Steven Braunias
is the recipient of one of two Nigel Cox Awards given out over the Auckland
Writers Festival Weekend. The second award is yet to be announced but will take
place on Sunday
At the opening
night of the festival Nic Low coined a new word - fraudelescense to describe
the luminous quality of feeling like a fraud.
Steve Braunias
is a fraudelescent detector but there is another new word in that sentence.
The word
Braunias has become a byline for brilliant totally bipartisan reporting.
In James Wood’s marvellous memoir of his life as a book critic he says “In ordinary life we don’t spend very long looking at things
or at the natural world or at people but writers do. It is what literature has
in common with painting, drawing, photography” .
Braunias looks
and looks and then he writes. He’s a miniaturist, a portraitist and
an archivist. We love the way he notices just how the paint has dried and for
that and for the reason that we hope to read more of him between hard covers we’d like to present him with the Nigel Cox Award.
The Nigel Cox
Award recognises excellence in writing and is awarded by Susanna Andrew and Jo
McColl from Unity Books. Past recipients are Geoff Cochrane, Bill Manhire and
Anne Kennedy.
Winners receive
one Thousand dollars worth of Book vouchers from Unity Books
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