Teenager joins established names on shortlist for national children’s book awards
Publishers Association Of New Zealand
by Katherine Shanks
10M ago
A 16-year-old Kāpiti Coast student is among the writers and illustrators announced today as finalists in the 2023 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, the preeminent celebration of books for Aotearoa’s young readers. Arlo Kelly, one of the Awards’ youngest ever finalists, is vying for the NZSA Best First Book Award with his debut novel Echo. The teenager is in fine company. A wealth of talent has been recognised by this year’s shortlist, including established names like Witi Ihimaera, Donovan Bixley and Kate De Goldi alongside familiar faces like Jason Gunn and Fifi Colst ..read more
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Novel that New Zealanders have ‘clasped to their hearts’ wins country’s richest writing prize
Publishers Association Of New Zealand
by Katherine Shanks
10M ago
Celebrated New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has won the $64,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for The Axeman’s Carnival – a page-turning novel of depth, pathos and humanity that skilfully infuses comedy with a building sense of menace, narrated by a precocious magpie called Tama. Ms Chidgey received the fiction prize ahead of screenwriter and author Michael Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue) (Better the Blood); historian and novelist Monty Soutar (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Kahungunu) (Kāwai: For Su ..read more
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HUIA Publishers at Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Publishers Association Of New Zealand
by Katherine Shanks
1y ago
From HUIA Publishers: Earlier this month, director of HUIA Pania Tahau-Hodges travelled to Italy to promote our books at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. She went with a clear focus to meet like-minded publishers with aligned values. At the fair, we tapped into the great appetite that exists for Indigenous storytelling and the growing network of Indigenous publishers. The international interest in our authors and books has been steadily increasing over the last few years. We are pleased to see the success of The Bomb by Sacha Cotter and Josh Morgan continue in the United States as The Can ..read more
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Frankfurt Book Fair wraps
Publishers Association Of New Zealand
by Katherine Shanks
1y ago
L-R: Dame Wendy Pye, Jenny Oliver, Chris Shaw, Catriona Ferguson, Kevin Chapman, Peter Dowling & Alessandra Zecchini Association Director Catriona Ferguson reports: It was a joy for PANZ to be back at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week. For obvious reasons we haven’t been able to host a collective stand since 2019 but this year we made our presence felt with a vibrant, stunning stand which provided a beautiful backdrop for some very fine books from Aotearoa New Zealand. Our small but perfectly formed team of publishers on the ground, (Kevin Chapman – Upstart Press, Peter Dowling and Al ..read more
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Gavin Bishop’s taonga of a title crowned Book of the Year at children’s awards
Publishers Association Of New Zealand
by Katherine Shanks
1y ago
A book described as a taonga for this generation and the next, written and illustrated by one of the country’s most lauded authors, was tonight crowned the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults ceremony, held at the Alan Gibbs Centre, Wellington College. Atua: Māori Gods and Heroes by multi-award-winning author Gavin Bishop was praised by the judges for its sense of magic and the way it validates matauranga and te ao Māori truths. “Atua is an instant classic, a ‘must have’ for every Kiwi household and library, that is packaged in s ..read more
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