Congratulations to the winners announced tonight at a gala dinner ceremony at Auckland War Memorial Museum. The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi (Longacre Press) won the Readers’ Choice Award.
Fiction and winner of Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry: Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins (Allen & Unwin)
Runners up:
The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi (Longacre Press)
Acid Song by Bernard Beckett (Longacre Press)
Poetry: The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt (Victoria University Press)
Biography and winner of Montana Medal for Non-Fiction: Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press)
Environment: A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century edited by Ian Graham (Geological Society of New Zealand)
History: Buying the Land, Selling the Land by Richard Boast (Victoria University Press)
Illustrative: Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance by Len Castle (Lopdell House Gallery)
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture: Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston (Penguin Group NZ)
Reference & Anthology: Collected Poems 1951-2006 by CK Stead (Auckland University Press)
Te Reo Māori: He Pātaka Kupu te kai a te rangatira, (A Storehouse of Words – the food of chiefs)
New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards
For media reactions see:
- Emily Perkins wins Montana Medal tvnz.co.nz
- Writer ‘at height of her powers’ nzherald.co.nz
And it looks like Robyn (who is at the ceremony tonight) has broken her hoodoo and picked some winners this time!