist and animal rights activist.Amey, Catherine. (2014). ''The Compassionate Contrarians: A History of Vegetarians in Aotearoa New Zealand''. Rebel Pr ...
, New Zealand's first local-born poet.
* 2022 –
Nicole Titihuia Hawkins
Nicole Titihuia Hawkins is a New Zealand poet. In 2022 she won an Ockham New Zealand Book Award.
Biography
Hawkins trained as a high school teacher and taught English, social studies and tikanga Māori. She has organised literary events such as ...
, ''Whai''. We Are Babies Press
* 2021 –
Jackson Nieuwland
Jay Nieuwland (born 1990) is a New Zealand poet, editor and co-founder of the publishing house We Are Babies. Her 2021 publication ''I Am a Human Being'' won the best first book award (poetry) at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Biography
...
, ''I Am a Human Being''. Compound Press
* 2020 –
Jane Arthur
Jane Arthur (18 November 1827 – 25 May 1907), was a Scottish feminist, philanthropist and activist. She was the first woman to be elected to a Scottish school board.
Life
Jane Glen was born in Foxbar in Renfrewshire on 18 November 1827 to Jes ...
, ''Craven''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2019 –
Tayi Tibble
Tayi Tibble (born 1995) is a New Zealand poet. Her poetry reflects Māori culture and her own family history. Her first collection of poetry, ''Poūkahangatus'' (2018), received the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand B ...
, ''Poūkahangatus''. Victoria University Press
* 2018 –
Hannah Mettner, ''Fully Clothed and So Forgetful''. Victoria University Press
* 2017 –
Hera Lindsay Bird
Hera Lindsay Bird (born 31 December 1987) is a New Zealand poet.
Life and career
Hera Lindsay Bird was born and raised in Thames in the North Island of New Zealand. She attended Victoria University of Wellington and then received her Master's d ...
, ''Hera Lindsay Bird''. Victoria University Press
* 2016 –
Chris Tse, ''How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
* 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors
* 2014 –
Marty Smith
Marty Smith (November 26, 1956 – April 27, 2020) was an American professional motocross racer. He competed in the AMA Motocross Championships from 1974 to 1981, most prominently as a member of the Honda factory racing team with whom he won t ...
, ''Horse with Hat''. Victoria University Press
* 2013 –
Helen Heath
Helen Heath (born 1970) is a poet from New Zealand.
Background
Heath is based in Wellington, New Zealand. She received her MA and PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, at the Victoria University of Wellin ...
, ''Graft''. Victoria University Press
* 2012 –
John Adams
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Befor ...
, ''Briefcase''. Auckland University Press
* 2011 –
Lynn Jenner
Lynn Jenner is a poet and essayist from New Zealand.
Background
Jenner was born in Hāwera, Taranaki. She worked as an educational psychologist and counsellor until 2003. She began studying writing at Whitireia Polytechnic and completed an M ...
, ''Dear Sweet Harry''. Auckland University Press
* 2010 –
Selina Tusitala Marsh
Selina Tusitala Marsh (born 21 April 1971) is a New Zealand poet and academic, and was the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2017–2019.
Early life
Marsh was born in 1971 in Auckland, New Zealand. Through her mother, Sailigi Tusitala, Marsh is o ...
, ''Fast Talking PI''. Auckland University Press
* 2009 –
Sam Sampson, ''Everything Talks''. Auckland University Press
* 2008 –
Jessica Le Bas
Jessica Le Bas is a Nelson-based poet from New Zealand.
Background
Le Bas received her MA(Hons) from the University of Auckland.
Career
During the Balkan Wars, Le Bas worked for the United Nations as a Training Consultant for UNPROFOR. She ...
, ''Incognito''. Auckland University Press
* 2007 –
Airini Beautrais
Airini Jane Beautrais (born 1982) is a poet and short-story writer from New Zealand.
Background
Beautrais was born in 1982 and grew up in Auckland and Whanganui. She studied creative writing and ecological science at the Victoria University o ...
, ''Secret Heart''. Victoria University Press
* 2006 –
Karlo Mila
Karlo Estelle Mila (born 1974) is a New Zealand writer and poet of Tongan, Pālagi and Samoan descent. Her first collection, ''Dream Fish Floating'', received the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2006 at the Montana Ne ...
, ''Dream Fish Floating''. Huia Publishers
* 2005 –
Sonja Yelich
Sonja Yelich (; born 1965) is a New Zealand poet. She is the mother of pop singer Lorde.
Early life
Sonja Yelich () was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1965, into an immigrant family from the region of Dalmatia. She studied literature at th ...
, ''Clung''. Auckland University Press
* 2004 –
Cliff Fell, ''The Adulterer's Bible''. Victoria University Press
* 2003 –
Kay McKenzie Cooke
Kay McKenzie Cooke (born 1953) is a poet from New Zealand.
Background
Cooke was born in 1953 in Tuatapere, Southland, New Zealand. She is of Kai Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, English, Scottish, and Irish descent. She attended the Dunedin Teachers' Co ...
, ''Feeding the Dogs, Kay McKenzie Cooke''. University of Otago Press
* 2002 –
Chris Price, ''Husk''. Auckland University Press
* 2001 –
Stephanie de Montalk
Stephanie de Montalk (born 1945) is a poet and biographer from New Zealand.
Background
Born in 1945, in New Zealand, de Montalk grew up in the Far North and Wellington. She trained at Wellington Hospital School of Nursing and received and M ...
, ''Animals Indoors''. Victoria University Press
* 2000 –
Glenn Colquhoun
Dr. Glenn Colquhoun (born 1964) is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.
Life
Colquhoun was born in Papakura, Auckland, and practices medicine on the Kapiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive.
Colquhoun's firs ...
, ''The Art of Walking Upright''. Steele Roberts
* 1999 –
Kate Camp
Kate Camp (born 1972) is a New Zealand poet and author who currently resides in Wellington.
Early life and education
Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She has a BA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington.
Career ...
, ''Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars''. Victoria University Press
* 1998 –
Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova (born in November 1973, in Bulgarian Капка Касабова) is a poet and writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. Her mother tongue is Bulgarian, but she writes in English.
Life
Kapka Kassabova was born and grew up in S ...
, ''All Roads Lead to the Sea''. Auckland University Press
* 1997 –
Diane Brown
Diane Edith Brown (born 1951) is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.
Background
Brown was born in 1951. She is based in Dunedin.
Career
Brown has published several novels and poetry collections including:
* ''Before The Divorce We Go T ...
, ''Before the Divorce We Go To Disneyland''. Tandem Press
* 1996 – James Brown, ''Go Round Power Please''. Victoria University Press
General non-fiction
General non-fiction award
Since 2020, the top prize for general non-fiction has been the General Non-Fiction Award. Between 2016 and 2019, this award was known as the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award. Between 2010 and 2015, this award was known as the General Non-Fiction Prize. Between 1998 and 2009, the top prize for non-fiction was the Montana Medal for Non-Fiction. There was no top prize for general non-fiction in 1996 or 1997.
* 2022 –
Vincent O'Malley
Vincent Michael O’Malley MRSNZ FRHistS is a New Zealand historian whose work focuses on the history of how relationships between Māori, European settlers (Pākehā) and colonial governments shapes the development of New Zealand as a nation ...
, ''Voices from the New Zealand Wars , He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa''. Bridget Williams Books
* 2021 –
Vincent O'Sullivan, ''The Dark is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere: A Biographical Portrait''.
Penguin
Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...
* 2020 –
Shayne Carter
Shayne P. Carter is a New Zealand musician best known for leading Straitjacket Fits from 1986 to 1994, and as the only permanent member of Dimmer (1995–2012).
Carter is a member of the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, and has been awarded the ...
, ''Dead People I Have Known''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2019 –
Joanne Drayton
Joanne Drayton is a New Zealand art historian, biographer and nonfiction writer.
Drayton graduated from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch in 1998 with a PhD on "Edith Collier: Her life and work (1885–1964)". She adapted her thesis f ...
, ''Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love''.
Otago University Press
Otago University Press is an academic publisher associated with the University of Otago. The press is located in Dunedin, New Zealand. The Otago University Press is the oldest academic publisher in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Otago University Press ...
* 2018 –
Diana Wichtel
Diana Wichtel (born 1950 in Vancouver) is a New Zealand writer and critic. Her mother, Patricia, was a New Zealander; her father, Benjamin Wichtel, a Polish Jew who escaped from the Nazi train taking his family to the Treblinka extermination cam ...
, ''Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father''.
Awa Press
* 2017 –
Ashleigh Young
Ashleigh Young (born 1983) is a poet, essayist, editor and creative writing teacher. She received the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2017 for her second book, a collection of personal essays titled ''Can You Tolerate This?'' which also won ...
, ''Can You Tolerate This?'' Victoria University Press
* 2016 –
Witi Ihimaera
Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler (; born 7 February 1944) is a New Zealand author. Raised in the small town of Waituhi, he decided to become a writer as a teenager after being convinced that Māori people were ignored or mischaracterised in literat ...
, ''Māori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors
* 2014 –
Jill Trevelyan
Jill Trevelyan (born 1963) is a New Zealand art curator, reviewer, and author who specialises in 20th century New Zealand art. Her publications include the collected letters of New Zealand painter Toss Woollaston and a biography of New Zealand art ...
, ''Peter McLeavey: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer''.
Te Papa Press
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. ''Te Papa Tongarewa'' translates literally to "container of treasures" or in full "container of treasured things and people that spring f ...
* 2013 –
Steve Braunias, ''Civilisation: Twenty Places on the Edge of the World''. Awa Press
* 2012 –
Joan Druett
Joan Druett is a New Zealand historian and novelist, specialising in maritime history and crime fiction.
Life
Joan Druett was born in Nelson, and raised in Palmerston North, moving to New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, when she was 16. S ...
, ''Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator''.
Random House NZ
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...
* 2011 –
Chris Bourke
Christopher John Bourke is an Australian politician, a Labor member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Ginninderra from 2011 to 2016. He was the first Indigenous Australian elected to the A ...
, ''Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
* 2010 –
Judith Binney
Dame Judith Mary Caroline Binney (née Musgrove, 1 July 1940 – 15 February 2011) was a New Zealand historian, writer and Emerita Professor of History at the University of Auckland. Her work focussed on religion in New Zealand, especially ...
, ''Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820–1921''.
Bridget Williams Books
* 2009 –
Jill Trevelyan
Jill Trevelyan (born 1963) is a New Zealand art curator, reviewer, and author who specialises in 20th century New Zealand art. Her publications include the collected letters of New Zealand painter Toss Woollaston and a biography of New Zealand art ...
, ''Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life''. Te Papa Press
* 2008 –
Janet Hunt
Janet may refer to:
Names
* Janet (given name)
* Janet (French singer) (1939–2011)
Surname
* Charles Janet (1849–1932), French engineer, inventor and biologist, known for the Left Step periodic table
* Jules Janet (1861–1945), French psych ...
, ''Wetlands of New Zealand''. Random House NZ
* 2007 –
Audrey Eagle
Audrey Lily Eagle (née Brodey; 30 October 1925 – 27 November 2022) was a New Zealand botanical illustrator, whose work mainly focused on New Zealand's distinctive trees and shrubs. As the author and illustrator of the two volume ''Eagle's ...
, ''Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand''. Te Papa Press
* 2006 –
Philip Simpson, ''Pōhutukawa & Rātā: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees''. Te Papa Press
* 2005 –
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, ''At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design''. Godwit Press
* 2004 –
Anne Salmond
Dame Mary Anne Salmond (née Thorpe; born 16 November 1945) is a New Zealand anthropologist, environmentalist and writer. She was New Zealander of the Year in 2013. In 2020, she was appointed to the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour ...
, ''The Trial of the Cannibal Dog''.
Allen Lane
Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fictio ...
/
Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2003 – Michael Cooper, ''Wine Atlas of New Zealand''.
Hodder Moa Beckett
Hodder is an English surname, derived from the Old English word "hod", meaning hood.
People
* Christopher Hodder-Williams (1926–1995), British writer
*Francis Hodder (1906–1943), Irish cricketer, rugby union player and Royal Air Force officer
...
* 2002 –
Lynley Hood, ''A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case''.
Longacre Press
* 2001 –
Michael King, ''Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame''.
Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquire ...
* 2000 –
Grahame Sydney
Sir Grahame Charles Sydney (born 1948) is a New Zealand visual artist, based in the South Island region of Central Otago. Since beginning his professional art life in 1974 he has worked as a painter (in egg tempera, oil and watercolour), prin ...
, ''The Art of Grahame Sydney''. Longacre Press
* 1999 –
Heather Nicholson, ''The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand''. Auckland University Press
* 1998 –
Harry Orsman
Harry may refer to:
TV shows
* ''Harry'' (American TV series), a 1987 American comedy series starring Alan Arkin
* ''Harry'' (British TV series), a 1993 BBC drama that ran for two seasons
* ''Harry'' (talk show), a 2016 American daytime talk show ...
, ''Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles''. Oxford University Press
Best first book award (general non-fiction)
Since 2019, this award has been known as the MitoQ Best First Book Awards: E H McCormick Prize for General Non-Fiction. Between 2015 and 2018, this award was known as the E H McCormick Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction. From 1997 to 2014, this award was known as the NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction Prize. In 1996, this award was known as the Best First Book Award, Non-Fiction. The award is named for New Zealand historian and biographer
Eric Hall McCormick
Eric Hall McCormick (17 June 1906 – 23 March 1995) was a New Zealand teacher, critic, historian, university lecturer and biographer.
Life and career
McCormick was born in Taihape, Wanganui. He attended Wellington College, Wellington, as a Boa ...
.
* 2022 –
Dave Lowe, ''The Alarmist: Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change''. Te Herenga Waka University Press
* 2021 –
Madison Hamill, ''Specimen: Personal Essays''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
* 2020 –
Shayne Carter
Shayne P. Carter is a New Zealand musician best known for leading Straitjacket Fits from 1986 to 1994, and as the only permanent member of Dimmer (1995–2012).
Carter is a member of the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, and has been awarded the ...
, ''Dead People I Have Known''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2019 –
Chessie Henry
Chessie may refer to:
*Chessie (sea monster), a legendary monster supposedly living in Chesapeake Bay, US
*Chessie System, a former holding company of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O)
*Chessie (mascot), a kitten mascot of the C&O
* ''Chessie' ...
, ''We Can Make a Life''. Victoria University Press
* 2018 –
Diana Wichtel
Diana Wichtel (born 1950 in Vancouver) is a New Zealand writer and critic. Her mother, Patricia, was a New Zealander; her father, Benjamin Wichtel, a Polish Jew who escaped from the Nazi train taking his family to the Treblinka extermination cam ...
, ''Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father''.
Awa Press
* 2017 –
Adam Dudding
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...
, ''My Father’s Island''. Victoria University Press
* 2016 –
Melissa Matutina Williams, ''Panguru and the City, Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua: An Urban Migration History''.
Bridget Williams Books
* 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors
* 2014 –
Rebecca Macfie, ''Tragedy at Pike River Mine''. Awa Press
* 2013 –
Quinn Berentson, ''Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand’s Legendary Bird''.
Craig Potton Publishing
* 2012 –
Michael Smythe, ''New Zealand by Design''.
Random House NZ
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...
* 2011 –
Poia Rewi
Poia Rewi is a professor and the head of Te Tumu: School of Maori, Pacific, and Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is known for his work in the areas of the revitalisation of the Māori language and (Māori ...
, ''Whaikōrero: The World of Māori Oratory''. Auckland University Press
* 2010 –
Pip Desmond
Pip Desmond is a New Zealand author and journalist.
Desmond attending St Mary's College in Wellington. Desmond graduated in 2006 from the International Institute of Modern Letters at the Victoria University of Wellington with an MA in Creative ...
, ''Trust: A True Story of Women & Gangs''. Random House NZ
* 2009 –
Chris Brickell
Chris is a short form of various names including Christopher, Christian, Christina, Christine, and Christos. Chris is also used as a name in its own right, however it is not as common.
People with the given name
*Chris Abani (born 1966), Nige ...
, ''Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand''.
Godwit Press
Godwit Press is a New Zealand publisher of non-fiction works, mainly of New Zealand arts, literature, and natural history. Initially founded in Auckland in 1989, the company was taken over by Random House New Zealand in 2000 and has since been its ...
* 2008 –
Alan Clarke
Alan John Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer.
Life and career
Clarke was born in Wallasey, Wirral, England.
Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, ...
, ''The Great Sacred Forest of Tane''.
Raupo Publishing
Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd (formerly A. H. Reed Ltd and A. H. and A. W. Reed Ltd) was one of the leading publishers in New Zealand. It was founded by Alfred Hamish Reed and his wife Isabel in 1907. Reed's nephew Alexander Wyclif Reed joined the fi ...
* 2007 –
William Cottrell, ''Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History 1830–1900''. Reed Publishing
* 2006 –
Patrick Snedden Patrick may refer to:
*Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name
*Patrick (surname), list of people with this name
People
*Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint
*Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick or ...
, ''Pakeha and the Treaty: Why It's Our Treaty Too''. Random House NZ
* 2005 –
Douglas Wright, ''Ghost Dance''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2004 –
Deidre Brown, ''Tai Tokerau Whakairo Rakau: Northland Maori Wood Carving''. Reed Publishing
* 2003 –
Sam Mahon
Sam Mahon (born ) is an artist and author living in Waikari in North Canterbury in the South Island of New Zealand. He is the son of Peter Mahon, a lawyer notable for the Mt Erebus disaster inquiry.
Works
Sam Mahon has become involved with p ...
, ''Year of the Horse''. Longacre Press
* 2002 –
Steve Braunias, ''Fool's Paradise''. Random House
* 2001 –
Paul Tapsell, ''Pukaki: A Comet Returns''. Reed Publishing
* 2000 –
Peter Thomson Peter Thomson may refer to:
* Peter Thomson (golfer) (1929–2018), Australian golfer
* Peter Thomson (diplomat) (born 1948), Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
* Peter Thomson (footballer) (born 1977), English footballer
* Peter ...
, ''Kava in the Blood''. Tandem Press
* 1999 –
Helen Schamroth, ''100 New Zealand Craft Artists''. Godwit Press
* 1998 –
Genevieve Noser, ''Olives: the New Passion''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 1997 –
Jessie Munro, ''The Story of Suzanne Aubert''. Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books
* 1996 –
Alex Frame, ''Salmond: Southern Jurist''. Victoria University Press
Illustrated non-fiction
Illustrated non-fiction award
Since 2004, this award has been known as the Illustrated Non-Fiction Award. From 1996 to 2003, this award was known as the Illustrative Arts Award.
* 2022 –
Claire Regnault, ''Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910''.
Te Papa Press
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. ''Te Papa Tongarewa'' translates literally to "container of treasures" or in full "container of treasured things and people that spring f ...
* 2021 –
Monique Fiso
Monique Tumema Fiso (born October 23, 1987) is a New Zealand-Samoan chef and author known for her contribution to the revival of Māori people, Māori and Polynesian culture, Polynesian cuisine.
Early life
Monique Fiso was born in Wellington, N ...
, ''Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine''.
Godwit Press
Godwit Press is a New Zealand publisher of non-fiction works, mainly of New Zealand arts, literature, and natural history. Initially founded in Auckland in 1989, the company was taken over by Random House New Zealand in 2000 and has since been its ...
* 2020 – edited by
Stephanie Gibson
Stephanie Gibson is a New Zealand writer and museum curator.
Biography
Gibson was part of the team which re-developed the Museum of Wellington City and Sea. She was also the first collection manager of the Adam Art Gallery
Adam; el, Ἀ ...
,
Matariki Williams and
Puawai Cairns, ''Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance''.
Te Papa Press
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. ''Te Papa Tongarewa'' translates literally to "container of treasures" or in full "container of treasured things and people that spring f ...
* 2019 –
Sean Mallon and
Sébastien Galliot, ''Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing''. Te Papa Press
* 2018 –
Alison Jones
Barbara Alison Jones is a New Zealand academic who works in the field of sociology of education. She is the great-great-great granddaughter of Andrew Buchanan, New Zealand politician 1862–1874; great-great granddaughter of William Baldwin Ne ...
and
Kuni Kaa Jenkins, ''Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds''.
Bridget Williams Books
* 2017 –
Barbara Brookes
Barbara Lesley Brookes (born 1955) is a New Zealand historian and academic. She specialises in women's history and medical history. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2022.
Biography
Brookes completed a bachelor's ...
, ''A History of New Zealand Women''. Bridget Williams Books
* 2016 –
Atholl Anderson
Atholl John Anderson (born 1943) is a New Zealand archaeologist who has worked extensively in New Zealand and the Pacific. His work is notable for its syntheses of history, biology, ethnography and archaeological evidence. He made a major contr ...
,
Judith Binney
Dame Judith Mary Caroline Binney (née Musgrove, 1 July 1940 – 15 February 2011) was a New Zealand historian, writer and Emerita Professor of History at the University of Auckland. Her work focussed on religion in New Zealand, especially ...
and
Aroha Harris, ''Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History''. Bridget Williams Books
* 2015 – no award due to change of sponsors
* 2014 –
Bruce Ansley
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been ...
&
Jane Ussher
Philippa Jane Ussher (born 1953) is one of New Zealand's foremost documentary and portrait photographers. She joined the ''New Zealand Listener'' in 1977 and was chief photographer for 29 years, leaving to take up a career as a freelance photogra ...
, ''Coast: A New Zealand Journey''. Godwit Press
* 2013 –
Gregory O'Brien
Gregory Leo O’Brien (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.
Life
Born in Matamata in 1961, O'Brien trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckl ...
&
Gil Hanly
Gillian Mary Hanly ( Taverner; born 1934) is a New Zealand artist. She is best known for documenting protests and social movements in New Zealand's recent history.
Early life
Hanly was born in 1934 in Levin, New Zealand. She has two younge ...
, ''Pat Hanly''.
Ron Sang
Ronald Fong Sang (11 July 1938 – 11 June 2021) was a New Zealand architect, art collector, art exhibitor and publisher of New Zealand art books.
Early life
Sang was born in Fiji in 1938 to parents who had migrated from southern China. He rece ...
Publications
* 2012 –
John Dawson and
Rob Lucas
Robert Ivan Lucas (born 7 June 1953) is a former Australian politician and a former member of the South Australian Legislative Council between the 1982 election and the 2022 election, representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal ...
, ''New Zealand's Native Trees''.
Craig Potton Publishing
* 2011 –
Damian Skinner, ''The Passing World: The Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai''.
Rim Books
* 2010 – Al Brown, ''Go Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast''. Random House NZ
* 2009 –
Len Castle
Leonard Ramsay Castle (23 December 1924 – 29 September 2011) was a New Zealand Pottery, potter.
Early life and family
Born in Auckland on 23 December 1924, Castle was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School. He went on to study at Univer ...
, ''Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance''.
Lopdell House Gallery
* 2008 –
Jennifer Hay
Jennifer Bohun Hay is a New Zealand linguist who specialises in sociolinguistics, laboratory phonology, and the history of New Zealand English. As of 2020 she is a full professor at the University of Canterbury.
Academic career
In 2000, Ha ...
, with
Ron Brownson,
Chris Knox
Chris Knox (born 2 September 1952) is a New Zealand rock and roll musician, cartoonist and movie reviewer who emerged during the punk rock era with his bands The Enemy and Toy Love. After Toy Love disbanded in the early 1980s, he formed the g ...
, and
Laurence Aberhart
Laurence Geoffrey Aberhart (born 1949) is a New Zealand photographer.
Biography
Aberhart was born in Nelson in 1949, along with three siblings, and was educated at Nelson College from 1963 to 1966.''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–200 ...
; designed by
Aaron Beehre, ''Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle Morning''.
Christchurch Art Gallery
The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, commonly known as the Christchurch Art Gallery, is the public art gallery of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. It has its own substantial art collection and also presents a programme of New ...
* 2007 –
Audrey Eagle
Audrey Lily Eagle (née Brodey; 30 October 1925 – 27 November 2022) was a New Zealand botanical illustrator, whose work mainly focused on New Zealand's distinctive trees and shrubs. As the author and illustrator of the two volume ''Eagle's ...
, ''Eagles Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand''. Te Papa Press
* 2006 – Edited by
Hannah Holm &
Lara Strongman
Lara Strongman is a curator, writer and art historian from New Zealand.
Biography
Strongman studied art history at the University of Canterbury, graduating with a master of art's degree in 1991, with a thesis on Tony Fomison. In 2013 she compl ...
