New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 2006

Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry
Blindsight, Maurice Gee (Penguin Books)

Montana Medal for Non Fiction
Pohutukawa & Rata: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees, Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press)

Fiction
Blindsight, Maurice Gee (Penguin Books)

Fiction runners-up
Responsibility, Nigel Cox (Victoria University Press)
The Captive Wife, Fiona Kidman (Vintage)

Poetry
Lifted, Bill Manhire (Victoria University Press)

History
Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s-1950s, Rosemary McLeod (HarperCollins Publishers)

Biography
Dingle: Discovering the Sense in Adventure, Graeme Dingle (Craig Potton Publishing)

Environment
Pohutukawa & Rata: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees, Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press)

Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
How to Look at a Painting, Justin Paton (Awa Press)

Illustrative
Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Hannah Holm & Lara Strongman (eds.) (Mountain View Publishing)

Reference & Anthology
Great Sporting Moments: The best of Sport magazine 1988-2004, Damien Wilkins (ed.) (Victoria University Press)

Readers' Choice Award
Blindsight, Maurice Gee (Penguin Books)
The Captive Wife, Fiona Kidman (Vintage)

Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction
A Red Silk Sea, Gillian Ranstead (Penguin Books)

Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry
Dream Fish Floating, Karlo Mila (Huia Publishers)

E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction
Pakeha and the Treaty: Why It's Our Treaty Too, Patrick Snedden (Random House New Zealand)

Review Page or Programme of the Year Award
Dominion Post

Reviewer of the Year Award
Jolisa Gracewood