The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, merging the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards. From 2010 until 2014, the awards were known as the New Zealand Post Book Awards. They are governed by the New Zealand Book Awards Trust.
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There are four categories: fiction (The Acorn Foundation Literary Award), General Non-Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction and Poetry. Best First Book prizes are awarded to first time authors in each of the categories. The awards event is the opening event of the Auckland Writers Festival. The Awards' main sponsors are Ockham Residential, The Acorn Foundation, Creative New Zealand and Book Tokens Ltd.
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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
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1997
There were no Montana Medal, Deutz Medal or Reader's Choice Award for 1997 and 1996.
1996
There were no Montana Medal, Deutz Medal or Reader's Choice Award for 1997 and 1996.
References
New Zealand Post Book Awards Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA