Winners 2009

MONTANA MEDAL WINNER - FICTION 2009

Novel About My Wife - Emily Perkins

Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-074759-650-9  $27.99 pbk

Ceremony 2009

The 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Ceremony was held in Auckland, at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on the evening of Monday 27 July 2009.

View a selection of photos from the ceremony in the gallery below.

Tickets to the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards ceremony will be available to purchase through Booksellers New Zealand mid-2010.

MAORI LANGUAGE CATEGORY WINNER 2009

Maori Language Commission

Raupo 978-0-1400-9-788 RRP $50.00 hb

He Pātaka Kupu: te kai a te rangatira is a taonga – a landmark Māori-only language resource, compiled out of seven years' research by the Māori Language Commission. Containing almost 24,000 entries, it is a comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the Māori language, for proficient Māori speakers.

NZSA BEST FIRST BOOK OF POETRY 2009

Everything Talks - Sam Sampson

Auckland University Press, ISBN 978-1-86940-411-6, $24.99 pbk

If the poems in this collection by Sam Sampson are mysterious, they are also as true to immediate fact – informed by a particularly New Zealand nostalgia and sense of loss – as the poet can make them. In these poems of history and geography, of ships and sky, of flotsam and jetsam in an imaginary sea, many different voices may be heard . . . everything talks.

ILLUSTRATIVE CATEGORY WINNER 2009

Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance - Len Castle

Lopdell House Gallery, ISBN 978-0-95828-951-1, $135.00 hbk

Len Castle’s potting career, which started in 1947, spans the emergence, flourishing and subsequent transformation of the craft movement of the 20th century. His work epitomises its vitality, its deeply indigenous origins and the sophistication of its craftsmanship and artistry. He has been described as a ‘national treasure’.

ENVIRONMENT CATEGORY WINNER 2009

A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century  - Ian J Graham (editor)

Geological Society of New Zealand, ISBN 978-1-87748-000-3, $49.95 hbk

LIFESTYLE & CONTEMPORARY CULTURE CATEGORY WINNER 2009

Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking - Alexa Johnston

Penguin Group (NZ), ISBN 978-0-14300-863-7, $45.00 pbk

REFERENCE & ANTHOLOGY CATEGORY WINNER 2009

Collected Poems 1951-2006 - C.K. Stead

Auckland University Press, ISBN 978-1-86940-418-5, $59.99 hbk

MONTANA MEDAL WINNER FOR NON-FICTION 2009

Rita Angus: An Artist's Life - Jill Trevelyan

Te Papa Press, ISBN 978-1-877385-39-1, $69.99 hbk

NZSA BEST FIRST BOOK OF NON-FICTION 2009

Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand - Chris Brickell

Godwit, ISBN 978-1-86962-134-6, $49.99 pbk