Former New Zealand Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh’s first book for children has been judged the supreme winner at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Mophead was awarded the highest prize in children’s

Mophead: How Your Difference Makes a Difference by Selina Tusitala Marsh is a finalist for the Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.The judges said of Selina’s debut children’s boo

Wellington writer, editor and publisher Helen Rickerby has won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry for her collection  How to Live (Auckland University Press) at the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. “How to Li

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Seven Auckland University Press books have made the cut of the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist featuring heavily in the poetry and illustrated non-fiction categories. In the longlist for the Mary and Peter Biggs Awards for Poetry ar