Past Winners

Montana New Zealand Book Awards

Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
Stonedogs by Craig Marriner (Vintage, 2001)
Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case by Lynley Hood (Canterbury University Press, 2001)
Fiction
Stonedogs by Craig Marriner (Vintage, 2001)
Fiction Runners Up
Billie’s Kiss by Elizabeth Knox (Victoria University Press, 2002)
Fiction Runners Up
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones (Penguin, 2002)
Poetry
Piggy-back Moon by Hone Tuwhare (Godwit, 2001)
Biography
Long Loop Home: A Memoir by Peter Wells (Vintage, 2001)
Environment
Rolling Thunder: The Spirit of Karekare by Bob Harvey (Exisle, 2001)
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
The Art of Tivaevae: Traditional Cook Islands Quilting by Lynnsay Rongokea, photography by John Daley (Godwit, 2001)
Illustrative
Akekeia! Traditional Dance in Kiribati by Joan Whincup and Tony Whincup, designed by Julia Parkinson (Format, 2001)
Reference & Anthology
Ngā Pēpeha a ngā Tīpuna: The Sayings of the Ancestors by Hirini Moko Mead and Neil Grove (Victoria University Press, 2001)
Honour Award
Eruera Manuera by Te Onehou Phillis (Huia, 2001)
The NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction
Stonedogs by Craig Marriner (Vintage, 2001)
The NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry
Husk by Chris Price (Auckland University Press, 2002)
The NZSA E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction
Fool’s Paradise by Steve Braunias (Random House, 2001)
Readers’ Choice Award
A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case by Lynley Hood (Canterbury University Press, 2001)
The A. W. Reed Lifetime Achievement Award
Maurice Shadbolt
Best Review Pages
North & South
Reviewer of the Year Award
Jane Hurley