Forty books traversing the cultural, historic, artistic and
social landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand have made the longlist for the
prestigious Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today.
Ten books are longlisted in each of the four awards’
categories – fiction, general non-fiction, illustrated non-fiction and
poetry. Together, they offer riches from both literary luminaries and our
rising stars.
New Zealand Book Awards Trust chair Nicola Legat says the
Awards received a large number of entries again this year and the standard was
extremely high across all categories. “Clearly New Zealand publishing, and
indeed our literature, is in excellent health. What to read over summer? Look
no further than these 40 fine books."
Fiction (The Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize):
·
The New Animals by Pip Adam (Victoria University Press)
·
The Beat of the Pendulum by Catherine
Chidgey (Victoria University Press)
·
The Earth Cries Out by Bonnie Etherington (Vintage,
Penguin Random House)
·
Salt Picnic by Patrick Evans (Victoria
University Press)
·
Sodden Downstream by Brannavan Gnanalingam (Lawrence
& Gibson)
·
Heloise by Mandy Hager (Penguin Random House)
·
Iceland by Dominic Hoey (Steele Roberts Aotearoa)
·
Baby by Analeese Jochems (Victoria University
Press)
·
Tess by Kirsten McDougall (Victoria University
Press)
·
Five Strings by Apirana Taylor (Anahera Press)
General Non-Fiction (The Royal Society Te Apārangi
Award):
·
Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of
the King Country, 1864-1885 by Michael Belgrave (Auckland University Press)
·
Tāngata Ngāi Tahu: People of Ngāi Tahu edited
by Helen Brown and Takerei Norton (Te Rūnanga Ngāi Tahu and Bridget Williams
Books)
·
Fearless: The Extraordinary Untold Story of
New Zealand’s Great War Airmen by Adam Claasen (Massey University Press)
·
Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the
Second World War by Stevan Eldred-Grigg with Hugh Eldred-Grigg (Otago
University Press)
·
The 9th Floor: Conversations with
Five New Zealand Prime Ministers by Guyon Espiner and Tim Watkin (Bridget
Williams Books)
·
Cleansing the Colony: Transporting Convicts
from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land by Kristyn Harman (Otago University
Press)
·
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds
by Anne Salmond (Auckland University Press)
·
Drawn Out: A Seriously Funny Memoir
by Tom Scott (Allen & Unwin NZ)
·
Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a
Lost Father by Diana Wichtel (Awa Press)
·
A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine
Mansfield’s Wellington by Redmer Yska (Otago University Press)
Illustrated Non-Fiction:
·
New China Eyewitness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley
and the Art of Museum Diplomacy edited by James Beattie and Richard Bullen
(Canterbury University Press)
·
Strangers Arrive: Emigrés and the Arts in New
Zealand, 1930-1980 by Leonard Bell (Auckland University Press)
·
Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of
New Zealand’s Great War by Chris Bourke (Auckland University Press)
·
Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New
Zealand by Chris Brickell (Auckland University Press)
·
Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds by Alison
Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins (Bridget Williams Books)
·
Ten x Ten: Art at Te Papa edited by Athol
McCredie (Te Papa Press)
·
Undreamed of ... 50 years of the Frances
Hodgkins Fellowship by Priscilla Pitts and Andrea Hotere (Otago University
Press)
·
Tōtara: A Natural and Cultural History by
Philip Simpson (Auckland University Press)
·
Gordon Walters: New Vision by Zara
Stanhope (commissioning editor), Lucy Hammonds, Laurence Simmons, Julia Waite
(Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Dunedin Public Art Gallery)
·
The Face of Nature: An Environmental History
of the Otago Peninsula by Jonathan West (Otago University Press)
Poetry:
·
Flow: Whanganui River Poems by
Airini Beautrais (Victoria University Press)
·
Anchor Stone by Tony Beyer (Cold Hub
Press)
·
The Internet of Things by Kate Camp
(Victoria University Press)
·
The Ones Who Keep Quiet by David Howard
(Otago University Press)
·
Tightrope by Selina Tusitala Marsh
(Auckland University Press)
·
Night Horse by Elizabeth Smither
(Auckland University Press)
·
What is Left Behind by Tom Weston (Steele
Roberts Aotearoa)
·
Rāwāhi by Briar Wood (Anahera Press)
·
The Yield by Sue Wootton (Otago
University Press)
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist will be
announced on 6 March 2018. The winners (including of the four Best First Book
Awards and a Māori Language Award, presented at the judges’ discretion) will be
announced at a ceremony on May 15 2018, held as the first public event of the
Auckland Writers Festival. 2018 will mark the 50th anniversary of
the first book awards ceremony in New Zealand, presented in 1968 as the Wattie
Book Awards.
The
$50,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for 2018 will be judged
by novelist, poet and academic Anna
Smaill, journalist and reviewer Philip Matthews, and award-winning
bookseller and reviewer Jenna
Todd. They will be joined in deciding the ultimate winner from
their shortlist of four by a high-profile international judge.
The
Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction will be
judged by lecturer in the Māori faculty at the Auckland University of
Technology Dr Ella
Henry, editor and award-winning journalist Toby Manhire, and
former bookseller and publisher Philip
King.
The Illustrated Non-Fiction Award will be judged by Professor of History at the University of Otago and winner of the Illustrated Non-Fiction prize in 2017 Barbara Brookes, curator Mātauranga Māori at Te Papa Matariki Williams (Tūhoe, Taranaki, Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Whakaue), and director of the public art gallery Objectspace Kim Paton.
The
Poetry Award will be judged by poet, novelist and creative
non-fiction writer Alison
Wong, poet and deputy chief executive, Māori, at Manukau
Institute of Technology Robert
Sullivan, and Otago poet, publisher, editor and librettist Michael Harlow.
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