1998 Awards

1998 Winners - New Zealand Book Awards

Deutz Medal For Fiction
Fiction
Live Bodies Maurice Gee, (Penguin).

Montana Medal for Non Fiction
History & Biography
Dictionary of New Zealand English ed. Harry Orsman, (Oxford University Press)

Poetry
Shape-Shifter Hone Tuwhare, (Steele Roberts).

Illustrative Arts
Goldie Roger Blackley, (David Bateman).

 Environment & Heritage
Pick of the Bunch: New Zealand Wildflowers Peter Johnson, (Longacre Press).

Lives & Lifestyle
The Complete New Zealand Fisherman Geoff Thomas, (David Bateman).

Readers' Choice Award
New Zealand Historical Atlas
ed. Malcolm McKinnon, (David Bateman)

Best Review Page
The Evening Post

Reviewer of the Year
Graeme Lay

The New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards
Hubert Church Award for Fiction:
In a fishbone church Catherine Chidgey,( Victoria University Press).

Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry:
All Roads Lead to the Sea Kapka Kassabova, (Auckland University Press).

E H McCormick Award for Non-Fiction:
Olives: The new passion Genevieve Noser, (Penguin).