New Zealand Post Book Awards

Background

Before 1996, there were two major New Zealand literary prizes, the New Zealand Book Awards (1973‐1995) and the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards (1968‐1993).

Montana took over the sponsorship of the Wattie Awards in 1994, and the Awards became the Montana Book Awards (1994‐1995). In 1996, the two Awards merged to form the Montana New Zealand Book Awards (1996‐2009). In 2010, sponsorship of the Awards was assumed by New Zealand Post.

The finalists for the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced!

FICTION CATEGORY

As the Earth Turns Silver

Alison Wong

Limestone

Fiona Farrell

Living as a Moon

Owen Marshall

POETRY CATEGORY

Just This

Brian Turner

The Lustre Jug

Bernadette Hall

The Tram Conductor’s Blue Cap

Michael Harlow

GENERAL NON-FICTION CATEGORY

Aphrodite’s Island

Anne Salmond

Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its Allies, 1939-1945

Gerald Hensley

Cone Ten Down: Studio pottery in New Zealand, 1945-1980

Moyra Elliott and Damian Skinner

Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921

Judith Binney

The Invention of New Zealand Art & National Identity, 1930-1970

Francis Pound

ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION CATEGORY

Art at Te Papa

William McAloon (editor)

Go Fish: Recipes and stories from the New Zealand Coast

Al Brown

Māori Architecture: From fale to wharenui and beyond

Deidre Brown

Marti Friedlander

Leonard Bell

Mrkusich: The Art of Transformation

Alan Wright and Edward Hanfling

BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD WINNERS 2010

NZSA HUBERT CHURCH BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTION AWARD WINNER

Relief

Anna Taylor

NZSA JESSIE MACKAY BEST FIRST BOOK OF POETRY AWARD WINNER

Fast Talking PI

Selina Tusitala Marsh

NZSA E.H. MCCORMICK BEST FIRST BOOK OF NON-FICTION AWARD WINNER

Trust: A True Story of Women & Gangs

Pip Desmond

PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD

The extremely popular Readers’ Choice Award is the public’s opportunity to vote for their favourite book of the 16 finalist titles, as selected by the judges, either online or by paper ballot. Voting opens every year with the public announcement of the finalist list.

To vote for the People's Choice Award winner, click here.

The Hunting of the Sock...

Ella Davey about to embark on the Red Sock Hunt in the Children's Library. Happy hunting Ella!

RED : Read Every Day!

In the Children's Library we’re seeing red these school holidays!!
Join in the fun…
 Face Painting - Tuesday mornings 10:30 - 11:30am @ Timaru Library
 Have a go at our RED Sock Hunt
 Come into the Library on Tuesdays or Thursdays wearing something red and you could win cool prizes
 Competitions (available at all libraries)
 Quiz
 Create a red book character
 Leadership competitions
 Poetry competition
 Who am I? quiz or colouring competition for younger children
And on Wednesday 7 July 10.30-11.30am @ Timaru Library you can
Meet a Firefighter!
Don't forget to join the 200+ awesome kids in the district who've signed up for the Hot Reads for Cool Nights Winter Reading Challenge! 
Plus there's Storytime every Friday 11.30-12 at Timaru Library
See you here!!!

New Zealand Poetry Day

National Poetry Day is a celebration of poetry in New Zealand. It’s a day which gives communities all over New Zealand an opportunity to enjoy the written word out loud. What makes the day work is a series of public events and activities that aim to involve as many people as possible in celebrating the extraordinary world of New Zealand poetry. Enter our New Zealand Day Poetry Competition, prizes will be awarded to selected poems and announced at our Poetry Day Readings on Friday 30th July in the Main Libarry. For more details email nigel.brown@timdc.govt.nz.

BNZ Literary Awards 2010

After 51 years, the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards are getting a facelift and are being renamed as the 'BNZ Literary Awards', with the Premier Award becoming the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award.

For over half a century BNZ has been proud to support New Zealand's preeminent Short Story writing competition, which was founded to acknowledge the work of Katherine Mansfield and celebrate New Zealand literature.

For many of New Zealand's famous writers, such as Frank Sargeson, Keri Hulme, Maurice Shadbolt, Charlotte Grimshaw and CK Stead, winning the main Award was where it all started. So make sure you send us your short story between 1 June and 23 July 2010. For more information visit the BNZ website here.

But wait there's more ...

A big thankyou to Bailey, Emily, Emma, Harrison, Kim, Mikayla and Tim for sharing their awesome work!

The posters