Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry
Tu, Patricia Grace (Penguin Books)
Montana Medal for Non Fiction
At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins (Godwit)
Fiction
Tu, Patricia Grace (Penguin Books)
Fiction runners-up
Mansfield, C K Stead (Vintage)
Tarzan Presley, Nigel Cox (Victoria University Press)
Poetry
Nice morning for it, Adam, Vincent O'Sullivan (Victoria University Press)
History
At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins (Godwit)
Biography
Chronicle of the Unsung, Martin Edmond (Auckland University Press)
Environment
Tiritiri Matangi: A Model of Conservation, Anne Rimmer (Tandem Press)
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
Hip Hop Music in Aotearoa, Gareth Shute (Reed Publishing)
Illustrative
Handboek: Ans Westra Photographs, Luit Bieringa (BWX)
Reference & Anthology
The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary , edited by Tony Deverson & Graeme Kennedy (Oxford University Press)
Readers' Choice Award
Made in Morocco, Julie Le Clerc & John Bougen (Penguin Books)
Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction
My Real Life and Other Stories, Julian Novitz (Vintage)
Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry
Clung, Sonja Yelich (Auckland University Press)
E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction
Ghost Dance, Douglas Wright (Penguin Books)
Review Page or Programme of the Year Award
North & South
Reviewer of the Year Award
Tony Simpson