Three of New Zealand’s finest writers, Owen Marshall,
Michele Leggott and Martin Edmond, will receive the 2013 Prime Minister’s
Awards for Literary Achievement, Creative New Zealand announced today.
Each will be awarded $60,000 in recognition of their outstanding
contribution to New Zealand literature. Owen Marshall will be honoured for
fiction, Michele Leggott for poetry and Martin Edmond for non-fiction.
In congratulating the winners, the Minister for Arts,
Culture and Heritage, Hon Chris Finlayson, said: “Last week, the excitement and
export potential of New Zealand literature were obvious when Eleanor Catton
became the youngest writer ever to win the Man Booker Prize. Every year, the
Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement reward our most committed
writers in three genres, and make clear the Government’s on-going commitment to
creating our national literature.”
The Awards are
administered by Creative New Zealand. Arts Council Chairman, Dr Dick
Grant, also congratulated the writers. “These awards recognise the rich
contribution New Zealand writers make to our artistic life. Each year, they
serve to underscore the extraordinary quality and variety of our literature.”
The writers will receive their awards in a ceremony held at
Premier House, Wellington, on Tuesday 29 October.
The 2013 Creative New Zealand Michael King
Writer’s Fellowship winner, Fiona Farrell, will also be honoured at the ceremony.
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