, ''Contemporary New Zealand Photographers''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2005 –
Luit Bieringa, ''Handboek: Ans Westra Photographs''. BWX
* 2004 –
Arno Gasteiger, ''Central''.
Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquire ...
* 2003 –
Nancy Pel &
Len Castle
Leonard Ramsay Castle (23 December 1924 – 29 September 2011) was a New Zealand Pottery, potter.
Early life and family
Born in Auckland on 23 December 1924, Castle was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School. He went on to study at Univer ...
, ''Len Castle: Potter''. Ron Sang Publications
* 2002 –
Joan Whincup &
Tony Whincup
Tony may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Tony (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Gregory Tony (born 1978), American law enforcement officer
* Motu Tony (born 1981), New Zealand international rugby leag ...
with
Julia Parkinson
Julia is usually a feminine given name. It is a Latinate feminine form of the name Julio and Julius. (For further details on etymology, see the Wiktionary entry "Julius".) The given name ''Julia'' had been in use throughout Late Antiquity (e.g. ...
(designer), ''Akekeia! Traditional Dance in Kiribati''.
Susan Barrie
* 2001 – Edited by
Ian Wedde
Ian Curtis Wedde (born 17 October 1946) is a New Zealand poet, fiction writer, critic, and art curator.
Biography
Born in Blenheim, New Zealand, Wedde lived in East Pakistan and England as a child before returning to New Zealand. He attended ...
, ''Ralph Hotere: Black Light''. Te Papa Press &
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
The Dunedin Public Art Gallery holds the main public art collection of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located in The Octagon in the heart of the city, it is close to the city's public library, Dunedin Town Hall, and other facilities such as t ...
* 2000 –
Grahame Sydney
Sir Grahame Charles Sydney (born 1948) is a New Zealand visual artist, based in the South Island region of Central Otago. Since beginning his professional art life in 1974 he has worked as a painter (in egg tempera, oil and watercolour), prin ...
, ''The Art of Grahame Sydney''. Longacre Press
* 1999 –
Helen Schamroth, ''100 New Zealand Craft Artists''. Godwit Press
* 1998 –
Roger Blackley, ''Goldie''. David Bateman
* 1997 – edited by Sandy Adsett, Cliff Whiting and Witi Ihimaera, ''Mataora: The Living Face: Contemporary Maori Art''. David Bateman
* 1996 – Winsome Shepherd, ''Gold and Silversmithing in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century New Zealand''. Museum of New Zealand
Best first book award (illustrated non-fiction)
Since 2020, this award has been the MitoQ Best First Book Awards: Judith Binney Prize for Illustrated Non-Fiction. From 2016 to 2019, this award was known as the Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction. The award is named after the New Zealand historian
Judith Binney
Dame Judith Mary Caroline Binney (née Musgrove, 1 July 1940 – 15 February 2011) was a New Zealand historian, writer and Emerita Professor of History at the University of Auckland. Her work focussed on religion in New Zealand, especially ...
.
* 2022 –
Bridget Hackshaw, ''The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble''.
Massey University Press
Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany, New Zealand, Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 stud ...
* 2021 –
Monique Fiso
Monique Tumema Fiso (born October 23, 1987) is a New Zealand-Samoan chef and author known for her contribution to the revival of Māori people, Māori and Polynesian culture, Polynesian cuisine.
Early life
Monique Fiso was born in Wellington, N ...
, ''Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine''.
Godwit Press
Godwit Press is a New Zealand publisher of non-fiction works, mainly of New Zealand arts, literature, and natural history. Initially founded in Auckland in 1989, the company was taken over by Random House New Zealand in 2000 and has since been its ...
* 2020 –
Chris McDowall and
Tim Denee, ''We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa''.
Massey University Press
Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany, New Zealand, Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 stud ...
* 2019 –
John Reid, ''Whatever it Takes: Pacific Films and John O’Shea 1948–2000''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2018 –
Marcus Thomas and
Neil Silverwood, ''Caves: Exploring New Zealand’s Subterranean Wilderness''.
Whio Publishing
* 2017 –
Ngarino Ellis, ''A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngāti Porou Carving, 1830–1930''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
* 2016 –
Richard Nunns
Richard Anthony Nunns (7 December 1945 – 7 June 2021) was a Māori traditional instrumentalist of Pākehā heritage. He was particularly known for playing taonga pūoro and his collaboration with fellow Māori instrumentalist Hirini Melbourn ...
with
Allan Thomas, ''Te Ara Puoro: A Journey into the World of Māori Music''.
Potton & Burton
Potton & Burton, formerly Craig Potton Publishing, is a book publishing company based in Nelson, New Zealand, and is one of the largest independent book publishers in New Zealand.
History
Potton & Burton was first established in 1987 as Craig P ...
Māori Language Award
Books that meet the general criteria of the fiction, non-fiction and poetry awards and are written wholly and originally in te reo Māori are eligible for Te Mūrau o te Tuhi – Māori Language Award. This award is made at the discretion of a specially appointed judge.
Prior to 2019, Māori language awards were presented in 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2013.
* 2021 –
Tīmoti Kāretu
Sir Tīmoti Samuel Kāretu (born 29 April 1937) is a New Zealand academic of Māori language and performing arts. He served as the inaugural head of the Department of Māori at the University of Waikato, and rose to the rank of professor. He w ...
, ''Mātāmua ko te Kupu!''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
*2019 –
Tīmoti Kāretu
Sir Tīmoti Samuel Kāretu (born 29 April 1937) is a New Zealand academic of Māori language and performing arts. He served as the inaugural head of the Department of Māori at the University of Waikato, and rose to the rank of professor. He w ...
and
Wharehuia Milroy
James Te Wharehuia Milroy (24 July 1937 – 7 May 2019) was a New Zealand academic and expert in the Māori language. He was of Ngāi Tūhoe descent. Together with Tīmoti Kāretu and Pou Temara, Milroy was a lecturer at Te Panekiretanga o te ...
, ''He Kupu Tuku Iho: Ko te Reo Māori te Tatau ki te Ao''. Auckland University Press
* 2013 –
Dame Kāterina Te Heikōkō Mataira, ''Ngā Waituhi o Rēhua''.
Huia Publishers
Huia Publishers (HUIA) is a book publishing company based in Wellington, New Zealand established in 1991. HUIA publish material in Māori language and English for adults and children.
HUIA was founded by Robyn Rangihuia Bargh (CNZM) and her ...
* 2012 –
Chris Winitana, ''Tōku Reo, Tōku Ohooho : My Language, My Inspiration''. Huia Publishers
* 2009 –
Maori Language Commission, ''He Pātaka Kupu: Te Kai a te rangatira''.
Raupo Press
* 2008 – Edited by
Huriana Raven and
Piripi Walker, ''Te Tū a Te Toka: He Ieretanga nō ngā Tai e Whā''.
Totika Publishers and
Toi Māori Aotearoa
Toi Māori Aotearoa (English: Māori Arts New Zealand) is a charitable trust that promotes Māori traditional arts and Māori artists, both in New Zealand and overseas.
Much of Toi Māori's funding comes indirectly from the government, through C ...
Discontinued awards
Top awards
Book of the year
There have been a number of "book of the year" awards in the history of the awards. The New Zealand Post Book of the Year was presented between 2010 and 2014, when New Zealand Post was the sponsor of the awards ceremony. The Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry was presented in 2008 and 2009. The Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry was presented between 1998 and 2007. The Book of the Year/Cultural Heritage Award was presented in 1996 and 1997.
* 2014 –
Jill Trevelyan
Jill Trevelyan (born 1963) is a New Zealand art curator, reviewer, and author who specialises in 20th century New Zealand art. Her publications include the collected letters of New Zealand painter Toss Woollaston and a biography of New Zealand art ...
, ''
Peter McLeavey
Peter Joseph John McLeavey (21 September 1936 – 12 November 2015) was a New Zealand art dealer and advocate based in Wellington.
Early life
Born in Raetihi on 21 September 1936, McLeavey was the son of Leslie Francis McLeavey and Elizabeth Th ...
: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer''.
Te Papa Press
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. ''Te Papa Tongarewa'' translates literally to "container of treasures" or in full "container of treasured things and people that spring f ...
* 2013 –
Kirsty Gunn
Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist and writer of short stories.
Her stories include "Rain", which led to the 2001 film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs and also the 2001 ballet by the Rosas Company, set to "Music ...
, ''The Big Music''.
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...
