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.

Contents

List of winners by Year

2011

Chris Bourke, Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. Auckland University Press[1]
Chris Bourke, Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. Auckland University Press
Laurence Fearnley, The Hut Builder. Penguin Group (NZ)
Kate Camp, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls. Victoria University Press
Damian Skinner, The Passing World: The Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai. Rim Books
Chris Bourke, Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. Auckland University Press

2010

Judith Binney, Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921. Bridget Williams Books[2]
Alison Wong, As the Earth Turns Silver. Penguin Group (NZ)
Brian Turner, Just This. Victoria University Press
Judith Binney, Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921. Bridget Williams Books
Al Brown, Go Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast. Random House NZ
Al Brown, Go Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast. Random House NZ
Anna Taylor, Relief. Victoria University Press
Selina Tusitala Marsh, Fast Talking PI. Auckland University Press
Pip Desmond, Trust: A True Story of Women & Gangs. Random House NZ

2009

Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins (Bloomsbury)

The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt (Victoria University Press)

Biography category winner Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press)

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)

Collected Poems 1951–2006 by CK Stead (Auckland University Press)

Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston (Penguin Group New Zealand)

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)

The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Victoria University Press)

Everything Talks by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press)

Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Godwit Press)

New Zealand Listener reviewer David Eggleton

New Zealand Listener

2008

2007

2006

Philip Simpson, Pōhutukawa & Rātā: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees. Te Papa Press
Maurice Gee, Blindsight. Penguin Books
Maurice Gee, Blindsight. Penguin Books
Fiona Kidman, The Captive Wife. Vintage
Nigel Cox, Responsibility. Victoria University Press
Bill Manhire, Lifted. Victoria University Press
Rosemary McLeod, Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s - 1950s. Vintage
Graeme Dingle, Dingle. Vintage
Philip Simpson, Pōhutukawa & Rātā: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees. Vintage
Justin Paton, How to Look at a Painting. Vintage
Edited by Hannah Holm & Lara Strongman, Contemporary New Zealand Photographers. Vintage
Edited by Damien Wilkins, Great Sporting Moments: The best of Sport magazine 1988 - 2004. Victoria University Press
Maurice Gee, Blindsight. Penguin Books
Fiona Kidman, The Captive Wife. Vintage

2005

Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design. Godwit
Patricia Grace, Tu. Penguin Books
Julie Le Clerc and John Bougen, Made in Morocco. Penguin Books
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

2004

Anne Salmond, The Trial of the Cannibal Dog. Allen Lane / Penguin Books
Annamarie Jagose, Slow Water. Victoria University Press
Michael King, The Penguin History of New Zealand. Penguin Books
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

2003

Michael Cooper, Wine Atlas of New Zealand. Hodder Moa Beckett
Stephanie Johnson, The Shag Incident. Vintage
Glenn Colquhoun, Playing God. Steele Roberts
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

2002

Lynley Hood, A City Possessed: The Christchurc Civic Creche Case. Longacre Press
Craig Marriner, Stonedogs. Vintage
Lynley Hood, A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case. Longacre Press
Fiction: Craig Marriner, Stonedogs. Vintage
Poetry: Chris Price, Husk. Auckland University Press
Non-Fiction: Steve Braunias, Fool's Paradise. Random House
Te Onehou Phillis, Eruera Manuera. Huia Publishers

2001

Michael King, Wrestling With The Angel: A Life of Janet Frame. Viking
Lloyd Jones, The Book of Fame. Penguin Books
Michael King, Wrestling With The Angel: A Life of Janet Frame. Viking
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

2000

Grahame Sydney, The Art of Grahame Sydney. Longacre Press
Owen Marshall, Harlequin Rex. Vintage
Grahame Sydney, The Art of Grahame Sydney. Longacre Press
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

1999

Heather Nicholson, The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand. Auckland University Press
Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck. Victoria University Press
Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck. Victoria University Press
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

1998

Harry Orsman (ed.), Dictionary of New Zealand English. Oxford University Press
Maurice Gee, Live Bodies. Penguin
Malcolm McKinnon(ed.), New Zealand Historical Atlas. David Bateman
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

1997

There were no Montana Medal, Deutz Medal or Reader's Choice Award for 1997 and 1996.

Jessie Munro, The Story of Suzanne Aubert. Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books
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

1996

There were no Montana Medal, Deutz Medal or Reader's Choice Award for 1997 and 1996.

Judith Binney, Redemption Songs - A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki. Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books
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

See also

External links

  1. ^ "Kiwi Music History Takes Top Literary Prize | Booksellers New Zealand". booksellers.co.nz. 2011 [last update]. http://www.booksellers.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-post-book-awards/kiwi-music-history-takes-top-literary-prize#winners. Retrieved 30 July 2011. 
  2. ^ "2010 Awards | Booksellers New Zealand". booksellers.co.nz. 2011 [last update]. http://www.booksellers.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-post-book-awards/2010-awards. Retrieved 30 July 2011. "The winners of the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2010 were announced at the Awards Ceremony in Auckland on 27 August." 
  3. ^ "2009 Awards | Booksellers New Zealand". booksellers.co.nz. 2011 [last update]. http://www.booksellers.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-post-book-awards/2009-awards. Retrieved 2 August 2011.