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Published by: Gecko Press. Written by Michaela Keeble with Kerehi Grace (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Porou), and illustrated by Tokerau Brown. Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapōkai is groundbreaking, deeply creative, and completely original. The story comes from the mouth of a child, and the illustrations are a direct window to the imagination, or ...
Aug 14, 2024 · A best selling author in New Zealand and overseas has clinched the ultimate prize at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Stacy Gregg won the 2024 Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award on Wednesday night for her novel Nine Girls. The book - set in the tumultuous 1970s and 1980s - draws from Gregg's own childhood in ...
About the Best First Book Prizes. The Hubert Church Prize for Fiction was awarded from 1945 by PEN NZ (later the New Zealand Society of Authors), and named for the poet, novelist and critic who died in 1932. The Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry was awarded from 1940 by PEN NZ and named for the first locally born poet to achieve national ...
Thanks to the generosity of the late Jann Medlicott, the winner of the fiction prize received $65,000 in 2024. Winners of the other three principal category awards each received $12,000, as did the recipient of Te Mūrau o te Tuhi. Each of the four Mātātuhi Foundation Best First Book prizes is worth $3,000. The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards ...
Disturbing, smart, and funny as hell’ novel wins country’s richest writing prize Internationally acclaimed New Zealand writer Emily Perkins MNZM has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Lioness – a smart, multi-layered, laugh-out-loud novel exploring wealth, class and female mid-life reckoning.
Aug 10, 2023 · This is the first time in the award’s history that a bilingual book has won and the occasion is a marker of the evolving nature of our publishing landscape as more and more publishers recognise ...
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