2017 Awards

Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize

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    The Wish Child

    Catherine Chidgey

    Victoria University Press

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    A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse

    Brannavan Gnanalingam

    Lawrence & Gibson

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    Love as a Stranger

    Owen Marshall

    Vintage, Penguin Random House

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    Tail of the Taniwha

    Courtney Sina Meredith

    Beatnik Publishing

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    My Mother and the Hungarians

    Frankie McMillan

    Canterbury University Press

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    Billy Bird

    Emma Neale

    Vintage, Penguin Random House

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    Deleted Scenes for Lovers

    Tracey Slaughter

    Victoria University Press

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    The Name on the Door is Not Mine

    C.K. Stead

    Allen & Unwin

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    Dad Art

    Damien Wilkins

    Victoria University Press

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    Strip

    Sue Wootton

    Mākaro Press

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    Black Ice Matter

    Gina Cole

    Huia Publishers

Poetry Award

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    Back with the Human Condition

    Nick Ascroft

    Victoria University Press

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    Fale Aitu | Spirit House

    Tusiata Avia

    Victoria University Press

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    Hera Lindsay Bird

    Hera Lindsay Bird

    Victoria University Press

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    In the Supplementary Garden: New and and Selected Poems

    Diana Bridge

    Cold Hub Press

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    Thought Horses

    Rachel Bush

    Victoria University Press

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    As the Verb Tenses

    Lynley Edmeades

    Otago University Press

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    Fits & Starts

    Andrew Johnston

    Victoria University Press

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    This Paper Boat

    Gregory Kan

    Auckland University Press

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    And so it is

    Vincent O'Sullivan

    Victoria University Press

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    Beside Herself

    Chris Price

    Auckland University Press

Illustrated Non-Fiction Award

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    Mansfield and Me: A Graphic Memoir

    Sarah Laing

    Victoria University Press

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    Islands: A New Zealand Journey

    Bruce Ansley and Jane Ussher

    Penguin Random House

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    New Zealand Wine: The Land, the Vines, the People

    Warren Moran

    Auckland University Press

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    A Beautiful Hesitation

    Fiona Pardington

    Victoria University Press

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    Futuna: Life of a Building

    Gregory O'Brien and Nick Bevin

    Victoria University Press

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    A Whakapapa of Tradition: One Hundred Years of Ngāti Porou Carving, 1830-1930

    Ngarino Ellis and Natalie Robertson

    Auckland University Press

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    Bloomsbury South: The Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953

    Peter Simpson

    Auckland University Press

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    101 Works of Art

    Ken Hall, Jenny Harper, Felicity Milburn, Nathan Pohio, Lara Strongman and Peter Vangioni

    Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

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    A History of New Zealand Women

    Barbara Brookes

    Bridget Williams Books

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    Ann Shelton: Dark Matter

    Zara Stanhope (editor, pictured) and Clare McIntosh (managing editor)

    Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction

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    Can You Tolerate This?

    Ashleigh Young

    Victoria University Press

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    This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art

    Anthony Byrt

    Auckland University Press

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    The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840-1920

    Ben Schrader

    Bridget Williams Books

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    Being Chinese: A New Zealander's Story

    Helene Wong

    Bridget Williams Books

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    The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000

    Vincent O'Malley

    Bridget Williams Books

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    The World, the Flesh and the Devil; The Life and Opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes, 1765-1838

    Andrew Sharp

    Auckland University Press

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    My Father’s Island

    Adam Dudding

    Victoria University Press

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    New Zealand's Rivers: An environmental history

    Catherine Knight

    Canterbury University Press

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    The Broken Decade: Prosperity, depression and recovery in New Zealand, 1928-39

    Malcolm McKinnon

    Otago University Press

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    Goneville: a memoir

    Nick Bollinger

    Awa Press