Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais wins at Ockham NZ Book Awards
In a surprise win, Airini Beautrais took home the largest-ever purse.
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Airini Beautrais wins New Zealand's Ockham fiction prize for short story collection Bug Week | New Zealand
Author, who usually writes poetry, beat two previous winners to the prestigious NZ$57,000 book award
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News from Ockham Book Awards Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Bug Week – the first person to take out the category for a collection of short stories in more than a decade. Beautrais is well-known as a poet, but this is her first book of fiction, published by Victoria University Press. She received the prize ahead of acclaimed novelists Catherine Chidgey and Pip Adam, both previous winners, and Brannavan Gnanalingam, shortlisted for the fiction prize in 2018. The Fiction cate...
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 Winners' Announcement
‘Knockout’ short story collection wins country’s richest writing prize Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her book Bug Week – the first person ...
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