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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 as the best place to learn creative writing in Aotearoa New Zealand is well earned. It is truly outstanding to see our alumni leading in their chosen field,” says Professor Sarah Leggott, Dean of the University’s Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. ....
Supplied/Stuff Acclaimed Samoan-New Zealand poet and performer Tusiata Avia with her award-winning poetry collection, The Savage Coloniser Book. As a 10-year-old growing up in Christchurch, she discovered her penchant for prose through a school teacher who devoted half the class time to poetry writing. But by the time she was 15, Avia felt compelled to put the craft aside. “It was 1981 in Christchurch under a Muldoon government, and it was not a friendly time to be Samoan or brown of any shade,” Avia said. “I just got the message from everywhere that brown girls like me didn’t go on to become writers, so I shut it down.” ....
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 four books of poetry. It is only the second ever short story collection to win the Acorn Prize. ....
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 collection. Atmospheric and refined, these stories evoke a strong sense of quiet unease, slow burning rage and the absurdly comic, Dass said. ....