Jessie Mackay

Deutz Medal For Fiction
Fiction
Live Bodies Maurice Gee, (Penguin).

Montana Medal for Non Fiction
History & Biography
Dictionary of New Zealand English ed. Harry Orsman, (Oxford University Press)

Poetry
Shape-Shifter Hone Tuwhare, (Steele Roberts).

Illustrative Arts
Goldie Roger Blackley, (David Bateman).

 Environment & Heritage
Pick of the Bunch: New Zealand Wildflowers Peter Johnson, (Longacre Press).

Lives & Lifestyle
The Complete New Zealand Fisherman Geoff Thomas, (David Bateman).

Readers' Choice Award
New Zealand Historical Atlas
ed. Malcolm McKinnon, (David Bateman)

Best Review Page
The Evening Post

Reviewer of the Year
Graeme Lay

The New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards
Hubert Church Award for Fiction:
In a fishbone church Catherine Chidgey,( Victoria University Press).

Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry:
All Roads Lead to the Sea Kapka Kassabova, (Auckland University Press).

E H McCormick Award for Non-Fiction:
Olives: The new passion Genevieve Noser, (Penguin).

Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry
Fiction
The Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox, (Victoria University Press).

Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
Lifestyle
The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand, Heather Nicholson, (Auckland University Press).

History & Biography
Under the Bridge and Over the Moon, Kevin Ireland, (Vintage).

Poetry Award
Seeing You Asked, Vincent O'Sullivan, (VUP).

Illustrative Arts
100 New Zealand Craft Artists, Helen Schamroth, (Godwit).

Environment & Heritage
The Natural World of New Zealand Gerard Hutching, (Penguin).

Readers' Choice Award
The Vintner's Luck, Elizabeth Knox, (VUP).

Best Review Page
Landfall

Reviewer of the Year
Iain Sharp

The New Zealand Society of Author Best First Book Awards
Hubert Church Award for Fiction
Alpha Male William Brandt, (Victoria University Press).

Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry
Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars Kate Camp, (Victoria University Press).

E H McCormick Award for Non-Fiction
100 New Zealand Craft Artists Helen Schamroth, (Godwit).

Get Some - Sonja Yelich

Auckland University Press, ISBN 978-1-86940-423-9, $24.99 pbk

Edgar is a marine in bad need of a wash and a gun. The deeper he is lost running around the streets of Baghdad, the filthier he gets. get some follows Ed and the responses of his family to his tour of ‘doody’ – but other voices break through the perpetual static of gunfire and electronic noise. Sonja Yelich serves up a whirlwind of perspectives on the war and on contemporary American life.

New Zealand Book Awards - Winners 1997

Book of the Year/Cultural Heritage

The Story of Suzanne Aubert Jessie Munro, (Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books).

Fiction

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted Alan Duff, (Vintage).

Poetry

An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English ed. Jenny Bornholdt, Gregory O'Brien & Mark Williams, (Oxford University Press).