Victoria University Press

Victoria University Press
Parent company Victoria University Press
Founded 1970
Country of origin New Zealand
Headquarters location Wellington
Key people Fergus Barrowman (publisher), Kyleigh Hodgson (editing and production), Craig Gamble (administrator), Kirsten McDougall (publicist)[1]
Publication types Books
Imprints Thumbsprint Press
Official website vup.victoria.ac.nz

Victoria University Press (VUP), founded in the 1970s, is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand.[2]

About

Publications

VUP is a major scholarly publisher specialising in New Zealand history and public affairs. It is also a leading publisher scholarly non-fiction, literary fiction, and poetry. Its highlights include the novel, Gifted by Patrick Evans, and television's Tim Wilson's Their Faces Were Shining. It has a backlist of over 400 books in print, and on average issues twenty five new titles each year.[3][1]

VUP publishes vital work in New Zealand history. The History list, particularly social history, is viewed in broad, culturally diverse, and interdisciplinary terms; embracing studies of New Zealand's past and present and how these may shape the future.[1]

Books on Maori topics include important collections of writings in Maori by major figures such as Hirini Moko Mead and Apirana Ngata, as well as Dame Joan Metge's widely read books on contemporary Maori society and cross-cultural communication.[1]

Notable authors

VUP has published works of many of New Zealand's strongest and most vibrant poets, including:

VUP has also published foremost writers such as:

University funding

VUP receives funding from Victoria University of Wellington, which publisher Fergus Barrowman notes is extremely useful: "If we were independent with no funds at all it would be extremely hard. I don't know how some of New Zealand's independent publishers manage to do the books they do. University support is crucial for us. One of the great things is we can take commercial risks, like first books and short stories."[3]

Awards

Books published by VUP have won numerous Montana New Zealand Book Awards such as:

Sources

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "About Us". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  2. "Victoria University Press". Zoomin.co.nz. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Dekker, Diana (28 February 2011). "The Life of a Publisher". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 5 December 2013.

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