New Zealand Post Book Awards

Join New Zealand's glittering literati for the biggest gala event on the literary calendar - the New Zealand Post Book Awards Ceremony:
6.30pm, Friday 27 August 2010
Langham Hotel, Auckland

Tickets to this glamorous event are available for the public to purchase for the first time. Brush shoulders with your favourite authors, hear the judges speak about the books selected, and be the first to hear the winners announced.

Tickets: $135 per person (includes pre-dinner drinks, and a three-course meal with wine)

Every year on National Poetry Day, New Zealanders around the country hold a series of public events and activities aiming to involve as many people as possible in celebrating the extraordinary world of poetry.

Here are some of the things that will be happening on Friday 30 July 2010:

The finalists for the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced!

Click below for more information on each finalist title.

Fiction, Poetry, General Non-fiction, Illustrated Non-fiction, Best First Book Award Winners

A Wellington writer’s first novel will go head-to-head with works by two of our most acclaimed authors as finalists in the country’s most prestigious literary honours, the inaugural New Zealand Post Book Awards.

Alison Wong’s As the Earth Turns Silver was selected by a judging panel of five for the Fiction category shortlist, along with award-winning author Fiona Farrell, for her novel Limestone, and award-winning short-story writer Owen Marshall for his collection, Living as a Moon.

New Zealand's national day of poetry, NZ Poetry Day, is a celebration of this country's unique and vibrant poetic voice - whether it is odes, myths and legends, serious social commentary or just plain good fun. Each year on NZ Poetry Day thousands of people gather throughout the country to listen, recite, read and participate in poetry related events and activities.

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NEW AWARDS DESERVE NEW MATERIAL
All of the New Zealand Post Book Awards display material has been redesigned with your bookshop and library in mind.

Discover the reading habits of the New Zealand Post Book Awards judges.

The New Zealand Post Book Awards celebrate excellence, identifying the very best books written by New Zealanders.

Get into the spirit of New Zealand Poetry Day and share a favourite poem! If there's a New Zealand poem you'd like to share, or maybe you'd like to share a poem of your own, let us know and we'll publish it here (with the author's consent, of course).

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