* 2012 –
John Dawson and
Rob Lucas
Robert Ivan Lucas (born 7 June 1953) is a former Australian politician and a former member of the South Australian Legislative Council between the 1982 election and the 2022 election, representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal ...
, ''New Zealand's Native Trees''.
Craig Potton Publishing
* 2011 –
Chris Bourke
Christopher John Bourke is an Australian politician, a Labor member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Ginninderra from 2011 to 2016. He was the first Indigenous Australian elected to the A ...
, ''
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964''. Auckland University Press
* 2010 –
Judith Binney
Dame Judith Mary Caroline Binney (née Musgrove, 1 July 1940 – 15 February 2011) was a New Zealand historian, writer and Emerita Professor of History at the University of Auckland. Her work focussed on religion in New Zealand, especially ...
, ''Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820–1921''. Bridget Williams Books
* 2009 –
Emily Perkins
Emily Jean Perkins (born May 4, 1977) is a Canadian former actress, best known for her roles as Crystal Braywood in the TV series ''Hiccups'', young Beverly Marsh in '' Stephen King's It'', and Brigitte Fitzgerald in ''Ginger Snaps''. Since the l ...
, ''A Novel About My Wife''.
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions.
Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
* 2008 –
Charlotte Grimshaw
Charlotte Grimshaw (born December 1966) is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, columnist and former lawyer. Since the publication of her debut novel ''Provocation'' (1999), she has received a number of significant literary awards incl ...
, ''Opportunity''. Random House NZ
* 2007 –
Lloyd Jones Lloyd Jones or Lloyd-Jones may refer to:
People Sports
* Lloyd Jones (athlete) (1884–1971), American athlete in the 1908 Summer Olympics
*Lloyd Jones (figure skater) (born 1988), Welsh ice dancer
*Lloyd Jones (English footballer) (born 1995), En ...
, ''
Mister Pip''. Penguin
* 2006 –
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand an ...
, ''Blindsight''. Penguin
* 2005 –
Patricia Grace
Patricia Frances Grace (; born 17 August 1937) is a New Zealand Māori writer of novels, short stories, and children's books. She began writing as a young adult, while working as a teacher. Her early short stories were published in magazines ...
, ''Tu''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2004 –
Annamarie Jagose, ''
Slow Water''. Victoria University Press
* 2003 –
Stephanie Johnson, ''The Shag Incident''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2002 –
Craig Marriner
Craig Marriner (born 1974) is a novelist from Rotorua, New Zealand. He is best known for his award-winning first novel ''Stonedogs'' (2001).
Early life
Marriner was born in Rotorua and had what he describes as a "strictly working-class backgrou ...
, ''
Stonedogs
''Stonedogs'' is the first novel by New Zealand writer Craig Marriner. It was published in 2001 and has won a Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Montana New Zealand Book Award. The book has been described as "a kind of ''A Clockwork Orange (novel), ...
''. Vintage Books
* 2001 –
Lloyd Jones Lloyd Jones or Lloyd-Jones may refer to:
People Sports
* Lloyd Jones (athlete) (1884–1971), American athlete in the 1908 Summer Olympics
*Lloyd Jones (figure skater) (born 1988), Welsh ice dancer
*Lloyd Jones (English footballer) (born 1995), En ...
, ''The Book of Fame''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2000 –
Owen Marshall
Owen Marshall Jones (born 17 August 1941, Te Kuiti, New Zealand), who writes under the pen name Owen Marshall, is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. The third son of a Methodist minister younger brother of Allan Jones, and older br ...
, ''Harlequin Rex''. Vintage
* 1999 –
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Fiona Knox (born 15 February 1959) is a New Zealand writer. She has authored several novels for both adults and teenagers, autobiographical novellas, and a collection of essays. One of her best-known works is ''The Vintner's Luck'' ( ...
, ''
The Vintner's Luck
''The Vintner's Luck'' is a romantic fantasy novel by New Zealand author Elizabeth Knox, first published in 1998. It was her fourth full-length novel, and her first book published outside New Zealand. The novel charts the relationship between a ...
''. Victoria University Press
* 1998 –
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand an ...
, ''Live Bodies''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 1997 –
Jessie Munro, ''The Story of
Suzanne Aubert
Suzanne Aubert (19 June 1835 – 1 October 1926), better known to many by her cleric name Sister Mary Joseph or Mother Aubert, was a Catholic sister who started a home for orphans and the under-privileged in Jerusalem, New Zealand on the Whangan ...
''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
/
Bridget Williams Books
* 1996 –
Judith Binney
Dame Judith Mary Caroline Binney (née Musgrove, 1 July 1940 – 15 February 2011) was a New Zealand historian, writer and Emerita Professor of History at the University of Auckland. Her work focussed on religion in New Zealand, especially ...
, ''Redemption Songs – A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki''. Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books
People's choice award
The People's Choice Award was presented from 2010 to 2014. Before 2010, this award was known as the Readers' Choice Award. There were no people's choice awards in 1996 or 1997.
* 2014 –
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton (born 24 September 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch. She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International In ...
, ''
The Luminaries
''The Luminaries'' is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields. Instead ...
''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2013 –
Jarrod Gilbert, ''Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
* 2012 –
Sue Orr, ''From Under the Overcoat''. Vintage,
Random House NZ
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...
* 2011 –
Chris Bourke
Christopher John Bourke is an Australian politician, a Labor member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Ginninderra from 2011 to 2016. He was the first Indigenous Australian elected to the A ...
, ''Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964''. Auckland University Press
* 2010 – Al Brown, ''Go Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast''. Random House NZ
* 2009 –
Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi (born 1959) is a New Zealand novelist, children's writer and short story writer. Her early work was published under the pseudonym Kate Flannery.
Early life
De Goldi was born in Christchurch in 1959. She is of mixed Irish and Italia ...
, ''The 10 pm Question''.
Longacre Press
* 2008 –
Mary McCallum
Mary McCallum (born 1961) is a publisher, author and journalist from New Zealand.
Background
Mary McCallum was born in 1961 in Lusaka, Zambia. Aged four, she moved to New Zealand and was educated in Wellington and the United Kingdom, includ ...
, ''The Blue''.
Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2007 –
Lloyd Jones Lloyd Jones or Lloyd-Jones may refer to:
People Sports
* Lloyd Jones (athlete) (1884–1971), American athlete in the 1908 Summer Olympics
*Lloyd Jones (figure skater) (born 1988), Welsh ice dancer
*Lloyd Jones (English footballer) (born 1995), En ...
, ''Mister Pip''. Penguin
* 2006 (joint) –
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand an ...
, ''Blindsight''. Penguin
* 2006 (joint) –
Fiona Kidman
Dame Fiona Judith Kidman ( Eakin, born 26 March 1940) is a New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story writer. She grew up in Northland, and worked as a librarian and a freelance journalist early in her career. She began writing ...
, ''The Captive Wife''. Vintage
* 2005 –
Julie Le Clerc
Julie Le Clerc is a New Zealand food writer, chef, caterer, restaurateur and a presenter on TV food shows.
Biography
Le Clerc grew up in the Auckland suburb of Westmere. Her mother Loraine made and iced wedding cakes as a cottage industry, and ...
and
John Bougen, ''Made in Morocco: A Journey of Exotic Tastes and Places''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2004 –
Michael King, ''The Penguin History of New Zealand''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2003 –
Glenn Colquhoun
Dr. Glenn Colquhoun (born 1964) is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner.
Life
Colquhoun was born in Papakura, Auckland, and practices medicine on the Kapiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach with his young daughter Olive.
Colquhoun's firs ...
, ''Playing God''. Steele Roberts
* 2002 –
Lynley Hood, ''A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case''. Longacre Press
* 2001 –
Michael King, ''Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame''. Viking Press
* 2000 –
Grahame Sydney
Sir Grahame Charles Sydney (born 1948) is a New Zealand visual artist, based in the South Island region of Central Otago. Since beginning his professional art life in 1974 he has worked as a painter (in egg tempera, oil and watercolour), prin ...
, ''The Art of Grahame Sydney''. Longacre Press
* 1999 –
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Fiona Knox (born 15 February 1959) is a New Zealand writer. She has authored several novels for both adults and teenagers, autobiographical novellas, and a collection of essays. One of her best-known works is ''The Vintner's Luck'' ( ...
