Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards
- 1st
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Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Barbara Anderson (Victoria University Press, 1992)
- 2nd
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Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years by Brian Boyd (Chatto & Windus, 1992)
- 3rd
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Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Māori and Europeans, 1642–1772 by Anne Salmond (Viking, 1991)
New Zealand Book Awards
- Poetry
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Milky Way Bar by Bill Manhire (Victoria University Press, 1991)
- Fiction
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Dangerous Desires by Peter Wells (Reed, 1991)
- Non-Fiction
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Two Worlds: First Meetings Between Māori and Europeans, 1642–1772 by Anne Salmond (Viking, 1991)
- Book Production
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At Home and Abroad: A Collection of Photographs by Robin Morrison (Tandem Press, 1991)