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New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 2009

Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry
Fiction category winner

Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins (Bloomsbury)

Fiction runners-up
The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi (Longacre Press)
Acid Song by Bernard Beckett (Longacre Press)

Poetry category winner
The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt (Victoria University Press)

Montana Medal for Non-Fiction winner
Biography category winner

Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press)

Environment category winner
A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century edited by Ian J. Graham (Geological Society of New Zealand)

History category winner
Buying the Land, Selling the Land by Richard Boast (Victoria University Press)

Reference and Anthology category winner
Collected Poems 1951–2006 by CK Stead (Auckland University Press)

Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture category winner
Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston (Penguin Group New Zealand)

Illustrative category winner
Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance by Len Castle (Lopdell House Gallery)

Māori Language Award
He Pātaka Kupu te kai a te rangatira by Maori Language Commission (Raupo)

NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Victoria University Press)

NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry
Everything Talks by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press)

NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction
Mates & Lovers: A History of Gay New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Godwit)

BPANZ Reviewer of the Year Award
New Zealand Listener reviewer David Eggleton

BPANZ Best Review Page or Programme Award
New Zealand Listener

Auckland University Press sells international rights to Science on Ice

The success of last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair continues for Auckland University Press with the sales of rights to Veronika Meduna’s Science on Ice: Discovering the Secrets of Antarctica to CSIRO and Yale University Press.

Science on Ice is an engaging account of how scientists are tackling some of the biggest questions out there – climate change, the origins of life, the big bang – down in Antarctica.

Last Year’s Supreme Book Award Winner is This Year’s Top Judge

Last year Chris Bourke took home the country’s top literary honour – the New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award – for his work Blue Smoke: the Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964. This year he heads up the judging panel for the same award.

A respected writer, reviewer, music historian and radio producer, Chris is well known as a former long-time producer for Radio New Zealand National’s Saturday Morning programme and as a staff writer and arts and books editor for print publications including The Listener.