, ''The Vintner's Luck''. Victoria University Press
* 1998 – Edited by
Malcolm McKinnon, ''New Zealand Historical Atlas''. David Bateman
Booksellers' choice award
The Nielsen Booksellers' Choice Award was only presented in 2013 and 2014.
* 2014 –
Harry Broad &
Rob Suisted
Rob or ROB may refer to:
Places
* Rob, Velike Lašče, a settlement in Slovenia
* Roberts International Airport (IATA code ROB), in Monrovia, Liberia
People
* Rob (given name), a given name or nickname, e.g., for Robert(o), Robin/Robyn
* Rob ...
, ''Molesworth: Stories from New Zealand's largest high country station''.
Craig Potton Publishing
* 2013 – Shaun Barnett,
Rob Brown & Geoff Spearpoint, ''Shelter from the Storm: The story of New Zealand's backcountry huts''. Craig Potton Publishing
Lifetime achievement award
The A W Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature Award was presented in 2004. From 2000 to 2002 this award was known as the A W Reed Lifetime Achievement Award.
* 2004 –
Joy Cowley
Cassia Joy Cowley (; born 7 August 1936) is a New Zealand author best known for her children's fiction, including the popular series of books Mrs. Wishy-Washy.
Cowley started out writing novels for adults, and her first book, ''Nest in a Fal ...
* 2002 –
Maurice Shadbolt
Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt (4 June 1932 – 10 October 2004) was a New Zealand writerRobinson and Wattie 1998 and occasional playwright.
Biography
Shadbolt was born in Auckland, and was the eldest of three children. He had a younger bro ...
* 2001 –
Dame Fiona Kidman
* 2000 –
Allen Curnow
Thomas Allen Monro Curnow (17 June 1911 – 23 September 2001) was a New Zealand poet and journalist.
Life
Curnow was born in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of a fourth generation New Zealander, an Anglican clergyman, and he grew up in a relig ...
Non-fiction category awards
History
This award ended in 2009. Before 2001, a single award was given for History and Biography.
* 2009 –
Richard Boast
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stron ...
, ''Buying the Land, Selling the Land''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2008 –
Hilary Mitchell &
John Mitchell, ''Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka Volume II: Te Ara Hou – The New Society''.
Huia Publishers
Huia Publishers (HUIA) is a book publishing company based in Wellington, New Zealand established in 1991. HUIA publish material in Māori language and English for adults and children.
HUIA was founded by Robyn Rangihuia Bargh (CNZM) and her ...
* 2007 – Edited by
K.R. Howe, ''Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors''.
David Bateman
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
* 2006 –
Rosemary McLeod
Rosemary Margaret McLeod (born December 1949) is a New Zealand writer, journalist, cartoonist and columnist.
Career
McLeod began her career as a journalist in 1970, working for The Sunday Times in Wellington before moving to Eve magazine, whe ...
, ''Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s – 1950s''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2005 –
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, ''At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design''.
Godwit Press
Godwit Press is a New Zealand publisher of non-fiction works, mainly of New Zealand arts, literature, and natural history. Initially founded in Auckland in 1989, the company was taken over by Random House New Zealand in 2000 and has since been its ...
* 2004 –
Anne Salmond
Dame Mary Anne Salmond (née Thorpe; born 16 November 1945) is a New Zealand anthropologist, environmentalist and writer. She was New Zealander of the Year in 2013. In 2020, she was appointed to the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour ...
, ''The Trial of the Cannibal Dog''.
Allen Lane
Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fictio ...
/
Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2003 –
Jim McAloon
Jim or JIM may refer to:
* Jim (given name), a given name
* Jim, a diminutive form of the given name James
* Jim, a short form of the given name Jimmy
* OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism
* ''Jim'' (comics), a series by Jim Woodring
* ''Jim' ...
, ''No Idle Rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury & Otago 1840 – 1914''.
University of Otago Press
* 2002 –
Lynley Hood, ''A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case''.
Longacre Press
* 2001 – Edited by
Te Miringa Hohaia,
Gregory O'Brien
Gregory Leo O’Brien (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.
Life
Born in Matamata in 1961, O'Brien trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckl ...
&
Lara Strongman
Lara Strongman is a curator, writer and art historian from New Zealand.
Biography
Strongman studied art history at the University of Canterbury, graduating with a master of art's degree in 1991, with a thesis on Tony Fomison. In 2013 she compl ...
, ''Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance''. City Gallery Wellington, Trustees of Parihaka Pa &
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2000 –
Chris Maclean, ''Kapiti''.
The Whitcombe Press
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...
* 1998 –
Harry Orsman
Harry may refer to:
TV shows
* ''Harry'' (American TV series), a 1987 American comedy series starring Alan Arkin
* ''Harry'' (British TV series), a 1993 BBC drama that ran for two seasons
* ''Harry'' (talk show), a 2016 American daytime talk show ...
, ''Dictionary of New Zealand English: A Dictionary of New Zealandisms on Historical Principles''.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...
Biography
This award ended in 2009. Before 2001, a single award was given for History and Biography.
* 2009 –
Jill Trevelyan
Jill Trevelyan (born 1963) is a New Zealand art curator, reviewer, and author who specialises in 20th century New Zealand art. Her publications include the collected letters of New Zealand painter Toss Woollaston and a biography of New Zealand art ...
, ''Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life''.
Te Papa Press
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. ''Te Papa Tongarewa'' translates literally to "container of treasures" or in full "container of treasured things and people that spring f ...
* 2008 –
Judy Siers Judith Shelby Siers (born 1937) is a New Zealand writer and historian. In 2008 she won a Montana New Zealand Book Award.
Biography
In 1994 Siers won a by-election and was elected a member of the Wellington City Council for the Onslow Ward, standin ...
, ''The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor''.
Millwood Heritage Productions Ltd
* 2007 –
Philip Norman, ''Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music''.
Canterbury University Press
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...
* 2006 –
Graeme Dingle, ''Dingle''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2005 –
Martin Edmond, ''Chronicle of the Unsung''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
* 2004 –
Rachel Barrowman
Rachel Barrowman (born 1963) is a New Zealand author and historian, with a focus on New Zealand cultural and intellectual history.
Career
Barrowman's biography of R.A.K. Mason, ''Mason: The Life of R.A.K. Mason'', won the 2004 Montana New Zeal ...
, ''Mason''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2003 –
Philip Temple
Robert Philip Temple (born 1939 in Yorkshire, England) is a Dunedin-based New Zealand author of novels, children's stories, and non-fiction. His work is characterised by a strong association with the outdoors and New Zealand ecology.
Career
...
, ''A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields''. Auckland University Press
* 2002 –
Peter Wells, ''Long Loop Home''. Vintage
* 2001 –
Michael King, ''Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame''.
Viking Press
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim and then acquire ...
* 1999 –
Kevin Ireland
Kevin Mark Ireland (né Jowsey; 18 July 1933 – 19 May 2023) was a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist and librettist. , ''Under the Bridge and Over the Moon''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
Environment
The Environment award ended in 2009. From 1998 to 1999, this award was titled the Environment & Heritage Award. From 1996 to 1997, this award was titled the Natural Heritage Award.
* 2009 – edited by
Ian J. Graham
Ian or Iain is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, derived from the Hebrew given name (Yohanan, ') and corresponding to the English name John. The spelling Ian is an Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic forename ''Iain''. It is a popular name in Sc ...
, ''A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century.''
Geological Society of New Zealand
Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Ear ...
* 2008 –
Janet Hunt
Janet may refer to:
Names
* Janet (given name)
* Janet (French singer) (1939–2011)
Surname
* Charles Janet (1849–1932), French engineer, inventor and biologist, known for the Left Step periodic table
* Jules Janet (1861–1945), French psych ...
, ''Wetlands of New Zealand''.
Random House NZ
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...
* 2007 –
George Gibbs, ''Ghosts of Gondwana''.
Craig Potton Publishing
* 2006 –
Philip Simpson, ''Pōhutukawa & Rātā: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2005 –
Anne Rimmer
Anne Rimmer (born 1947) is a New Zealand conservationist and writer. In 2005 she won a Montana Book Award.
Biography
Rimmer has been a guide on the open sanctuary island, Tiritiri Matangi Island, near Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi ...
, ''Tiritiri Matangi: A Model of Conservation''.
Tandem Press
Tandem Press is an independent publisher based in Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Islan ...
