Past Winners

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION
Auē by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press, 2019)
MARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRY
How to Live by Helen Rickerby (Auckland University Press, 2019)
ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION AWARD
Protest Tautohetohe: Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance edited by Stephanie Gibson and Matariki Williams and Puawai Cairns (Te Papa Press, 2019)
GENERAL NON-FICTION AWARD
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter (Victoria University Press, 2019)
MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – HUBERT CHURCH PRIZE FOR FICTION
Auē by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press, 2019)
MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – JESSIE MACKAY PRIZE FOR POETRY
Craven by Jane Arthur (Victoria University Press, 2019)
MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – JUDITH BINNEY PRIZE FOR ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION
We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa by Chris McDowall and Tim Denee (Massey University Press, 2019)
MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD – E H MCCORMICK PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter (Victoria University Press, 2019)