New Zealand Post Book Awards

Reading after hours with the 2010 judges

8 Feb 2010

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

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Experienced Judging Panel Leads New Chapter in New Zealand Post Book Awards

About the NZ Post Book Awards

20 Oct 2009

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

Share a Poem

20 Oct 2009

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).

 

NZ Poetry Day

5 Oct 2009

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.

Experienced Judging Panel Leads New Chapter in New Zealand Post Book Awards

20 Jan 2010

The judges selected for the inaugural New Zealand Post Book Awards bring with them a wealth of literary expertise as they set about choosing the country’s best books published in 2009.

This year sees an increase from three to five judges as part of a new, streamlined structure of the country’s premier book awards.

Nationwide search now on for the best books of 2009

9 Oct 2009

Entries are now open for the inaugural New Zealand Post Book Awards 2010. These Awards celebrate excellence, identifying the very best books written by New Zealanders, published in 2009.

How to enter the Awards
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Novel About My Wife

9 Oct 2009

MONTANA MEDAL WINNER - FICTION 2009

Novel About My Wife - Emily Perkins

Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-074759-650-9  $27.99 pbk

Awards Ceremony 2009

5 Oct 2009

Ceremony 2009

The 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Ceremony was held in Auckland, at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on the evening of Monday 27 July 2009.

View a selection of photos from the ceremony in the gallery below.

Tickets to the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards ceremony will be available to purchase through Booksellers New Zealand mid-2010.

New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 2004

5 Oct 2009

Montana 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)

New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 2008

5 Oct 2009

Montana New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 2008

Montana Medal For Fiction or Poetry

Opportunity, Charlotte Grimshaw (Random House NZ)

Montana Medal for Non-fiction

Wetlands of New Zealand, Janet Hunt (Random House NZ)

Fiction

Opportunity, Charlotte Grimshaw (Random House NZ)

Fiction runner-up

Edwin & Matilda, Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Group NZ)