* 2004 –
Peter Batson, ''Deep New Zealand''.
Canterbury University Press
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...
* 2003 –
Geoff Chapple, ''Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail''. Random House NZ
* 2002 –
Bob Harvey, ''Rolling Thunder: The Spirit of Karekare''.
Exisle Publishing
* 2001 –
Philip Simpson, ''Dancing Leaves: The Story of New Zealand's Cabbage Tree''. Canterbury University Press
* 2000 –
Shaun Barnett &
Rob Brown, ''Classic Tramping in New Zealand ''. Craig Potton Publishing
* 1999 –
Gerard Hutching
Gerard is a masculine forename of Proto-Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constituents put together. In this ca ...
, ''The Natural World of New Zealand''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 1998 –
Peter Johnson, ''Pick of the Bunch: New Zealand Wildflowers''. Longacre Press
* 1997 – John Dawson, photography by Rob Lucas, ''New Zealand Coast and Mountain Plants: Their Communities and Lifestyles''. Victoria University Press
* 1996 –
Neville Peat
Neville Douglas Peat (born 1947) is a New Zealand author and photographer, based at Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula. He specialises in topics about natural history, notably that of southern New Zealand and New Zealand's subantarctic islands. ...
and Brian Patrick, ''Wild Dunedin: The Natural History of New Zealand’s Wildlife Capital''. Otago University Press
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
The Lifestyle & Contemporary Choice award ended in 2009. From 2000 to 2001, this award was the Lifestyle Award. From 1998 to 1999, this award was the Lives & Lifestyle Award. From 1996 to 1997, this award was the Leisure & Lifestyle Award.
* 2009 –
Alexa Johnston
Alexa Johnston is an author, art curator, and historian from New Zealand.
Background
Johnston attended Northcote College. She studied Art History at the University of Auckland.
Career
Johnston worked for nineteen years as a curator at the ...
. ''Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking''.
Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2008 –
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku (born 1949) is a New Zealand academic specialising in Māori cultural issues and a lesbian activist. In 1972, she was famously denied a visa to visit the United States on the basis of her sexuality.
Biography
Te Awekotuk ...
, ''Mau Moko: The World of Maori Tattoo''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2007 –
Ann Packer
Ann Elizabeth Packer MBE (born 8 March 1942) is an English former sprinter, hurdler and long jumper. She won a gold medal in the 800 metres and a silver in the 400 metres at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Early life
In 1959 Packer won the English ...
, ''Stitch: Contemporary New Zealand Textile Artists''.
Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...
* 2006 –
Justin Paton
Justin Paton (born 1972) is a New Zealand writer, art critic and curator, currently based in Sydney, Australia. His book ''How to Look at a Painting'' (2005) was adapted into a 12-episode television series by TVNZ in 2011.
Education
Paton stu ...
, ''How to Look at a Painting''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2005 –
Gareth Shute, ''Hip Hop Music in Aotearoa''.
Reed Publishing
Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd (formerly A. H. Reed Ltd and A. H. and A. W. Reed Ltd) was one of the leading publishers in New Zealand. It was founded by Alfred Hamish Reed and his wife Isabel in 1907. Reed's nephew Alexander Wyclif Reed joined the fi ...
* 2004 – John Kent & David Hallett, ''Classic Fly Fishing''. Craig Potton Publishing
* 2003 – Michael Cooper, ''Wine Atlas of New Zealand''.
Hodder Moa Beckett
Hodder is an English surname, derived from the Old English word "hod", meaning hood.
People
* Christopher Hodder-Williams (1926–1995), British writer
*Francis Hodder (1906–1943), Irish cricketer, rugby union player and Royal Air Force officer
...
* 2002 –
Lynnsay Rongokea &
John Dalley
John Dalley (born 3 March 1935 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American violinist. He was raised in a musical family. His father was an orchestra conductor, violinist, composer, instrumental teacher, and music educator. His mother, from Bloomington, ...
(photographer), ''The Art of Tivaevae: Traditional Cook Islands Quilting''. Godwit
* 2001 –
Julie Biuso &
Ian Batchelor (photographer), ''Fresh''.
New Holland Publishers
New Holland Publishers is an English-based international publisher of non-fiction books, founded in 1955. It is a privately held company, with offices in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
History
The publishing firm was established ...
* 2000 –
Yvonne Cave &
Valda Paddison, ''The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants''. Godwit Press
* 1999 — Heather Nicholson, ''The Loving Stitch: A History of Knitting and Spinning in New Zealand''. Auckland University Press
* 1998 –
Geoff Thomas Geoff or Geoffrey Thomas may refer to:
* Geoffrey Thomas (academic) (born 1941), president of Kellogg College, Oxford
* Geoffrey Thomas (businessman) (born 1959), Australian businessman
* Geoff Thomas (footballer, born 1948) (1948–2013), Welsh fo ...
, ''The Complete New Zealand Fisherman''. David Bateman
* 1997 – Michael Cooper, photography by John McDermott, ''The Wines and Vineyards of New Zealand''. Hodder Moa Beckett
* 1996 –
Michael Lee-Richards, ''Cook!''. Reed
Reference and Anthology
The Reference and Anthology award was presented between 2002 and 2009.
* 2009 –
C.K. Stead, ''Collected Poems 1951–2006''.
Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...
* 2008 –
Gregory O'Brien
Gregory Leo O’Brien (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.
Life
Born in Matamata in 1961, O'Brien trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckl ...
, ''A Nest of Singing Birds: 100 Years of the New Zealand School Journal''.
Learning Media Ltd.
* 2007 –
William Cottrell, ''Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History 1830–1900''.
Reed Publishing
Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd (formerly A. H. Reed Ltd and A. H. and A. W. Reed Ltd) was one of the leading publishers in New Zealand. It was founded by Alfred Hamish Reed and his wife Isabel in 1907. Reed's nephew Alexander Wyclif Reed joined the fi ...
* 2006 – Edited by
Damien Wilkins, ''Great Sporting Moments: The best of Sport magazine 1988 – 2004''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2005 – Edited by
Tony Deverson &
Graeme Kennedy, ''The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary''.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...
* 2004 – Edited by
Albert Wendt,
Reina Whaitiri
Reina (the Spanish word for queen) or La Reina may refer to:
Geography
* Reina, Badajoz, a municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
* Reina, Estonia, a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia
* La Reina, a commune ...
&
Robert Sullivan, ''Whetu Moana''. Auckland University Press
* 2003 – Edited by Paul Morris,
Harry Ricketts
Harry Ricketts (born 1950) is a poet, biographer, editor, anthologist, critic, academic, literary scholar and cricket writer. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and of a dozen British First World War poets.
Life
Ricketts was bor ...
&
Mike Grimshaw, ''Spirit in a Strange Land: A Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse''.
Godwit Press
Godwit Press is a New Zealand publisher of non-fiction works, mainly of New Zealand arts, literature, and natural history. Initially founded in Auckland in 1989, the company was taken over by Random House New Zealand in 2000 and has since been its ...
* 2002 –
Hirini Moko Mead
Sir "Sidney" Hirini Moko Haerewa Mead (born 8 January 1927) is a New Zealand anthropologist, historian, artist, teacher, writer and prominent Māori leader. Initially training as a teacher and artist, Mead taught in many schools in the East Co ...
&
Neil Grove
Neil Grove (born 18 January 1971) is a South African-English Heavyweight professional mixed martial artist. A professional competitor since 2006, Grove has competed for the UFC, Bellator Cage Rage, UCMMA, and the SFL.
Background
Originally ...
, ''Nga Pepeha a Nga Tipuna: The Sayings of the Ancestors''. Victoria University Press
Fiction runner up and Honour Awards
Fiction runner up
An award for the runner-up(s) in the Fiction category was presented from 2000 to 2009.
* 2009 (joint) –
Kate De Goldi
Kate De Goldi (born 1959) is a New Zealand novelist, children's writer and short story writer. Her early work was published under the pseudonym Kate Flannery.
Early life
De Goldi was born in Christchurch in 1959. She is of mixed Irish and Italia ...
, ''The 10 pm Question''.
Longacre Press
* 2009 (joint) –
Bernard Beckett, ''Acid Song''. Longacre Press
* 2008 –
Laurence Fearnley, ''Edwin & Matilda''.
Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2007 (joint) –
Damien Wilkins, ''The Fainter''.
Victoria University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand. As of 2022, the press had published around 800 books.
