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New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 2009

4 May 2010

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

Winners and Finalists 2008

28 Sep 2011

Book of the Year
Snake and Lizard, Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop (Gecko Press)

Best First Book
Out of the Egg, Tina Matthews (Walker Books)

Children's Choice
The King’s Bubbles, Ruth Paul (Scholastic New Zealand)

Young Adult Fiction Winner
Salt, Maurice Gee (Penguin)

Honour Award
The Sea-wreck Stranger, Anna Mackenzie (Longacre Press)

Junior Fiction Winner
Snake and Lizard, Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop (Gecko Press)

Picture Book Winner
Tahi – One Lucky Kiwi, Melanie Drewery, Ali Teo & John O’Reilly (Random House)

 Honour Award
To the Harbour, Stanley Palmer (Lopdell House Gallery)

Non-fiction Winner
Which New Zealand Spider? Andrew Crowe (Penguin)

Honour Award
Reaching the Summit, Alexa Johnston & David Larsen (Penguin)

Finalists

  • Salt, Maurice Gee (Penguin)
  • The Sea-wreck Stranger, Anna Mackenzie (Longacre Press)
  • Tomorrow All Will Be Beautiful, Brigid Lowry (Allen & Unwin)
  • The Transformation of Minna Hargreaves, Fleur Beale (Random House)
  • Zillah, Penelope Todd (Longacre Press)
  • Dead Dan's Dee, Phyllis Johnston (Longacre Press)
  • The Dumpster Saga, Craig Harrison (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • The Mad Tadpole Adventure, Melanie Drewery & Jenny Cooper (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • My Story: Sitting on the Fence, Bill Nagelkerke (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Snake and Lizard, Joy Cowley & Gavin Bishop (Gecko Press)
  • The King’s Bubbles, Ruth Paul, (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Out of the Egg, Tina Matthews (Walker Books)
  • Rats! Gavin Bishop (Random House)
  • Tahi – One Lucky Kiwi, Melanie Drewery, Ali Teo & John O’Reilly (Random House)
  • To the Harbour, Stanley Palmer (Lopdell House Gallery)
  • A Mini Guide to the Identification of New Zealand Land Birds, Andrew Crowe & Dave Gunson (Penguin)
  • Reaching the Summit, Alexa Johnston & David Larsen (Penguin)
  • Weather Watch New Zealand, Sandra Carrod, Karsten Schneider & Richard Gunther (Reed New Zealand)
  • What is a fish? Feana Tu'akoi (Scholastic New Zealand)
  • Which New Zealand Spider? Andrew Crowe (Penguin)

Making a Book Step Five: Sales, Marketing, Publicity: selling the book

8 Sep 2011

Literary events to reinvigorate Christchurch

18 Jul 2011

Bronze Premier New Zealand Bestsellers

29 Jul 2010

Books become Premier New Zealand Bestsellers when they achieve outstanding sales within New Zealand.

Bronze bestsellers are those that have lifetime sales of 5,000 (fiction titles), 1,000 (poetry sales), 10,000 (non-fiction sales) or 7,000 (childrens and teens sales).

Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking

5 Oct 2009

LIFESTYLE & CONTEMPORARY CULTURE CATEGORY WINNER 2009

Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking - Alexa Johnston

Penguin Group (NZ), ISBN 978-0-14300-863-7, $45.00 pbk

Awards Ceremony 2008

28 Sep 2009

The awards ceremony for the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards was held on the evening of Wednesday 21 May at the Wellington Town Hall.

 

Enchanted Forest

The entrance to the Wellington Town Hall was transformed into an enchanted forest, complete with toadstools, fairylights and a pathway made from the jacket covers of the 2008 finalist titles.

 

Perkins Writes Story of her Wife to Win Montana Medal

25 Sep 2009

Perkins Writes Story of her Wife to Win Montana Medal

Emily Perkins has won the 2009 Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry for her taut and chilling book, Novel About My Wife.

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Fiction Finalist Makes History

2 Jun 2009

Montana New Zealand Book Awards Fiction Finalist Makes History

Debut novelist, Eleanor Catton is a finalist in this year’s Montana New Zealand Book Awards for her book, The Rehearsal; a work that has launched her onto the international stage, being snapped up by major-league publishers in the US and UK.