New Zealand Post Book Awards
The New Zealand Post Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards. From 2010, the awards will be known as the New Zealand Post Book Awards.
The main prize in this event is the New Zealand Post Book of the Year, which is awarded to one of the four category winners; either Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction or Poetry. All finalist books are also eligible for the People's Choice Award, which is voted for by members of the public.
Best First Book prizes are awarded to first time authors and this announcement is made at the same time as the finalists of the New Zealand Post Book Awards are named.
Booksellers New Zealand manages the awards. The awards main sponsors are New Zealand Post, Creative New Zealand. Other supporters include the Book Publishers Association of New Zealand, the New Zealand Society of Authors and Book Tokens (NZ) Ltd.
List of winners by Year
- New Zealand Post Book of the Year
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- Chris Bourke, Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. Auckland University Press[1]
- General Non-fiction Award winner
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- Chris Bourke, Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. Auckland University Press
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- Laurence Fearnley, The Hut Builder. Penguin Group (NZ)
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- Kate Camp, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls. Victoria University Press
- Illustrated Non-fiction Award winner
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- Damian Skinner, The Passing World: The Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai. Rim Books
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- Chris Bourke, Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. Auckland University Press
- New Zealand Post Book of the Year
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- Judith Binney, Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921. Bridget Williams Books[2]
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- Alison Wong, As the Earth Turns Silver. Penguin Group (NZ)
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- Brian Turner, Just This. Victoria University Press
- General non-fiction award Winner
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- Judith Binney, Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921. Bridget Williams Books
- Illustrated non-fiction award winner
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- Al Brown, Go Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast. Random House NZ
- People's choice award winner
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- Al Brown, Go Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast. Random House NZ
- NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction Award Winner
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- Anna Taylor, Relief. Victoria University Press
- NZSA Jessie MAcKay Best first book of poetry award winner
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- Selina Tusitala Marsh, Fast Talking PI. Auckland University Press
- NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book of non-fiction award winner
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- Pip Desmond, Trust: A True Story of Women & Gangs. Random House NZ
- Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry Fiction category winner[3]
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- Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins (Bloomsbury)
The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt (Victoria University Press)
- Montana Medal for Non-Fiction winner
Biography category winner Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press)
- Environment category winner
A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century edited by Ian J. Graham (Geological Society of New Zealand)
Buying the Land, Selling the Land by Richard Boast (Victoria University Press)
- Reference and Anthology category winner
Collected Poems 1951–2006 by CK Stead (Auckland University Press)
- Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture category winner
Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston (Penguin Group New Zealand)
- Illustrative category winner
Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance by Len Castle (Lopdell House Gallery)
He Pātaka Kupu te kai a te rangatira by Maori Language Commission (Raupo Press)
- NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Victoria University Press)
- NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry
Everything Talks by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press)
- NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction
Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Godwit Press)
- BPANZ Reviewer of the Year Award
New Zealand Listener reviewer David Eggleton
- BPANZ Best Review Page or Programme Award
New Zealand Listener
- Montana Medal for Non Fiction
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- Philip Simpson, Pōhutukawa & Rātā: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees. Te Papa Press
- Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
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- Maurice Gee, Blindsight. Penguin Books
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- Maurice Gee, Blindsight. Penguin Books
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- Fiona Kidman, The Captive Wife. Vintage
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- Nigel Cox, Responsibility. Victoria University Press
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- Bill Manhire, Lifted. Victoria University Press
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- Rosemary McLeod, Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s - 1950s. Vintage
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- Graeme Dingle, Dingle. Vintage
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- Philip Simpson, Pōhutukawa & Rātā: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees. Vintage
- Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
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- Justin Paton, How to Look at a Painting. Vintage
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- Edited by Hannah Holm & Lara Strongman, Contemporary New Zealand Photographers. Vintage
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- Edited by Damien Wilkins, Great Sporting Moments: The best of Sport magazine 1988 - 2004. Victoria University Press
- Reader's Choice Joint Winners
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- Maurice Gee, Blindsight. Penguin Books
- Fiona Kidman, The Captive Wife. Vintage
- Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
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- Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design. Godwit
- Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
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- Patricia Grace, Tu. Penguin Books
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- Julie Le Clerc and John Bougen, Made in Morocco. Penguin Books
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- Fiction: Julian Novitz, My Real Life and Other Stories. Vintage
- Poetry: Sonja Yelich, Clung. Auckland University Press
- Non-fiction: Douglas Wright, Ghost Dance. Penguin Books
- Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
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- Anne Salmond, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog. Allen Lane / Penguin Books
- Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
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- Annamarie Jagose, Slow Water. Victoria University Press
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- Michael King, The Penguin History of New Zealand. Penguin Books
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- Fiction: Kelly Ana Morey, Bloom. Penguin Books
- Poetry: Cliff Fell, The Adulterer's Bible. Victoria University Press
- Non-Fiction: Deidre Brown, Tai Tokerau Whakairo Rakau: Northland Maori Wood Carving. Reed Publishing Ltd
- Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
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- Michael Cooper, Wine Atlas of New Zealand. Hodder Moa Beckett
- Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
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- Stephanie Johnson, The Shag Incident. Vintage
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- Glenn Colquhoun, Playing God. Steele Roberts
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- Fiction: Paula Morris Queen of Beauty. Penguin Books
- Poetry: Kay McKenzie Cooke, Feeding the Dogs, Kay McKenzie Cooke. University of Otago Press
- Non-Fiction: Sam Mahon, Year of the Horse. Longacre Press
- Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
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- Lynley Hood, A City Possessed: The Christchurc Civic Creche Case. Longacre Press
- Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
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- Craig Marriner, Stonedogs. Vintage
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- Lynley Hood, A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case. Longacre Press
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- Fiction: Craig Marriner, Stonedogs. Vintage
- Poetry: Chris Price, Husk. Auckland University Press
- Non-Fiction: Steve Braunias, Fool's Paradise. Random House
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- Te Onehou Phillis, Eruera Manuera. Huia Publishers
- Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
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- Michael King, Wrestling With The Angel: A Life of Janet Frame. Viking
- Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
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- Lloyd Jones, The Book of Fame. Penguin Books
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- Michael King, Wrestling With The Angel: A Life of Janet Frame. Viking
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- Fiction: Karyn Hay, Emerald Budgies. Vintage
- Poetry: Stephanie de Montalk, Animals Indoors. Victoria University Press
- Non-Fiction: Paul Tapsell, Pukaki: A Comet Returns. Reed Publishing
- Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
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- Grahame Sydney, The Art of Grahame Sydney. Longacre Press
- Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
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- Owen Marshall, Harlequin Rex. Vintage
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- Grahame Sydney, The Art of Grahame Sydney. Longacre Press
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- Fiction: Duncan Sarkies, Stray Thoughts And Nosebleeds. Victoria University Press
- Poetry: Glenn Colquhoun, The Art of Walking Upright. Steele Roberts
- Non-Fiction: Peter Thomson, Kava In The Blood. Tandem Press
- Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
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- Heather Nicholson, The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand. Auckland University Press
- Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
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- Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck. Victoria University Press
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- Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck. Victoria University Press
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- Fiction: Willian Brandt, Alpha Male. Victoria University Press
- Poetry: Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars. Victoria University Press
- Non-Fiction: Helen Schamroth, 100 New Zealand Craft Artists. Godwit
- Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
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- Harry Orsman (ed.), Dictionary of New Zealand English. Oxford University Press
- Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
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- Maurice Gee, Live Bodies. Penguin
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- Malcolm McKinnon(ed.), New Zealand Historical Atlas. David Bateman
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- Fiction: Catherine Chidgey, In a fishbone church. Victoria University Press
- Poetry: Kapka Kassabova, All Roads Lead to the Sea. Auckland University Press.
- Non-Fiction: Genevieve Noser, Olives: The new passion. Penguin
There were no Montana Medal, Deutz Medal or Reader's Choice Award for 1997 and 1996.
- Book of the Year/Cultural Heritage
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- Jessie Munro, The Story of Suzanne Aubert. Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books
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- Fiction: Dominic Sheehan, Finding Home. Secker & Waburg
- Poetry: Diane Brown, Before the Divorce We Go To Disneyland. Tandem Press
- Non-Fiction: Jessie Munro, The Story of Suzanne Aubert. Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books
There were no Montana Medal, Deutz Medal or Reader's Choice Award for 1997 and 1996.
- Book of the Year/Cultural Heritage
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- Judith Binney, Redemption Songs - A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books
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- Fiction: Emily Perkins, Not Her Real Name. Victoria University Press.
- Poetry: James Brown, Go Round Power Please. Victoria University Press
- Non-Fiction: Alex Frame, Salmond: Southern Jurist. Victoria University Press
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