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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards | Christchurch City Libraries

Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry

Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction Award

General Non Fiction Award

Mūrau o te Tuhu – Māori Language Award

Mātāmua ko te Kupu! Ta Timoti Kāretu (Kotahi Rau Pukapuka, Auckland University Press)

MitoQ Best First Book Awards

The Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine by Monique Fiso (Godwit, Penguin Random House)

The Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry

I am a Human Being Jackson Nieuwland (Compound Press)

The Hubert Church Award for Fiction

Victory Park Rachel Kerr (Mākaro Press)

The E H McCormick Award for General Non-Fiction

Specimen: Personal Essays by Madison Hamill (Victoria University Press)

Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry

Illustrated Non-Fiction Award

General Non Fiction Award

MitoQ Best First Book Awards

The Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa Chris McDowall and Tim Denee (Massey University Press)

The Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry

Craven Jane Arthur (Victoria University Press)

The Hubert Church Award for Fiction

Auē Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press)

The E H McCormick Award for General Non-Fiction

Dead People I Have Known Shayne Carter (Victoria University Press)

Vincent O’Sullivan (Victoria University Press)

Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry

Illustrated Non-Fiction Award

Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non Fiction

Te Mūrau o te Tuhi – Māori Language Award

He Kupu Tuku Iho: Ko te Reo Māori te Tatau ki te Ao Timoti Kāretu and Wharehuia Milroy (Auckland University Press)

MitoQ Best First Book Awards

The Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

Whatever it Takes: Pacific Films and John O’Shea 1948-2000 John Reid (Victoria University Press)

The Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry

Poūkahangatus Tayi Tibble (Victoria University Press)

The Hubert Church Award for Fiction

The Sound of Breaking Glass Kirsten Warner (Mākaro Press)

The E H McCormick Award for General Non-Fiction

We Can Make a Life Chessie Henry (Victoria University Press)

The New Animals Pip Adam (Victoria University Press) Winner
Salt Picnic Patrick Evans (Victoria University Press)
Sodden Downstream Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence & Gibson)
Baby Annaleese Jochems (Victoria University Press)

Poetry Award

Night Horse Elizabeth Smither (Auckland University Press) Winner
Anchor Stone Tony Beyer (Cold Hub Press)
Rāwāhi Briar Wood (Anahera Press)
The Yield Sue Wootton (Otago University Press)

Illustrated Non-Fiction Award

Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins (Bridget Williams Books) Winner
Tōtara: A Natural and Cultural History Philip Simpson (Auckland University Press)
Gordon Walters: New Vision Zara Stanhope (commissioning editor), Lucy Hammonds, Laurence Simmons, Julia Waite (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki and Dunedin Public Art Gallery)
The Face of Nature: An Environmental History of the Otago Peninsula Jonathan West (Otago University Press)

Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non Fiction

Best first books

The Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

Caves: Exploring New Zealand’s Subterranean Wilderness Marcus Thomas and Neil Silverwood (Whio Publishing)

The Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry

Fully Clothed and So Forgetful Hannah Mettner (Victoria University Press)

The Hubert Church Award for Fiction

Baby Annaleese Jochems (Victoria University Press)

The E H McCormick Award for General Non-Fiction

Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize

Illustrated Non-fiction

Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction

Best first books

The Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

A Whakapapa of Tradition: 100 Years of Ngāti Porou Carving 1830-1930 Ngarino Ellis (Auckland University Press)

The Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry

Hera Lindsay Bird Hera Lindsay Bird (Victoria University Press)

The Hubert Church Award for Fiction

Black Ice Matter Gina Cole (Huia Publishers)

The E H McCormick Award for General Non-Fiction

My Father’s Island Adam Dudding (Victoria University Press)

The winners (including the four Best First Book Awards) were announced at a ceremony on Tuesday 10 May 2016, at the opening night event of the Auckland Writers Festival. The awards covered books published between 1 June 2014 and 21 December 2015. The overall winner received $50,000. Winners of the three category awards each received $10,000; the Māori Language Award $10,000; and each of the winners of the four Best First Book Awards, $2,500.

Fiction

Illustrated Non Fiction

General Non Fiction

Poetry

The Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

Te Ara Puoro: A Journey into the World of Māori Music Richard Nunns (Potton and Burton)

The Jessie Mackay Award for Poetry

How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes Chris Tse (Auckland University Press)

The Hubert Church Award for Fiction

The Invisible Mile David Coventry (Victoria University Press)

The E H McCormick Award for General Non-Fiction

Panguru and the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua Melissa Matutina Williams (Bridget Williams Books)

History of the New Zealand Book Awards

Before 1996, there were two major New Zealand literary prizes. They merged in 1996 to form the Montana New Zealand Book awards.

The New Zealand Book Awards ran from 1976-1995.

The other major award from 1968-1993 was the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards (formerly the Wattie Book Awards).

Montana took over sponsorship in 1994 and the awards became the Montana Book Awards (1994-1995).

In 1996, the Montana Book Awards merged with the New Zealand Book Awards to become the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The Montana New Zealand Book Awards ran from 1996-2009.

From 2010-2014 the Awards were sponsored by New Zealand Post. In 2015 Ockham assumed sponsorship of the Awards but no prizes were awarded that year.