New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 2004

Deutz Medal For Fiction
Slow Water, Annamarie Jagose (Victoria University Press)

Fiction runners-up
The Scornful Moon, Maurice Gee (Penguin)
Iridescence, Peter Wells (Vintage)

Montana Medal for Non Fiction
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, Anne Salmond (Allen Lane/Penguin Books)

Poetry
Sing-song, Anne Kennedy (Auckland University Press)

History
The Trial of the Cannibal Dog, Anne Salmond (Allen Lane/Penguin Books)

Biography
Mason, Rachel Barrowman (Victoria University Press)

Environment
Deep New Zealand, Peter Batson (Canterbury University Press)

Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
Classic Fly Fishing, John Kent & David Hallett (Craig Potton Publishing)

Illustrative
Central, Arno Gasteiger (Viking)

Reference & Anthology
Whetu Moana, edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan (Auckland University Press)

Readers' Choice Award
The Penguin History of New Zealand, Michael King (Penguin)

Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction
Bloom, Kelly Ana Morey (Penguin)

Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry
The Adulterer's Bible, Cliff Fell (Victoria University Press)

E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction
Tai Tokerau Whakairo Rakau, Deidre Brown (Reed Publishing)

Review Page or Programme of the Year Award
The Listener

Reviewer of the Year Award
Michael King

A W Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature
Joy Cowley