Whanganui author Airini Beautrais wins major prize at Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
12 May, 2021 08:45 AM
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Beautrais' Bug Week is the first short story collection to win the major prize in over a decade and only the second in the awards' 53-year history. Photo / Lewis Gardner
Beautrais' Bug Week is the first short story collection to win the major prize in over a decade and only the second in the awards' 53-year history. Photo / Lewis Gardner
Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won New Zealand's biggest writing prize.
Beautrais was announced the winner of the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in Auckland on Wednesday night.