The winners in the OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS have just been announced.

The Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize: The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey




Royal Society Te Aparangi Award for General Non-Fiction: Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young






Illustrated Non-Fiction: A History of New Zealand Women by Barbara Brookes






Poetry: Fits & Starts by Andrew Johnston






Best First Book Awards:
Illustrated Non-Fiction: A Whakapapa of Tradition: 100 Years of Ngati Porou Carving, 1830-1930 by Ngarino Ellis
Poetry: Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
General Non-Fiction: My Father's Island by Adam Dudding
Fiction: Black Ice Matter by Gina Cole