Five books from AUP have been longlisted in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for 2025.

We’re thrilled to see five AUP titles making the longlist for this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Congratulations to all those involved with these pukapuka! 

The following books from AUP have been longlisted:

BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa, edited by Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins

Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa, by Kirsty Baker

Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art, by Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis, with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki

Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry

Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka, by Robert Sullivan

In the Half Light of a Dying Day, by C. K. Stead

To see the full longlist, visit the New Zealand Book Awards website.

The shortlist will be announced in early March, with the winners to be announced on 14 May during the Auckland Writers Festival.