Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards
- 1st
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Moriori: A People Rediscovered by Michael King (Viking, 1989)
- 2nd
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Hanly: A New Zealand Artist by Russell Haley (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989)
- 3rd
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The Forest Carpet: New Zealand’s Little-Noticed Forest Plants by Bill Malcolm and Nancy Malcolm (Craig Potton Publishing, 1989)
New Zealand Book Awards
- Poetry
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A Pattern of Marching by Elizabeth Smither (Auckland University Press, 1989)
- Fiction
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Visitors by John Cranna (Heinemann Reed, 1989)
- Non-Fiction
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Born to New Zealand: A Biography of Jane Maria Atkinson by Frances Porter (Bridget Williams Books, 1995)
- Book Production
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New Zealand! New Zealand! In Praise of Kiwiana by Stephen Barnett and Richard Wolfe (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989)
