NZ Post Book Awards 2014 winners announced
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced.
The winners in each category are:
Book of the Year
- Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer (Jill Trevelyan, Te Papa Press)
Fiction
- The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Victoria University Press)
Poetry
- Us, Then (Vincent O’Sullivan, Victoria University Press)
Illustrated Nonfiction
- Coast: A New Zealand Journey (Bruce Ansley & Jane Ussher, Random House NZ)
General Nonfiction
- Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer (Jill Trevelyan, Te Papa Press)
Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice
- Molesworth: Stories from New Zealand’s Largest High Country Station (Harry Broad & Rob Suisted, Craig Potton Publishing)
People’s Choice
- The Luminaries (Eleanor Catton, Victoria University Press).
The winning authors in each category receive NZ$10,000 (A$8970), with the exception of the Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award, which is worth NZ$2500 (A$2243), and the People’s Choice Award, which is worth NZ$5000 (A$4485). The winner of the New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award receives an additional NZ$15,000 (A$13,455).
The judges described Trevelyan’s Book of the Year winner Peter McLeavey as ‘a stunning book, brilliant in every respect’. They also praised Catton, who won two prizes for The Luminaries, for her ‘virtuosity’ and ‘bold experiment’.
The NZ Post Book Award winners were announced at a ceremony in Auckland on 27 August. The judging panel included broadcaster Kim Hill, artist Dick Frizzell, writer Elizabeth Smither and literary critic Peter Simpson.
The winners of the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards, which form part of the NZ Post Book Awards, were announced earlier this year.
For more information about the winners, visit the Booksellers New Zealand website here.
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