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Predecessor to the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Established by the New Zealand Literary Fund, a government organisation, in 1976. Annual awards were presented for literary merit in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and (later) book production. General writing 1976 1995 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults
The Arts Foundation of New Zealand established the Icon Awards as a means to celebrate and acknowledge New Zealand art-makers who have achieved the highest standards of artistic expression. [13] Limited to a living circle of 20, Icons are pioneers and leaders from all arts disciplines, living and working around the world.
The Prize was established and funded from a bequest from Laura Solomon and The Solomon Family. It is judged by a three-person panel consisting of one New Zealand literary figure and representatives from the Solomon family and The Cuba Press. The winner is awarded a cash award of $1000 (as an advance) and a publishing contract with The Cuba Press.
Alfred Domett (1811–1887), fourth Premier of New Zealand and poet; Robyn Donald (born 1940), romance novelist; Basil Dowling (1910–2000), poet; Melanie Drewery (born 1970), children's author and illustrator; Joan Druett (born 1935), historian and novelist; Alison Edith Hilda Drummond (1903–1984), farmer, historian, writer and editor
The NZSA Waitangi Day Literary Honours are awarded each year to one or more New Zealand writers. They are an initiative of the New Zealand Society of Authors (Pen NZ Inc) Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa and were first given out in 2014.
The NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award was an award for New Zealand writers of poetry and imaginative fiction. Janet Frame was a member of the writers’ organisation that is now called the New Zealand Society of Authors, or NZSA (then named the NZ PEN Centre) and had been greatly helped by being awarded the Hubert Church Memorial Award in 1951 for her first book, The Lagoon and other stories. [1]
2011: Malcolm McKinnon (The 1930s Depression in New Zealand) and Melissa Williams (Maori Urban Migrations from North Hokianga to Auckland 1930–1970) Other finalists: Dr Lee Davidson (Mountain Feeling : The Lives of Climbers and Other Stories), Bradford Haami (Ka Mau Te Wehi : May the Force Be With You) and Janet Hunt (Dick Henry and the Birds) [6]
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