New Zealand Book Award

Other Names: New Zealand Book Award for Fiction, New Zealand Book Award Non Fiction
55 Works / 107 Items 6,188 Books 149 Reviews 4.0
The New Zealand Book Awards ran from 1976 to 1995 when they merged with the Montana Book Awards to form what is now the country's single set of national awards, the Montana New Zealand Book show more Awards. From 1976 to 1979 the awards were given in three categories, Poetry, Fiction, and Non-Fiction. In 1981 a new category, Book Production, was added. In many years more than one award was given in a category. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (53), Shortlist (1), No Stage (53)
Categories:
All, Fiction (40), Non Fiction (36), Poetry (30), No Category (1)
Years:
All, 2016 (1), 1995 (4), 1994 (4), 1993 (6), 1992 (5), 1991 (6), 1990 (7), 1989 (6), 1988 (6), 1987 (6), 1986 (6), 1985 (6), 1984 (6), 1983 (4), 1982 (4), 1981 (6), 1980 (6), 1979 (4), 1978 (4), 1977 (4), 1976 (6)

Winner 53

WorkCategoryYear
The Singing Whakapapa by C. K. SteadFiction1995
Accidental Life by Phoebe Churchill MeikleNon Fiction1995
The Miserables by Damien WilkinsFiction1994
Te Wai Pounamu, the Greenstone Island: a History of the Southern Maori during the European Colonization of New Zealand by Harry EvisonNon Fiction1994
The Skinny Louie Book by Fiona FarrellFiction1993
Ettie: a Life of Ettie Rout by Jane TolertonNon Fiction1993
Beyond: Poems by Brian TurnerPoetry1993
Dangerous Desires by Peter WellsFiction1992
Two worlds : first meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772 by Anne SalmondNon Fiction1992
Milky Way Bar by Bill ManhirePoetry1992
The Burning Boy by Maurice GeeFiction1991
The life of James K. Baxter by Frank McKayNon Fiction1991
Berlin Diary by Cilla McQueenPoetry1991
Visitors by John CrannaFiction1990
Born to New Zealand: a Biography of Jane Maria Atkinson by Frances PorterNon Fiction1990
A Pattern of Marching by Elizabeth SmitherPoetry1990
The Carpathians by Janet FrameFiction1989
Tarawera: the Volcanic Eruption of 10 June 1886 by R. F. KeamNon Fiction1989
Benzina by Cilla McQueenPoetry1989
The Book of Secrets by Fiona KidmanFiction1988
Seven Lives on Salt River by Dick ScottNon Fiction1988
All Cretans are Liars and Other Poems by Anne FrenchPoetry1988
Potiki by Patricia GraceFiction1987
Head and Shoulders by Virginia MyersNon Fiction1987
The Loop in Lone Kauri Road by Allen CurnowPoetry1987
People of the Long Water by Peter HooperFiction1986
The Envoy from Mirror City by Janet FrameNon Fiction1986
Stories about Wooden Keyboards by Kendrick SmithymanPoetry1986
Disorderly conduct by Marilyn DuckworthFiction1985
Verdict on Erebus by Peter MahonNon Fiction1985
Zoetropes: Poems 1972-82 by Bill ManhirePoetry1985
The Bone People by Keri HulmeFiction1984
An Angel at my Table by Janet FrameNon Fiction1984
Selected Poems by Fleur AdcockPoetry1984
Other Halves by Sue McCauleyFiction1983
You Will Know When You Get There by Allen CurnowPoetry1983
Meg by Maurice GeeFiction1982
Collected Poems by Alistair Te Ariki CampbellPoetry1982
The Lovelock Version by Maurice ShadboltFiction1981
The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Antony AlpersNon Fiction1981
Wall by Michael JacksonPoetry1981
Living in the Maniototo by Janet FrameFiction1980
I Passed This Way by Sylvia Ashton-WarnerNon Fiction1980
An Incorrigible Music: A Sequence of Poems by Allen CurnowPoetry1980
Plumb by Maurice GeeFiction1979
Trade, growth, and anxiety : New Zealand beyond the welfare state by S. FranklinNon Fiction1979
The Time of Achamoth by M. K. JosephFiction1978
Te Puea: A Life by Michael KingNon Fiction1978
Dick Seddon's Great Dive by Ian WeddeFiction1977
Walter Nash by Keith SinclairNon Fiction1977
A Glorious Morning, Comrade by Maurice GeeFiction1976
Traditional Songs of the Maori by Mervyn McLeanNon Fiction1976
Fires and patterns by Louis JohnsonPoetry1976

