![]() “Simply written, yet dramatic and powerfully eloquent, each poem in this book is a banger.”Īuthor and senior curator New Zealand Culture and History at Te Papa Claire Regnault won the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction for the stunningly presented Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910 (Te Papa Press).Ĭategory convenor Chanel Clarke (Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Porou, Waikato Tainui) “Through her layering of art, re-imagining of historic moments and firm nods to poets past, Joanna Preston reminds us of Louise Gluck with her precise, evocative narratives, chiselled out of stone to reveal what was always there. Poetry category convenor Saradha Koirala says Tumble is a celebration of poetry that incorporates free verse and traditional forms. Preston’s second collection encompasses myth and magic, including Vikings, astronauts and fallen angels. A game changer.”Ĭanterbury poet, editor and writing tutor Joanna Preston has won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry for Tumble (Otago University Press). “ Kurangaituku is poetic, intense, clever and sexy as hell. The ogress Kurangaituku tells us not only her side of the story but everything she knows about Te Ao Māori. ![]() “It’s an epic poem of a novel, resonant of Māori oral traditions, that gives a voice, form and a name to the bird-woman from the Māori myth. The Fiction category’s convenor of judges, Rob Kidd, says Kurangaituku (Huia Publishers) is an extraordinary novel, unashamedly literary and utterly innovative. The ceremony was held live and in person, emcee’d by Jack Tame at Q Theatre, Auckland this evening. ![]() Ms Hereaka received the prize ahead of novelist, lawyer and academic Gigi Fenster ( A Good Winter) debut novelist and winner of the 2019 Adam Foundation Prize Rebecca K Reilly ( Greta & Valdin) and novelist, poet, literary critic and academic Bryan Walpert ( Entanglement). Wellington novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Pākehā) has won the $60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Kurangaituku – a richly imagined contemporary retelling of the traditional Te Arawa story Hatupatu and the Bird-Woman, told from the perspective of the ‘monster’ Kurangaituku. ‘Intense, Clever and Sexy as Hell’ Novel Wins Country’s Richest Writing Prize. ![]()
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