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Northland photographer Jane Ussher finalist in NZ's top book awards 3 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read Acclaimed photographer and Kerikeri resident Jane Ussher is a finalist in New Zealand's most prestigious book awards. Photo / supplied Acclaimed photographer and Kerikeri resident Jane Ussher is a finalist in New Zealand's most prestigious book awards. Photo / supplied A Northland photographer has made the shortlist for New Zealand's most prestigious book awards. Finalists for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, which were announced yesterday, include Nature – Stilled by Jane Ussher. T...

Press Release – Ockham Book Awards The shortlist for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, released today, is a dazzling reflection of the robust, innovative literature scene of Aotearoa New Zealand, revealing a deeper engagement with our culturally diverse society. In the Fiction category, two past winners are vying for the same award. Catherine Chidgey and Pip Adam are both contenders for the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, alongside Brannavan Gnanalingam, a previous nominee, and the critically acclaimed story writer Airini Beautrais. The works on the Fiction shortlist ...

A collection of “unhappy love stories”, 10 years in the making is in contention for New Zealand’s top fiction prize – though its author says she has already had her happy ever after. Bug Week & Other Stories, the debut short-story collection by writer and poet Airini Beautrais, is one of four works shortlisted in the fiction category at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Beautrais told the Guardian that she was pleased to have made the...

Funkhaus by Magnolia 木蘭 by National Anthem by The Savage Coloniser Book by Tusiata Avia (Victoria University Press)   An Exquisite Legacy: The Life and Work of New Zealand Naturalist GV Hudson by George Gibbs (Potton & Burton) Monique Fiso (Godwit, Penguin Random House) Marti Friedlander: Portraits of the Artists by Leonard Bell (Auckland University Press) Nature – Stilled by   Specimen: Personal Essays by Te Hāhi Mihinare |The Māori Anglican Church by Hirini Kaa (Bridget Williams Books) The Dark is Light Enough: Ralph Hotere A Biographical Portrait by Vincent O’Sullivan...

Christopher Plummer, suave Canadian actor best known as von Trapp in The Sound of Music – obituary A gifted classical actor on stage, he was disdainful of his best-known film role, which he said he was ‘dying to send up’ Plummer: liked playing ‘larger-than-life characters’ Credit: Martin Pope Christopher Plummer, the Oscar-winning Canadian actor, who has died aged 91, achieved fame in the early 1950s in a succession of Shakespearean roles, but was best remembered, to his lasting irritation, for his sentimental portrayal of Captain Georg von Trapp in the film musical The Sound of Mus...