Past Winners

Yee, Grace

2024: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
MARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRY Chinese Fish by Grace Yee (Giramondo Publishing, 2023)

Yelich, Sonja

2005: Montana New Zealand Book Awards
The NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry Clung by Sonja Yelich (Auckland University Press, 2004)

See Sonja Yelich's biography on the NZ Book Council website.

Young , Ashleigh

2017: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
ROYAL SOCIETY TE APĀRANGI AWARD FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young (Victoria University Press, 2016)