Fiona Mackie, Kathy Aloniu and
Melinda Szymanik have been appointed as judges of the 2016 New Zealand Book
Awards for Children and Young Adults.
The judging team will
deliberate over an expected 150 entries in five categories: Picture Book,
Illustration, Junior Fiction, Non-fiction and Young Adult Fiction. They will
select five finalists, then a winner in each category.
Te Rangi Rangi Tangohau, Lawren
Matrix, and Mereana Taungapeau have been appointed as judges for Te Kura
Pounamu – the award that recognises and celebrates books written or translated
into te reo Māori.
The supreme winner, drawn from
the winners of the six categories, will be declared the 2016 Margaret Mahy Book
of the Year.
Between them the judges have
huge experience of reading, enjoying and working with books for children and
young adults.
“The New Zealand Book Awards
Trust is delighted to have such excellent judges for the 2016 awards,” says its
chair Nicola Legat. “These judges stand out as having remarkable experience and
expertise across many aspects of children’s literature.”
The finalist authors in the
awards will embark upon a nationwide author tour, in the week prior to the
awards being announced at a ceremony to be held in Wellington in August.
The New Zealand Book Awards for
Children and Young Adults is sponsored by Creative New Zealand, Hell Pizza,
Book Tokens Ltd and Copyright Licensing Limited New Zealand (CLLNZ). They are
also supported by the Fernyhough Education Foundation and Nielsen Bookdata. The
awards are administered for the New Zealand Book Awards Trust by the New
Zealand Book Council.
To find out more about the New
Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, please visit http://bit.ly/1N779df.
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