![]() It tells us of the past but is relevant to the present, when public debate feeds New Zealanders’ hunger to know how our country was formed," enthused Justice Reid. “ Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa is the fruit of close historical research and is accessible to a wide readership. Legendary historian Vincent O’Malley picked up the General Non-Fiction Award for his work, Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa.Ĭategory judging convenor Nicholas Reid says Vincent O’Malley’s book, published by Bridget Williams Books, meets all the criteria for a great work of non-fiction. O’Malley breaks through in Non-Fiction category Work by fellow finalists Qiane Matata-Sipu ( NUKU: Stories of 100 Indigenous Women), Lucy Mackintosh ( Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau), and Bridget Hackshaw ( The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble) made this category a nail-biter, all worth a splurge at your local bookstore. “This is valuable addition to our nation’s story and a great example of what historical enquiry and non-fiction publishing can be.” Beautifully illustrated and deeply researched, Dressed is the complete package,” Judge Clarke said. “Readers will find themselves transported to other worlds, populated by people, indigenous and immigrant, both heartachingly familiar and surprisingly exotic. Old School elegance takes out Illustrated Non-FictionĬlaire Regnault won the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction for the stunningly presented Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910.Ĭategory convenor Chanel Clarke (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Porou, Waikato Tainui) says even those who believe themselves to be without interest in either clothing or our history will be seduced by Dressed. And shout-outs to nominees Tayi Tibble ( Rangikura), Serie Barford ( Sleeping with Stones) and Anne Kennedy ( The Sea Walks into a Wall), whose impassioned recitations enthralled attendees. “Simply written, yet dramatic and powerfully eloquent, each poem in this book is a banger.”Īlso a banger? Justice Apirana Taylor’s thunderous speech as he presented the award. “Through her layering of art, re-imagining of historic moments and firm nods to poets past, Joanna Preston reminds us of Louise Gluck with her precise, evocative narratives, chiselled out of stone to reveal what was always there,” said Dame Koirala. Poetry category convenor Dame Saradha Koirala lauded Tumble as a celebration of poetry that incorporates free verse and traditional forms. Tumble, Joanna Preston’s second published collection, encompasses myth and magic, including Vikings, astronauts and fallen angels. “ Kurangaituku is dead good.” Joanna Preston wins Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry for Tumble Then, in his understated Lancastrian brogue, Kidd added the highest praise of all. “ Kurangaituku is poetic, intense, clever and sexy as hell. The ogress Kurangaituku tells us not only her side of the story but everything she knows about Te Ao Māori. “It’s an epic poem of a novel, resonant of Māori oral traditions, that gives a voice, form and a name to the bird-woman from the Māori myth. Ms Hereaka received the prize ahead of Gigi Fenster ( A Good Winter), Rebecca K Reilly ( Greta & Valdin), and Bryan Walpert ( Entanglement).Ĭonvenor of judges, Rob Kidd, said: “ Kurangaituku (Huia Publishers) is an extraordinary novel, unashamedly literary and utterly innovative. Wellington novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Pākehā) swept up the $60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for her book Kurangaituku, a richly imagined contemporary retelling of the traditional Te Arawa story Hatupatu and the Bird-Woman. ‘Intense, Clever and Sexy as Hell’ Novel Wins Country’s Richest Writing Prize Though this year’s ceremony was pandemically pared back, the joyousness of the occasion – a real-life, actual event! – was clear in every moment, every reading. Auckland's Q Theatre buzzed with words, soliloquies and frocks of rare fabulosity at the 2022 Royal Ockham New Zealand Book Awards on Wednesday.
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