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Paula Morris on the Ockhams most diverse shortlist ever

Paula Morris on the Ockhams most diverse shortlist ever
5 Mar, 2021 07:00 PM
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Hinemoana Baker. Photo / Ashley Clark
The shortlists for the Ockham NZ Book Awards, announced this week, revealed one big and long-awaited surprise.
Just last year, Kiri Piahana-Wong convenor of judges for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
said she was dismayed to see that only a tiny number of writers of colour were in contention for the prize.
Now, for the first time in the 50-plus years of book awards, the four poets shortlisted are Māori, Pasifika, Asian and Arab: Hinemoana Baker, Tusiata Avia, Nina Mingya Powles and Mohamed Hassan. ....

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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlist announced

Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 longlist announced
27 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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NZ Herald
The longlist for New Zealand s most prestigious book awards has now been released - with more than a dozen first-time authors making the cut.
Books exploring issues of identity, domestic life, war, food, our natural world and our people are among the 40 works of poetry, prose and non-fiction longlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today.
The works were selected from 179 entries, and include 13 first-time authors - which book awards trustee Jenna Todd said was extraordinary .
It was a testament to the vibrancy of the country s literature, she said. ....

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Photos of New Zealand politicians and their bookcases are creepily revealing

They were kind of pleasantly revealing at the same time as being kind of creepily revealing. Public figures live in goldfish bowls but it was strange to see the leaders of New Zealand political parties in such a personal and intimate nook of their respective goldfish bowls. We are what we read; a bookcase is an X-ray of its owner, their ambitions and fears, their IQ and their desires, as well as the things they choose to decorate their bookcases.
Former National party leader Simon Bridges in casual repose in front of his bookcase at his Tauranga home. Photograph: Steve Braunias/Newsroom ....

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Books: What Wellingtonians will be reading this summer

It s been a crazy year. Many of us will have a stack of books next to our beds that has only grown higher in 2020. But it s almost time to kick back with a book. Here s what a bunch of Wellingtonians will be reading this summer.
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Claire Mabey, the co-founder of Verb Wellington, is in desperate need of escape, then some comforting nostalgia.
Claire Mabey, Director of Verb Wellington and founder of LitCrawl Wellington
I m in desperate need of escape so I have NK Jemisin s
The City We Became ready for day one of holidays. Then I m all for some comforting nostalgia so I ve got Anita Brookner s entire backlist (brilliant, domestic, quietly simmering characters). And Wellington writer Rachel Kerr s novel ....

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