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2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards Winners & Finalists
Aug 28th - 2010 Book of the Year Winner: Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921 by Judith Binney, Bridget Williams Books
NZ Post Book Awards judge, Paul Diamond, described the winning work as one that will profoundly change our understanding of our shared history. The book also won the General Non-Fiction category.
Other winners: Fiction Award As the Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong; Poetry Just This by Brian Turner; Illustrated Non-Fiction winner was Go Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast by Al Brown. Go Fish also won the People's Choice Award.
Sir Julius Vogel Award Winners
Fan voted awards for various endeavours in the science fiction, fantasy or horror fields by New Zealanders.
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Best Novel: Beyond The Wall Of Time, Russell Kirkpatrick: Best YA Novel: Brainjack, Brian Falkner:; Best Collected Work: Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, Mark Pirie and Tim Jones - Full lists
NZ Librarians Make Their Choice - LIANZA Winners
August 18th - Delicious as ever the 2010 LIANZA winners sponsored by Fishpond and Caffe L’Affare have been announced.
Gavin Bishop’s There was Crooked Man , Dear Alison edited by Simon Pollard, The Billionaires Curse by Richard Newsome , Banquo's Son by Tania Roxborough and Hewa written by Darryn Joseph were amongst the winners.
Full report Winners and Shortlist at Award Tragic Blog
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Esther Glen Award (Fiction) | Russell Clarke Award (Illustration) | Elsie Locke (Nonfiction | Te Kura Pounamu (te reo Maori |
2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Winners
Picture Book and New Zealand Post Book of the Year: Old Hu-Hu by Kyle Mewburn, illustrated by Rachel Driscoll (Scholastic New Zealand). Te reo edition: Hu-Hu Koroheke, translated by Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira (Scholastic New Zealand)
Honour Award: The Word Witch by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by David Elliot and edited by Tessa Duder (HarperCollins Publishers)
Non-fiction: E3 Call Home by Janet Hunt (Random House New Zealand)
Junior Fiction: The Loblolly Boy by James Norcliffe (Longacre Press)
Young Adult Fiction: Blood of the Lamb: The Crossing by Mandy Hager (Random House New Zealand)
Best First Book Award: The Bone Tiki by David Hair (HarperC ollins Publishers)
Children's Choice Award: The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith, illustrated by Katz Cowley (Scholastic New Zealand) More
Alison Wong on OZ Prime Minister's Awards Shortlist
As the Earth turns Silver, Alison Wong has made the fiction shortlist of the $100,000 AU PM's Literary Awards for 2010. In all 27 books have been nominated across four categories. Full Lists
2009 Montana Winners
Emily Perkins for, Novel About My Wife. Described as "sophisticated and urban", registering the nuances of class, concealmentWellington curator and writer Jill Trevelyan won the non-fiction award for Rita Angus: An Artist's Life. Kate de Goldi's, The 10pm Question, picked-up the Readers Choice.
Ten categories were awarded plus three from NZSA. More
Winners Ngä Kupu Ora 2009 Massey University's celebration of excellence in Māori publishing. Mau Moko: The World of Mäori Tattoo by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku was one of the winners. Delicious. More
NZ Society of Authors Winners A story about a high-school sex scandal that jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power, The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton won Best First Book .
Everything Talks by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press) won hte Poetry prize and Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Random House New Zealand) the Non-fiction. More
Inaugural Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize Winner
Winner: The Awa Book of New Zealand Science edited by Rebecca Priestley (Awa Press)
An anthology of writing that traces the development of New Zealand science and the extraordinary discoveries made by New Zealand scientists.
The fifty pieces include the early naturalists' observations, geological accounts of the famous pink and white terraces, Ernest Rutherford’s splitting of the atom, modern breakthroughs in nanotechnology, and the recent discovery of an extra-solar planet Full lists
Sir Julius Vogel Award Winners
The Best Novel -Adult Category Russell Kirkpatrick, with Dark Heart (Path of Revenge in 2008). Newcomer, Helen Lowe, Best Novel - YA Category for , Thornspell. Details
Margaret Mahy Wins America's Boston Globe Horn with Bubble Trouble.
Storyline Notables Winners T he 2009 Storyline Notable Books are as lovely as ever. Full lists
