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Literary Heavyweights Vie For Top Fiction Prize In Ockham NZ Book Awards
Thursday, 7 March 2024, 12:27 pm | New Zealand Book Awards
Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton faces off against critically acclaimed former national award winners Emily Perkins, Pip Adam and Stephen Daisley for the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, as finalists in the 2024 Ockham New ... More >>
Children’s Book Award Winner Mat Tait To Bring His Book To Life For Thousands Of Kiwi Kids
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 6:40 pm | New Zealand Book Awards
Mat Tait. Photo credit: Nina van der Voorn Thousands of children across New Zealand are set to join Mat Tait, supreme winner at the recent New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, for a visually beautiful re-telling of his winning book ... More >>
Teenager Joins Established Names On Shortlist For National Children’s Book Awards
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 11:41 am | New Zealand Book Awards
A 16-year-old Kāpiti Coast student is among the writers and illustrators announced today as finalists in the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, the preeminent celebration of books for Aotearoa’s young readers. Arlo Kelly, one ... More >>
Legendary Author Draws Thousands Of Spellbound Young Kiwis To Special Online Event
Thursday, 1 December 2022, 3:18 pm | New Zealand Book Awards
More than 4,000 young Kiwi booklovers in schools and libraries across the country attended a very special online event yesterday, where legendary author Joy Cowley read from her classic tale The Tiny Woman’s Coat (illustrated by Giselle ... More >>
Record 7000 Children Join Reading Initiative As Schools Fight Literacy Decline
Friday, 2 September 2022, 2:26 am | New Zealand Book Awards
New Zealand’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators are being live-streamed to hundreds of classrooms around the country as a free reading initiative designed to combat declining literacy rates and spark a lifelong love of reading takes off. ... More >>
Record 7000 Children Join Reading Initiative As Schools Fight Literacy Decline
Friday, 2 September 2022, 2:25 am | New Zealand Book Awards
New Zealand’s most loved children’s authors and illustrators are being live-streamed to hundreds of classrooms around the country as a free reading initiative designed to combat declining literacy rates and spark a lifelong love of reading takes off. ... More >>
Call For Judges Of The 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 4:58 pm | New Zealand Book Awards
The organisers of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are calling for expressions of interest from readers with a deep knowledge of New Zealand literature who would like to be considered as judges of the 2023 awards. Applications are invited from ... More >>
Longlists For New Zealand’s Premier Literary Awards Revealed
Thursday, 27 January 2022, 6:21 am | New Zealand Book Awards
Books exploring politics, fashion, social change, war, contested histories and family relationships sit alongside works celebrating our natural world and the enduring legacies of our activists and artists in the longlists for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand ... More >>
Announcing the 2022 Ockham NZ Book Awards Judges
Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 9:07 am | New Zealand Book Awards
Announcing the 2022 Ockham NZ Book Awards Judges Internationally acclaimed authors, long-time reviewers, award-winning photographers and a respected former publisher are among the 12 experts selected to judge the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ... More >>
New Zealand’s Richest Literary Award Donor Reveals Her Identity
Saturday, 22 February 2020, 12:53 pm | New Zealand Book Awards
The anonymous benefactor responsible for funding the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards’ $50,000 annual fiction prize is ready to be known. Retired Bay of Plenty radiologist Jann Medlicott has been an avid reader her whole life and believes we cannot call ... More >>
This year’s Book of the Year for young readers is “The Bomb”
Thursday, 8 August 2019, 8:08 am | New Zealand Book Awards
A sparkling story of courage and transformation has been judged the best book for young readers at this year’s national children’s book awards. The Bomb by Sacha Cotter, illustrated by Josh Morgan, was awarded the highest prize in children’s ... More >>
NZCYA awards shortlist shows strength of NZ kid's publishing
Thursday, 6 June 2019, 9:21 am | New Zealand Book Awards
New Zealand’s children’s publishing is in fine health. That’s the verdict of the judges for the 2019 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults after they faced the daunting challenge of whittling down a shortlist for this year’s ... More >>
Book Awards Judges announced for 2019 Ockham New Zealand
Wednesday, 22 August 2018, 1:24 pm | New Zealand Book Awards
An experienced panel of 12 judges – including prize-winning writers and poets, as well as historians, academics, curators and one of the country’s most respected booksellers – will select the best books published this year for the 2019 Ockham ... More >>
Book Awards Celebrate 50th Anniversary
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 9:00 am | New Zealand Book Awards
New Zealand’s premier literary awards celebrate their 50th anniversary with a rich collection of 16 finalist books by both lauded established writers and emerging stars. More >>
Globally Lauded Novelist Wins NZ’s Biggest Fiction Prize
Wednesday, 17 May 2017, 10:10 am | New Zealand Book Awards
Internationally renowned Ngāruawāhia resident Catherine Chidgey has won New Zealand’s richest writing award, the $50,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, for her novel The Wish Child. The award was announced this evening at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand ... More >>
Literary Heavyweights Vie for Top Writing Honours
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 10:53 am | New Zealand Book Awards
Media Release – for immediate release Literary Heavyweights Vie for Top Writing Honours Four of the country’s most respected novelists are in the running for New Zealand’s richest fiction writing prize with today’s announcement of the 2017 ... More >>
ANZAC Heroes wins Margaret Mahy Book of the Year
Tuesday, 9 August 2016, 12:36 pm | New Zealand Book Awards
ANZAC Heroes by Maria Gill and illustrated by Marco Ivancic wins Margaret Mahy Book of the Year - Winners announced for the 2016 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults “Simply stunning, with gold-standard production values,” say the judges ... More >>
Inspiring Kiwi Children to Start Creative Writing
Tuesday, 26 July 2016, 12:23 pm | New Zealand Book Awards
Kiwi schoolchildren will be inspired to read, draw and develop their creative writing skills by 25 passionate and entertaining authors and illustrators in this year’s Finalist Authors’ Tour for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. More >>
Judges Spoilt For Choice In Choosing This Year's Finalists
Wednesday, 8 June 2016, 11:59 am | New Zealand Book Awards
JUDGES SPOILT FOR CHOICE IN CHOOSING THIS YEAR’S FINALISTS IN THE NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS - ANNOUNCED TODAY More >>
Shearer, farmer and former soldier wins premier book award
Wednesday, 11 May 2016, 9:21 am | New Zealand Book Awards
Stephen Daisley has won New Zealand’s richest writing prize, the inaugural $50,000 Acorn Foundation Literary Award, for his novel Coming Rain, announced this evening at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. More >>
