2025 Awards

JANN MEDLICOTT Acorn PRIZE FOR Fiction

MARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRY

BOOKHUB AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION

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    A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa

    Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins

    Auckland University Press

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    Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist

    Jill Trevelyan, Jennifer Taylor and Greg Donson

    Massey University Press

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    Fenoga Tāoga Niue I Aotearoa: Niue Heritage Journey in Aotearoa

    Molima Molly Pihigia, Toluma'anave Barbara Makuati-Afitu, Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai, Hikule'o Fe'aomoeako Melaia Māhina and Janson Chau

    Mafola Press

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    Force of Nature Te Aumangea o Te Ao Tūroa: A Conservation History of Forest & Bird 1923-2023

    David Young and Naomi Arnold

    Potton & Burton

  • book

    Golden Enterprise: New Zealand Chinese Merchants 1860s-1970s

    Phoebe H. Li

    Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust

  • book

    Leslie Adkin: Farmer Photographer

    Athol McCredie

    Te Papa Press

  • book

    Sam the Trap Man: Cracking Yarns and Tall Tales from the Bush

    Sam Gibson

    Allen & Unwin New Zealand

  • book

    Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa

    Kirsty Baker

    Auckland University Press

  • book

    Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa

    Matiu Baker (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Whakaue), Katie Cooper, Michael Fitzgerald and Rebecca Rice

    Te Papa Press

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    Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art

    Deidre Brown (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) and Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou) with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Ngāpuhi, Te Aupōuri, Ngāti Kurī)

    Auckland University Press

GENERAL NON-FICTION AWARD