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Ockham NZ Book Awards 2025 Judges’ Announcement

Friday, 13 September 2024, 5:27 pm | Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Category longlists will be announced on 30 January 2025, and the shortlist of 16 books on 5 March 2025.The finalists and winners will be celebrated on 14 May 2025 at an awards ceremony held as part of the Auckland Writers Festival. More >>

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 Winners’ Announcement

Thursday, 16 May 2024, 8:32 am | Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

‘Disturbing, smart, and funny as hell’ novel wins country’s richest writing prize. More >>

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023 Winners’ Announcement

Thursday, 18 May 2023, 9:50 am | Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Celebrated New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has won the $64,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for The Axeman’s Carnival – a page-turning novel of depth, pathos and humanity that skilfully infuses ... More >>

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Shortlist Showcases Critical And Commercial Successes

Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 6:06 am | Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Bestselling books by both debut writers and established literary luminaries feature among the 16 finalists in the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards announced today. The shortlist – selected from a longlist of 44 books by four panels of specialist ... More >>

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist Breaks All Records

Thursday, 2 February 2023, 6:03 am | Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Highly personal memoir, probing political treatise and gut-punching poetry collections sit alongside trailblazing fiction and books exploring our whenua, moana, artists and entertainers in the longlists for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Today’s ... More >>

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Judges Announce ‘Surprisingly Diverse’ Shortlist

Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 6:44 am | Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Dazzling and diverse writing that reveals and reflects our changing world is the hallmark of the sixteen finalist books in the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today.  The shortlist – selected from a longlist of 40 books ... More >>

 
 
 
 
 

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