History
Vi ...
* 2007 (joint) –
Nigel Cox, ''The Cowboy Dog''. Victoria University Press
* 2006 (joint) –
Fiona Kidman
Dame Fiona Judith Kidman ( Eakin, born 26 March 1940) is a New Zealand novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story writer. She grew up in Northland, and worked as a librarian and a freelance journalist early in her career. She began writing ...
, ''The Captive Wife''.
Vintage
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product—wine (see Harvest (wine)). A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certa ...
* 2006 (joint) –
Nigel Cox, ''Responsibility''. Victoria University Press
* 2005 (joint) –
C K Stead
Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. He is one of New Zealand's most well-known and internationally celebrated writers.
Early l ...
, ''Mansfield''. Vintage Books
* 2005 (joint) –
Nigel Cox, ''Tarzan Presley''. Victoria University Press
* 2004 (joint) –
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gough Gee (born 22 August 1931) is a New Zealand novelist. He is one of New Zealand's most distinguished and prolific authors, having written over thirty novels for adults and children, and has won numerous awards both in New Zealand an ...
, ''The Scornful Moon''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2004 (joint) –
Peter Wells, ''Iridescence''. Vintage Books
* 2003 (joint) –
Fiona Farrell
Fiona Farrell (born 1947) is a New Zealand poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and playwright.
Early years and education
Fiona Farrell was born and raised in Oamaru, in the South Island of New Zealand. She attended Waitaki Girls' High Sc ...
, ''The Hopeful Traveller''. Vintage Books
* 2003 (joint) –
Owen Marshall
Owen Marshall Jones (born 17 August 1941, Te Kuiti, New Zealand), who writes under the pen name Owen Marshall, is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. The third son of a Methodist minister younger brother of Allan Jones, and older br ...
, ''When Gravity Snaps''. Vintage Books
* 2002 (joint) –
Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Fiona Knox (born 15 February 1959) is a New Zealand writer. She has authored several novels for both adults and teenagers, autobiographical novellas, and a collection of essays. One of her best-known works is ''The Vintner's Luck'' ( ...
, ''Billie's Kiss''. Victoria University Press
* 2002 (joint) –
Lloyd Jones Lloyd Jones or Lloyd-Jones may refer to:
People Sports
* Lloyd Jones (athlete) (1884–1971), American athlete in the 1908 Summer Olympics
*Lloyd Jones (figure skater) (born 1988), Welsh ice dancer
*Lloyd Jones (English footballer) (born 1995), En ...
, ''Here at the End of the World We Learn To Dance''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2001 (joint) –
Charlotte Randall, ''The Curative''. Penguin Group (NZ)
* 2001 (joint) –
Damien Wilkins, ''Nineteen Widows Under Ash''. Victoria University Press
* 2000 (joint) –
Catherine Chidgey, ''Golden Deeds''. Victoria University Press
* 2000 (joint) –
C.K. Stead, ''Talking About O'Dwyer''. Penguin Group (NZ)
Honour Award
* 2002 –
Te Onehou Phillis, ''Eruera Manuera''. Huia Publishers
* 1997 (fiction) –
Maurice Shadbolt
Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt (4 June 1932 – 10 October 2004) was a New Zealand writerRobinson and Wattie 1998 and occasional playwright.
Biography
Shadbolt was born in Auckland, and was the eldest of three children. He had a younger bro ...
, ''Dove on the Waters''.
David Ling
David Gregory Ling (born January 9, 1975) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. Ling was selected by the Quebec Nordiques in the 7th round (179th overall) of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft.
Playing career Junior
Ling played with th ...
* 1997 (poetry) –
J. C. Sturm, ''Dedications''. Steele Roberts
* 1996 – Pei Te Hurinui Jones, translated by Bruce Biggs, ''Nga Iwi o Tainui: The Traditional History of the Tainui People – Nga Koorero Tuku o Nga Tuupuna''. Auckland University Press
Other awards
BPANZ Review Page or Programme Award
This award ended in 2009. Before 2006, this award was known as the Review Pages/Section of the Year Award.
* 2009 – ''
New Zealand Listener
The ''New Zealand Listener'' is a weekly New Zealand magazine that covers the political, cultural and literary life of New Zealand by featuring a variety of topics, including current events, politics, social issues, health, technology, arts, f ...
''
* 2008 – ''
New Zealand Listener
The ''New Zealand Listener'' is a weekly New Zealand magazine that covers the political, cultural and literary life of New Zealand by featuring a variety of topics, including current events, politics, social issues, health, technology, arts, f ...
''
* 2007 – ''
New Zealand Listener
The ''New Zealand Listener'' is a weekly New Zealand magazine that covers the political, cultural and literary life of New Zealand by featuring a variety of topics, including current events, politics, social issues, health, technology, arts, f ...
''
* 2006 – ''
Dominion Post''
* 2005 – ''
North & South''
* 2004 – ''
New Zealand Listener
The ''New Zealand Listener'' is a weekly New Zealand magazine that covers the political, cultural and literary life of New Zealand by featuring a variety of topics, including current events, politics, social issues, health, technology, arts, f ...
''
* 2003 – ''
New Zealand Listener
The ''New Zealand Listener'' is a weekly New Zealand magazine that covers the political, cultural and literary life of New Zealand by featuring a variety of topics, including current events, politics, social issues, health, technology, arts, f ...
''
* 2002 – ''
North & South''
* 2001 – ''
The Evening Post''
* 2000 – ''
The Evening Post''
* 1999 – ''
Landfall
Landfall is the event of a storm moving over land after being over water. More broadly, and in relation to human travel, it refers to 'the first land that is reached or seen at the end of a journey across the sea or through the air, or the fact ...
''
* 1998 – ''
The Evening Post''
BPANZ Reviewer of the Year Award
This award ended in 2009. Before 2006, this award was known as the Reviewer of the Year.
* 2009 –
David Eggleton
David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer. Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022. Eggleton's work has app ...
* 2008 –
Charlotte Grimshaw
Charlotte Grimshaw (born December 1966) is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer, columnist and former lawyer. Since the publication of her debut novel ''Provocation'' (1999), she has received a number of significant literary awards incl ...
* 2007 –
David Eggleton
David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer. Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022. Eggleton's work has app ...
* 2006 –
Jolisa Gracewood
* 2005 –
Tony Simpson
Anthony James Simpson (born 15 July 1965) is a former Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2005 to 2017. He served as a minister in the government of Colin Barnett from Marc ...
* 2004 –
Michael King
* 2003 –
David Eggleton
David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer. Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022. Eggleton's work has app ...
* 2002 –
Jane Hurley
* 2001 –
David Eggleton
David Eggleton (born 1952) is a New Zealand poet, critic and writer. Eggleton has been awarded the Ockham New Zealand Book Award for poetry and in 2019 was appointed New Zealand Poet Laureate, a title he held until 2022. Eggleton's work has app ...
* 2000 –
Michael King
* 1999 –
Iain Sharp
Iain Sharp (born 1953 in Glasgow) is a New Zealand poet and critic.
Sharp emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1961, where they settled in Auckland. He studied at Auckland University where he received a doctorate in English in 1982. His ...
* 1998 –
Graeme Lay
See also
*
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards
The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a series of literary awards presented annually to recognise excellence in children and young adult's literature in New Zealand. The awards began in 1982 as the New Zealand Governme ...
*
List of New Zealand literary awards
Current and historic literary awards in New Zealand include:
See also
* New Zealand literature
References
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References
External links
* {{official website
Ockham New Zealand Book Awardsat
Christchurch City Libraries
Christchurch City Libraries is operated by the Christchurch City Council and is a network of 21 libraries and a mobile book bus. Following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake the previous Christchurch Central Library building was demolished, and w ...
, 2016–2021, with covers and links
New Zealand Post Book Awardsat Christchurch City Libraries, 2010–2014, with covers and links
Montana New Zealand Book Awardsat Christchurch City Libraries, 1996–2009, with covers and links
Montana Book Awardsat Christchurch City Libraries, 1994–1995, with covers and links
New Zealand Book Awardsat Christchurch City Libraries, 1976–1995, with covers and links
Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awardsat Christchurch City Libraries, 1968–1993, with covers and links
New Zealand fiction awards
Awards established in 1996
1996 establishments in New Zealand
New Zealand poetry awards
New Zealand non-fiction literary awards