New Zealand Post Book of the Year

Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964 by Chris Bourke (Auckland University Press, 2010)

Fiction

The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley (Penguin, 2010)

Poetry

The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp (Victoria University Press, 2010)

General Non-Fiction

Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964 by Chris Bourke (Auckland University Press, 2010)

Illustrated Non-Fiction

The Passing World: The Passing of Life: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai by Damian Skinner (Rim Books, 2010)

People’s Choice

Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964 by Chris Bourke (Auckland University Press, 2010)

The NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction

Everything We Hoped For by Pip Adam (Victoria University Press, 2010)

The NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry

Dear Sweet Harry by Lynn Jenner (Auckland University Press, 2010)

The NZSA E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction

Whaikōrero: The World of Māori Oratory by Poia Rewi (Auckland University Press, 2010)