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Sodden Downstream, is in the running again with his new novel, Sprigs. Bug Week & Other Stories. Fiction category convenor of judges Kiran Dass said the qualities the four shortlisted works had in common were “craft, nuance, urgent storytelling, rage against injustice, and new perspectives”. Ross Giblin/Stuff Set in Nazi Germany, Remote Sympathy explores the attractions and evils of obliviousness. Nothing to See explores life in the era of surveillance capitalism and the increasingly thin line between reality and simulation. Sprigs takes on violence, racism and toxic masculinity in t...

Ockham NZ Book Awards longlist features authors with Whanganui links 29 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read After being longlisted three times in the past for her poetry, this year Airini Beautrais has made the fiction longlist. Photo / File Whanganui Chronicle By: Mike Tweed and Liz Wylie Authors Airini Beautrais and Sara McIntyre have been named on the longlist for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The works were selected from 179 entries and include 13 first-time authors, one of whom is McIntyre, whose book "Observations of a Rural Nurse" was nominated for the Boo...