Shortlist 1

No Stage 53

WorkCategoryYear
Coming Rain by Stephen DaisleyFiction2016
The Singing Whakapapa by C. K. SteadFiction1995
Accidental Life by Phoebe Churchill MeikleNon Fiction1995
The Miserables by Damien WilkinsFiction1994
Te Wai Pounamu, the Greenstone Island: a History of the Southern Maori during the European Colonization of New Zealand by Harry EvisonNon Fiction1994
The Skinny Louie Book by Fiona FarrellFiction1993
Ettie: a Life of Ettie Rout by Jane TolertonNon Fiction1993
Beyond: Poems by Brian TurnerPoetry1993
Two worlds : first meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772 by Anne SalmondNon Fiction1992
Milky Way Bar by Bill ManhirePoetry1992
The Burning Boy by Maurice GeeFiction1991
The life of James K. Baxter by Frank McKayNon Fiction1991
Berlin Diary by Cilla McQueenPoetry1991
Visitors by John CrannaFiction1990
Born to New Zealand: a Biography of Jane Maria Atkinson by Frances PorterNon Fiction1990
A Pattern of Marching by Elizabeth SmitherPoetry1990
The Carpathians by Janet FrameFiction1989
Tarawera: the Volcanic Eruption of 10 June 1886 by R. F. KeamNon Fiction1989
Benzina by Cilla McQueenPoetry1989
The Book of Secrets by Fiona KidmanFiction1988
Seven Lives on Salt River by Dick ScottNon Fiction1988
All Cretans are Liars and Other Poems by Anne FrenchPoetry1988
Potiki by Patricia GraceFiction1987
Head and Shoulders by Virginia MyersNon Fiction1987
The Loop in Lone Kauri Road by Allen CurnowPoetry1987
People of the Long Water by Peter HooperFiction1986
The Envoy from Mirror City by Janet FrameNon Fiction1986
Stories about Wooden Keyboards by Kendrick SmithymanPoetry1986
Disorderly conduct by Marilyn DuckworthFiction1985
Verdict on Erebus by Peter MahonNon Fiction1985
Zoetropes: Poems 1972-82 by Bill ManhirePoetry1985
The Bone People by Keri HulmeFiction1984
An Angel at my Table by Janet FrameNon Fiction1984
Selected Poems by Fleur AdcockPoetry1984
Other Halves by Sue McCauleyFiction1983
You Will Know When You Get There by Allen CurnowPoetry1983
Meg by Maurice GeeFiction1982
Collected Poems by Alistair Te Ariki CampbellPoetry1982
The Lovelock Version by Maurice ShadboltFiction1981
The Life of Katherine Mansfield by Antony AlpersNon Fiction1981
Wall by Michael JacksonPoetry1981
Living in the Maniototo by Janet FrameFiction1980
I Passed This Way by Sylvia Ashton-WarnerNon Fiction1980
An Incorrigible Music: A Sequence of Poems by Allen CurnowPoetry1980
Plumb by Maurice GeeFiction1979
Trade, growth, and anxiety : New Zealand beyond the welfare state by S. FranklinNon Fiction1979
The Time of Achamoth by M. K. JosephFiction1978
Te Puea: A Life by Michael KingNon Fiction1978
Dick Seddon's Great Dive by Ian WeddeFiction1977
Walter Nash by Keith SinclairNon Fiction1977
A Glorious Morning, Comrade by Maurice GeeFiction1976
Traditional Songs of the Maori by Mervyn McLeanNon Fiction1976
Fires and patterns by Louis JohnsonPoetry1976

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