Ockham NZ Book Awards 2022 shortlists announced

The shortlists for the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced.

The shortlisted books, chosen from longlists announced in January, are:

Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction

• A Good Winter (Gigi Fenster, Text)
• Entanglement (Bryan Walpert, Mākaro Press)
• Greta and Valdin (Rebecca C Reilly, Te Herenga Waka University Press)
• Kurangaituku (Whiti Hereaka, Huia Publishers)

General Nonfiction Award

• From the Centre: A writer’s life (Patricia Grace, Penguin)
• The Alarmist: Fifty years measuring climate change (Dave Lowe, Te Herenga Waka University Press)
• The Mirror Book (Charlotte Grimshaw, Vintage)
• Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa (Vincent O’Malley, Bridget Williams Books)

Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry

• Rangikura (Tayi Tibble, Te Herenga Waka University Press)
• Sleeping with Stones (Serie Barford, Anahera Press)
• The Sea Walks into a Wall (Anne Kennedy, Auckland University Press)
• Tumble (Joanna Preston, Otago University Press)

Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Nonfiction

• Dressed: Fashionable dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910 (Claire Regnault, Te Papa Press)
• NUKU: Stories of 100 Indigenous women (Qiane Matata-Sipu, QIANE+co)
• Shifting Grounds: Deep histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Lucy Mackintosh, Bridget Williams Books)
• The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble (Bridget Hackshaw, Massey University Press).

In 2022 the prize money for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction has increased from NZ$55,000 to NZ$60,000. The winners in the remaining three categories each receive NZ$10,000.

The winners will be announced at a public ceremony on 11 May during the 2022 Auckland Writers Festival.

For more information about this year’s shortlists, see the NZ Book Awards Trust website.

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