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.

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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.

New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards Ceremony 2010

Fluffy clouds and high flying pastel balloons as table centrepieces set the ‘power of the imagination’ theme for this year’s New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards 2010. It was an elegant setting with guests sitting around tables, but as always the warmth of the children’s literature community gave the event a friendly atmosphere.

The winners of the 2010 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards were announced at an Awards Ceremony in Auckland on Wednesday evening, 19 May.  

NON-FICTION CATEGORY AWARD WINNER

Towns and cities all over New Zealand will come alive with books during festival week this year (10-19 May 2010) as some of the country’s best authors and illustrators visit in celebration of this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards

Literary Legends Mahy and Cowley Finalists in the 2010 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards

Books by two of New Zealand’s most revered children’s writers – Margaret Mahy and Joy Cowley – feature in this year’s New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards finalist line-up.

Cowley’s Cowshed Christmas, illustrated by Gavin Bishop, and Mahy’s The Word Witch, edited by Tessa Duder and illustrated by David Elliot, are both finalists in the Picture Book Category.

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