Geoff Chapple

Truth lies somewhere - Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Vaughan Park Retreat Centre, Long Bay, Auckland (pictured below),  October 23 -25 2010

New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 2003

Deutz Medal For Fiction

The Shag Incident, Stephanie Johnson (Vintage)

Fiction runners-up

The Hopeful Traveller, Fiona Farrell (Vintage)
When Gravity Snaps, Owen Marshall (Vintage)

Montana Medal for Non Fiction

Wine Atlas of New Zealand, Michael Cooper (Hodder Moa Beckett)

Poetry

Playing God, Glenn Colquhoun (Steele Roberts)

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.