PEN Best First Book Award

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, merging the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards into the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. From 2010 until 2014, the awards were known as the New Zealand Post Book Awards. They are governed by the New Zealand Book Awards Trust.

There are four categories: fiction (The Acorn Foundation Literary Award), General Non-Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction and Poetry. Best First Book prizes are awarded to first time authors in each of the categories. The awards event is the opening event of the Auckland Writers Festival. The Awards' main sponsors are Ockham Residential, The Acorn Foundation, Creative New Zealand and Book Tokens Ltd.

Earlier the New Zealand Book Awards ran from 1976 to 1995 and the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards from 1968-1993. Montana Wines assumed sponsorship in 1994 and the awards became the Montana Book Awards (1994-1995).

The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt (Victoria University Press)

Biography category winner Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press)

A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century edited by Ian J. Graham (Geological Society of New Zealand)

Buying the Land, Selling the Land by Richard Boast (Victoria University Press)

Collected Poems 1951–2006 by CK Stead (Auckland University Press)

Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston (Penguin Group New Zealand)

Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance by Len Castle (Lopdell House Gallery)

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