Internationally acclaimed New Zealand writer Emily Perkins MNZM has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Lioness – a smart, multi-layered, laugh-out-loud novel exploring wealth, class and female mid-life reckoning.
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New Zealand has become the first country in the English-speaking world to launch an online collaboration between its independent bookstores; called BookHub, it will be a game changer for local booklovers.
BookHub is a site where readers can browse and buy books from more than 70 bookstores around the motu – all in one place.
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A landmark partnership between iwi and Māori health providers Te Hau Ora o Ngāpuhi, Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga, Te Arawa Lakes Trust and Whakarongorau Aotearoa // New Zealand Telehealth Services marks the next stage of designing and delivering equitable health outcomes for priority communities.
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The small township of Wānaka is to get a major boost to its globally renowned reputation with its new lakefront development winning an International Federation of Landscape Architects Award of Excellence.
The honour was presented in absentia to the project’s New Zealand-based landscape architects – Reset – at a Gala Awards Ceremony in Tokyo, Japan late last week.
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Two entrepreneurs – both just out of high school – are on a mission to get the young men of Aotearoa smelling good, with the launch of a new personal hygiene business called Funk.
Funk founders Toby Downs (18) and Floyd Langdon (18) have some heavy backers for their enterprise, with seed funding and continued backing from The Prince’s Trust and support from The Beauty Lab Collective. They are mentored by Dion Nash from Triumph and Disaster and business leader, board director and author David Downs.
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Friends of Women’s Refuges Trust has announced a record breaking $350,000 donation to NZ Women’s Refuge from the proceeds of the NZ Sculpture OnShore 2023 exhibition.
The large-scale exhibition of 130 outdoor sculptures created by more than 100 artists across the motu took place at Operetu Fort Takapuna, Auckland 4 – 19 November 2023. It attracted 21,000 visitors – the biggest turnout in the exhibition’s 27-year history.
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2023 Winners’ Announcement
Celebrated New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has won the $64,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for The Axeman’s Carnival – a page-turning novel of depth, pathos and humanity that skilfully infuses comedy with a building sense of menace, narrated by a precocious magpie called Tama.
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Get your seatbelts on and prepare yourself for the hilarious, shocking, tell-all tale of Willy de Wit – one of Aotearoa’s best-known comedians. From running riot in sell-out stand-up shows all over New Zealand with Funny Business, and starring in the multi-series eponymously named TV show, to his long tenure as one of the original Radio Hauraki ‘Morning Pirates’ presenters, Willy’s life was one fun ride… until it really really wasn’t.
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New Zealand will be the first country in the world to publish the most anticipated novel of 2023 – Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton – on 9 February. Birnam Wood is a gripping thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, a novel of epic scope and imagination that catapulted the Aotearoa writer to global stardom, selling 1.5 million copies worldwide, publishing in 32 languages.
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With a reporter’s and historian’s eye, award-winning author Redmer Yska presents Katherine Mansfield in metaphorical technicolour, revealing details of her life in Europe – her happy place where she produced her finest work – to a contemporary audience for the first time.
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2022 Winners’ Announcement
Wellington novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Pākehā) has won the $60,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Kurangaituku – a richly imagined contemporary retelling of the traditional Te Arawa story Hatupatu and the Bird-Woman, told from the perspective of the ‘monster’ Kurangaituku.
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Histories of Hate, edited by Matthew Cunningham, Marinus La Rooij and Paul Spoonley, is a landmark work exploring intolerance and extremism in Aotearoa New Zealand. It looks critically at the motivations behind the country’s radical right activity, and in doing so, identifies patterns over time.
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