Douglas Lilburn

New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 2007

Montana Medal For Fiction or Poetry

Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (Penguin Books)

Montana Medal for Non Fiction

Eagles Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand, Audrey Eagle (Te Papa Press)

Fiction

Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (Penguin Books)

Fiction runners-up

The Fainter, Damien Wilkins (Victoria University Press)
The Cowboy Dog, Nigel Cox (Victoria University Press)

Each year a panel of three judges is appointed for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The judges are supported by eight specialist category advisors and a Te Reo Māori advisor. The judges and advisors are chosen by the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Management Committee from a broad range of nominations put forward by literary and book trade organisations. Wherever possible one of the judges will be a practising writer.