Te Mūrau o te Tuhi, a discretionary Māori Language Award, was presented at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 for the landmark work He Kupu Tuku Iho: Ko te Reo Māori te Tatau ki te Ao by pioneering language and tikanga academics Sir Tīmoti Kāret
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Launch speech by Anna Jackson of new poetry collections by Gregory Kan and Sugar Magnolia Wilson
Gregory Kan – Under GlassThis is a book you can read like a novel or inhabit like a dream, and remember afterwards with that sense of resonance dreams give you.Like Greg’s first collection, This Paper Boat, this collection is intricately structured,
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Chris Bourke’s Good-bye Maoriland awarded the IASPM-ANZ Rebecca Coyle Prize
Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand's Great War by Chris Bourke was awarded the 2019 IASPM-ANZ Rebecca Coyle Prize.The Rebecca Coyle Prize is awarded to the best paper on popular music in the Australia-New Zealand region in a
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Lydia Wevers' launch speech of Roger Blackley's Galleries of Maoriland
Literary critic and historian, Lydia Wevers, launched Roger Blackley's new book Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori world, 1880–1910.Most people here will have been in Roger’s office, that twilight zone where
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Dame Anne Salmond shortlisted for £25k British Academy prize
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Professor Dame Anne Salmond has been shortlisted for the 2018 Nayef Al-Rodhan prize.The Nayef Al Rodhan Prize is awarded by the British Academy for "an outstanding contribution to global cultural understan
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