Three books from Auckland University Press have been shortlisted in this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 

The AUP team is pleased to see three pukapuka shortlisted this year, across three separate categories. This comes from a longlist of 44 titles across four categories, seven of which were published by AUP. Congratulations to all finalists!

Here are the AUP shortlisted titles:

General Non-Fiction Award

A Fire in the Belly of Hineāmaru: A Collection of Narratives about Te Tai Tokerau Tīpuna by Melinda Webber and Te Kapua O'Connor

Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction

Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand by Nick Bollinger

Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry

Always Italicise: How to write while colonised by Alice Te Punga Somerville

The shortlist will be announced in March. For more information, visit the New Zealand Book Awards website.