At the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair, Auckland University Press director Sam Elworthy (pictured left) was elected to the executive committee of the International Publishers Association (IPA). Founded in 1896 and based in Geneva, the IPA is the world's pea

New Zealand’s Poet Laureate for 2017–19 is Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh.The Poet Laureate is one of the most prestigious national awards for New Zealand poets, recognising outstanding contributions to New Zealand poetry. Each Laureate is awarded $80,000

We were delighted to see Dame Joan Metge recieve the 2015 Prime Minister’s Award for non-fiction. Dame Joan is an educator, lecturer and writer, celebrated for her promotion of cross-cultural awareness. She’s also incredibly modest and self-effacing,

Shigeru Ban, architect of Christchurch’s Transitional (‘Cardboard’) Cathedral, has won the Pritzker Prize. Ban is a world-class architect and expert in disaster-zone building. The new Cathedral is his largest post-disaster structure to date.“The Prit

Iconic National Women’s Hospital spent nearly a half-century at the cutting edge of the women’s health and reproduction in New Zealand – natural childbirth and rooming-in; artificial insemination and in vitro fertilisation; sterilisation and abortion