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Friday, 14 May 2021, 12:56 pm It wasn’t your ordinary Wednesday, at least not for UCOL lecturer Airini Beautrais. At the New Zealand Ockham Book Awards it was announced that Beautrais has won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction – the country’s most prestigious literary fiction award, coming with a $57,000 prize. Beautrais won for her collection of short stories ‘ Bug Week’, which judges described as “a tightly-wound and remarkably assured collection”. The win has been viewed as something of an industry upset, especially given that Beautrais was a first time nominee, and i...

The thing about short stories is that there is nowhere to hide. A short story has to work hard, saying a lot by saying very little. Whether she is writing about or from the perspective of a little girl, a spurned lover, an ageing madam, or, astonishingly, a toroa (albatross), Beautrais nails an authentic voice each time. With a spiky confidence and knowing, mordant humour, Beautrais writes with a crushing and witty eye on humanity at its most troubled and askew. We all agreed it’s a tightly wound and remarkably assured collection that sustains a vice-like grip from start to finish. These at...

Composite: Stuff Airini Beautrais’ Bug Week is the first short story collection to win the Acorn Prize in over a decade, and the second ever. First-time nominee Airini Beautrais​ was awarded the country’s premier fiction prize at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards on Wednesday night. The Whanganui-based author beat out two previous winners and a previous nominee to win the Jann Medlicott​ Acorn Prize for Fiction, becoming the first winner for a collection of short stories in over a decade. Beautrais took out the $57,000 prize for Bug Week, her first work of prose following fo...

Whanganui author Airini Beautrais wins major prize at Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 12 May, 2021 08:45 AM 3 minutes to read 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 ...

Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the premier award at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Bug Week - it's her first book of fiction and it's also the first time the category has been won by a collection of short stories in more than a decade. Airini Beautrais. Photo: Tracy Grant Beautrais won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction with a book that convenor of judges Kiran Dass described as a knockout from start to finish. "Casting a devastating and witty eye on humanity at its most fallible and wonky, this is a tightly-wound and remarkably assured colle...