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Stephen A'Court The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra received $3.2m ahead of its 75th anniversary. Pictured is The Soldier’s Tale presented in February in Paraparaumu. The sector needed a long-term, rigorous funding system, so artists could live sustainable lives and not experience high rates of burnout, Harvey said. Hot on the heels of Amazon’s $1.38 billion The grant incentivises international screen productions to come to New Zealand. The screen sector is a lucrative industry which can inject large sums of money into an economy relatively immediately. Ryan Anderson/Stuff The Lord of ...

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 ...