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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...

‘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 ...

The people vote Ralph © Provided by Newsroom Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. Steve Braunias on tonight's national book awards The people have spoken. Yesterday's announcement of a book prize at ReadingRoom, offering the chance to win all 16 books shortlisted for tonight's Ockham New Zealand national book awards, asked readers to name the books they want to win. More than 100 entries flew in and the favourites have been made very clear. Actually the people are still spea...