The shortlist for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been announced. The winners will be announced on May 14.
Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize:
- The New Ships by Kate Duignan
- The Cage by Lloyd Jones
- This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
- All This By Chance by Vincent O’Sullivan
Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry:
- Are Friends Electric? by Helen Heath
- There’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime by Erik Kennedy
- The Facts by Theres Lloyd
- Poukahangtus by Tayi Tibble
Illustrated Non-Fiction:
- Fight for the Forests: The Pivotal Campaigns that Saved New Zealand’s Native Forest by Paul Bensemann
- Wanted: The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor edited by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith.
- Tatau: A History of Samoan Tattooing by Sean Mallon and Sebastien Galliot
- Birdstories: A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Geoff Norman
Royal Society Te Aparangi Award for General Non-Fiction:
- Hudson and Halls: The Food of Love by Joanne Drayton
- Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
- We Can Make a Life by Chessie Henry
- With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War by Anna Rogers