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The five members of this year’s judging panel, charged with identifying the country’s best books published in 2010, bring with them wide-ranging talents and celebrated literary nous.

ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION FINALIST

Māori Architecture: From fale to wharenui and beyond
Deidre Brown
Raupo, Penguin Group (NZ)
ISBN 9780143011125
RRP $70.00

Māori Architecture charts, for the first time, the genesis and form of indigenous buildings in Aotearoa New Zealand. It explores the vast array of Māori-designed structures and spaces – how they evolved over time, and how they tell the story of an ever-changing people. The book looks at facets of early Polynesian settlement through to contemporary architecture.

FICTION FINALIST

As the Earth Turns Silver
Alison Wong
Penguin Group (NZ)
ISBN 9780143011675
RRP $37.00

From the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, from China to New Zealand – a story of two families. Yung faces a new land that does not welcome the Chinese. Alone, Katherine struggles to raise her children and find her place in the world. In a climate of hostility towards the foreign newcomers, Katherine and Yung embark on a poignant and far-reaching love affair.

Ceremony 2009

The 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Ceremony was held in Auckland, at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on the evening of Monday 27 July 2009.

View a selection of photos from the ceremony in the gallery below.

Tickets to the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards ceremony will be available to purchase through Booksellers New Zealand mid-2010.

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).

Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry
Fiction
Harlequin Rex Owen Marshall (Vintage)

Fiction runners-up
Golden Deeds Catherine Chidgey (Victoria University Press)
Talking About O'Dwyer C.K.Stead (Penguin Books)

Montana Medal for Non Fiction
Illustrative Arts
The Art of Grahame Sydney (Grahame Sydney Longacre Press)

Poetry
The Lark Quartet Elizabeth Smither (Auckland University Press)

History & Biography
Kapiti Chris Maclean (The Whitcombe Press)

Environment
Classic Tramping in New Zealand Shaun Barnett & Rob Brown (Craig Potton Publishing)

Lifestyle
The Gardener's Encyclopaedia of New Zealand Native Plants Yvonne Cave & Valda Paddison (Godwit)

Readers' Choice Award
The Art of Grahame Sydney Grahame Sydney (Longacre Press)

New Zealand Society of Authors Best First Book Awards
Hubert Church Best First Book for Fiction
Stray Thoughts And Nosebleeds Duncan Sarkies (Victoria University Press)

Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry
The Art of Walking Upright Glenn Colquhoun (Steele Roberts)

E.H. McCormick Best First Book for Non-Fiction
Kava In The Blood Peter Thomson (Tandem Press)

A W Reed Lifetime Achievement Award
Allen Curnow

Review Pages/Section Of The Year Award
The Evening Post

Reviewer of the Year Award
Michael King

Deutz Medal For Fiction or Poetry
Fiction
The Book of Fame, Lloyd Jones (Penguin Books)

Fiction runners-up
The Curative, Charlotte Randall (Penguin Books)
Nineteen Widows Under Ash, Damien Wilkins (Victoria University Press)

Montana Medal for Non Fiction
Wrestling With The Angel: A Life of Janet Frame, Michael King (Viking)

Poetry
The Bells of St Babel's, Allen Curnow (Auckland University Press)

History & Biography
Parihaka: The Art of Passive Resistance, edited by Te Miringa Hohaia, Gregory O'Brien & Lara Strongman (City Gallery Wellington, the Trustees of Parihaka Pa and Victoria University Press)

Environment
Dancing Leaves: The Story of New Zealand's Cabbage Tree, Ti Kouka, Philip Simpson (Canterbury University Press)

Lifestyle
Fresh, Julie Biuso & Ian Batchelor (photographer) (New Holland Publishers)

Illustrative Arts
Ralph Hotere: Black Light, edited by Ian Wedde (Te Papa Press & Dunedin Public Art Gallery)

Readers' Choice Award
Wrestling With The Angel: A Life of Janet Frame, Michael King (Viking)

Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction
Emerald Budgies, Karyn Hay (Vintage)

Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry
Animals Indoors, Stephanie de Montalk (Victoria University Press)

E.H. McCormick Best First Book of Non-Fiction
Pukaki: A Comet Returns, Paul Tapsell (Reed Publishing)

A W Reed Lifetime Achievement Award
Dame Fiona Kidman

Review Pages/Section Of The Year Award
The Evening Post

Reviewer of the Year Award
David Eggleton