Country of origin New Zealand Imprints Thumbsprint Press Headquarters location Wellington, New Zealand Founded 1970 | Publication types Books Official website vup.victoria.ac.nz Headquarters Wellington, New Zealand | |
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Parent company Victoria University Press Key people Fergus Barrowman (publisher), Kyleigh Hodgson (editing and production), Craig Gamble (administrator), Kirsten McDougall (publicist) | ||
Victoria University Press (VUP), founded in the 1970s, is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Publications
VUP is a major scholarly publisher specialising in New Zealand history and public affairs. It is also a leading publisher of 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.
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.
Books on Maori topics include important collections of writings in Maori by major figures such as Hirini Moko Mead and Āpirana Ngata, as well as Dame Joan Metge's widely read books on contemporary Maori society and cross-cultural communication.
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."
Awards
Books published by VUP have won numerous Montana New Zealand Book Awards such as: