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Share Members of the Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington community won six of the eight annual awards at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards last night.  Five of the winners are alumni of the University’s renowned International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) Creative Writing Master’s programme, while the sixth is an emeritus professor in the University’s English programme. Three of the winning books were published by Victoria University Press (VUP). “To have five winning graduates from the International Institute of Modern Letters indicates that our reputation...

Fiso cooks up Ockham winner 13 May 2021 08:30 AM Photo: Chef Monique Fiso Facebook. More Related Stories Related Podcast Wellington chef Monique Fiso’s treasury of Māori food, Hiakai, has won the illustrated non-fiction and the best first book of illustrated non-fiction tohu in this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The awards were presented at a gala event in Auckland last night. Fiso will speak on Sunday at the Auckland Writers Festival on her mission of taking Māori cuisine to the world. A discretionary Māori Language Award, Te Mūrau o te Tuhi, went to Tā Tīmoti K�...

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 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...

In a surprise win, Airini Beautrais took home the largest-ever purse.