Awards News

Last year Chris Bourke took home the country’s top literary honour – the New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award – for his work Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. This year he heads up the judging panel for the same award.

A respected writer, reviewer, music historian and radio producer, Chris is well known as a former long-time producer for Radio New Zealand National’s Saturday Morning programme and as a staff writer and arts and books editor for print publications including The Listener.

Entries open today for the nation’s most prestigious book awards: the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards and the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012.

More than 2,000 entries are expected, from emerging and experienced authors across the country, but just a few will make it to the final shortlist.

Together the two awards reflect the diversity, depth, colour and flair of contemporary New Zealand writing.

Wellington, Te Papa (on the Marae) Thursday, 28 July, 12.15-1.45pm, Free entry.

Don’t miss the opportunity to meet the winning authors of the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards.They’ll be talking about their books, research, writing, new projects, what inspires them, and what books they’re reading. Authors will available to sign their books, which are also available to purchase at the event.

Time is flying and we are getting close to some very import dates!

Shortly after The Book Council appointed Paul Diamond to their board in 2010, they asked him their five easy questions so they could get to know him better.