Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry
Blindsight, Maurice Gee (Penguin Books)
Montana Medal for Non Fiction
Pohutukawa & Rata: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees, Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press)
Fiction
Blindsight, Maurice Gee (Penguin Books)
Fiction runners-up
Responsibility, Nigel Cox (Victoria University Press)
The Captive Wife, Fiona Kidman (Vintage)
Poetry
Lifted, Bill Manhire (Victoria University Press)
History
Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s-1950s, Rosemary McLeod (HarperCollins Publishers)
Biography
Dingle: Discovering the Sense in Adventure, Graeme Dingle (Craig Potton Publishing)
Environment
Pohutukawa & Rata: New Zealand's Iron-hearted Trees, Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press)
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
How to Look at a Painting, Justin Paton (Awa Press)
Illustrative
Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Hannah Holm & Lara Strongman (eds.) (Mountain View Publishing)
Reference & Anthology
Great Sporting Moments: The best of Sport magazine 1988-2004, Damien Wilkins (ed.) (Victoria University Press)
Readers' Choice Award
Blindsight, Maurice Gee (Penguin Books)
The Captive Wife, Fiona Kidman (Vintage)
Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction
A Red Silk Sea, Gillian Ranstead (Penguin Books)
Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry
Dream Fish Floating, Karlo Mila (Huia Publishers)
E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction
Pakeha and the Treaty: Why It's Our Treaty Too, Patrick Snedden (Random House New Zealand)
Review Page or Programme of the Year Award
Dominion Post
Reviewer of the Year Award
Jolisa Gracewood
