Steve Braunias (born Austria 1967) is an award-winning New Zealand author, columnist, journalist and editor.
He has won 30 national awards for writing, including the 2009 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Literary fellowship, the 2010 CLL Non-Fiction Award, the supreme award as the 2006 Qantas Fellowship at the New Zealand Qantas (Print) Media [1], and is three-time winner of the Cathay Pacific Travel Writer of the Year Award (2002, 2010, 2011). He has also won awards as a sports writer, crime writer, food writer, and humourist.
Braunias grew up in Mount Maunganui reading Roy of the Rovers, a comic book that would come to influence his later columns through its characters' names. He has worked as editor of Capital Times, feature writer at Metro magazine, deputy editor of the NZ Listener and senior writer at the Sunday Star-Times. In 2010 he was Editor in Residence at Wintec in Hamilton.
He is the author of five books, has written for satirical TV series Eating Media Lunch and Unauthorised History of New Zealand, and is currently working on New Zealand : A Biography, an affectionate travel book about the real New Zealand and New Zealanders, to be published in 2011 by Awa Press.