Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlists announced

The longlists for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced.

The longlisted titles in each category are:

Fiction

• Nothing to See (Pip Adam, Victoria University Press)
• Bug Week (Airini Beautrais, Victoria University Press)
• Remote Sympathy (Catherine Chidgey, Victoria University Press)
• Sprigs (Brannavan Gnanalingam, Lawrence & Gibson)
• Victory Park (Rachel Kerr, Mākaro Press)
• The Swimmers (Chloe Lane, Victoria University Press)
• Fake Baby (Amy McDaid, Penguin)
• 2000ft Above Worry Level (Eamonn Marra, Victoria University Press)
• Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate)
• Toto Among the Murderers (Sally J Morgan, John Murray Press) 

General nonfiction

• The Mirror Steamed Over: Love and Pop in London, 1962 (Anthony Byrt, Auckland University Press)
• Crossing the Lines: The Story of Three Homosexual New Zealand Soldiers in World War II (Brent Coutts, Otago University Press)
• Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand (Brian Easton, Victoria University Press)
• Bus Stops on the Moon: Red Mole Days 1974-1980 (Martin Edmond, Otago University Press)
• Specimen: Personal Essays (Madison Hamill, Victoria University Press)
• This Pākehā Life: An Unsettled Memoir (Alison Jones, Bridget Williams Books)
• Te Hāhi Mihinare |The Māori Anglican Church (Hirini Kaa, Bridget Williams Books)
• The Dark is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere a Biographical Portrait (Vincent O’Sullivan, Penguin)
• You Have A Lot to Lose: A Memoir 1956-1986 (C K Stead, Auckland University Press)
• Towards Compostela: Walking the Camino de Santiago (Catharina van Bohemen, The Cuba Press) 

Poetry

• The Savage Coloniser Book (Tusiata Avia, Victoria University Press)
• Funkhaus (Hinemoana Baker, Victoria University Press)
• Far-Flung (Rhian Gallagher, Auckland University Press)
• National Anthem (Mohamed Hassan, Dead Bird Books)
• Wow (Bill Manhire, Victoria University Press)
• Goddess Muscle (Karlo Mila, Huia Publishers)
• Pins (Natalie Morrison, Victoria University Press)
• This is Your Real Name (Elizabeth Morton, Otago University Press)
• I Am a Human Being (Jackson Nieuwland, Compound Press)
• Magnolia (Nina Mingya Powles, Seraph Press)

Illustrated nonfiction

• Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists (Leonard Bell, Auckland University Press)
• Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine (Monique Fiso, Godwit)
• An Exquisite Legacy: The Life and Work of New Zealand Naturalist G.V. Hudson (George Gibbs, Potton & Burton)
• Observations of a Rural Nurse (Sara McIntyre, Massey University Press)
• Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde (Paula Morris and Haru Sameshima, Massey University Press)
• Off the Beaten Track: Hunting Tales from the New Zealand Back Country (Dave Shaw, Bateman Books)
• Colin McCahon: Is this the Promised Land? Vol. 2 1960-1987 (Peter Simpson, Auckland University Press)
• Nature—Stilled (Jane Ussher, Te Papa Press)
• Karl Maughan (ed by Hannah Valentine and Gabriella Stead, Auckland University Press and Gow Langsford Gallery)
• Endless Sea: Stories Told Through the Taonga of the New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa (Frances Walsh and Jane Ussher, Massey University Press).

The winner of the fiction award receives NZ$55,000 (A$53,180), while the other category winners each receive NZ$10,000 (A$9670).

The shortlists will be announced on 3 March and the winners—including the Best First Book Awards—will be announced at a ceremony on 12 May.

For more information about the New Zealand Book Awards, click here.

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