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The biggest event on the New Zealand publishing calendar is arguably the presentation of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and this year a stellar selection of titles from our publishers were honoured at the awards.
In the Best First Book section, He Puāwai won for illustrated non-fiction and No Good won the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry; both titles from Auckland University Press. Pastoral Care by John Prins and published by Otago University Press won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction.
The Mūrau o te Tuhi – Māori Language Award, was won by Te Āhua o ngā Kupu Whakaari a Te Kooti, again from AUP.
The General Non-Fiction Award was won by Tina Makereti’s beautiful collection of essay’s This Compulsion In Us, her first book of non-fiction, published by THWUP.
The winner of the BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction was the excellent Mr Ward’s Map by Elizabeth Cox, published by MUP.
The Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry was a hotly contested category this year, but was won by Nafanua Purcell Kersel for her debut collection Black Sugarcane, published by THWUP.
And last but by no means least, the most prestigious award of the night, The Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, was won by Ingrid Horrocks for her debut collection of stories, All Her Lives. The win rounded out a very successful night for her publisher Te Herenga Waka University Press.
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