Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry
Fiction
Harlequin Rex Owen Marshall (Vintage)
Fiction runners-up
Golden Deeds Catherine Chidgey (Victoria University Press)
Talking About O'Dwyer C.K.Stead (Penguin Books)
Montana Medal for Non Fiction
Illustrative Arts
The Art of Grahame Sydney (Grahame Sydney Longacre Press)
Poetry
The Lark Quartet Elizabeth Smither (Auckland University Press)
History & Biography
Kapiti Chris Maclean (The Whitcombe Press)
Environment
Classic Tramping in New Zealand Shaun Barnett & Rob Brown (Craig Potton Publishing)
Lifestyle
The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants Yvonne Cave & Valda Paddison (Godwit)
Readers' Choice Award
The Art of Grahame Sydney Grahame Sydney (Longacre Press)
New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards
Hubert Church Best First Book for Fiction
Stray Thoughts And Nosebleeds Duncan Sarkies (Victoria University Press)
Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry
The Art of Walking Upright Glenn Colquhoun (Steele Roberts)
E.H. McCormick Best First Book for Non-Fiction
Kava In The Blood Peter Thomson (Tandem Press)
A W Reed Lifetime Achievement Award
Allen Curnow
Review Pages/Section Of The Year Award
The Evening Post
Reviewer of the Year Award
Michael King