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It is the biggest night in New Zealand literature -- the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. We will be crossing live to the winner of the General Non-fiction category.

The New Zealand Book Awards Trust says the competition for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be fierce - with a strong line-up of finalists vying for the top prizes. Chairperson Nicola Legat spoke to Corin Dann.

The winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, held last night, is Emily Perkins - for her novel Lioness. Fiction winner Emily Perkins, along with the chair of the Book Awards Trust, Nicola Legat, spoke to Corin Dann

Scholar Damon Salesa has pipped the hotly contested General Non-Fiction category at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024 with a book of essays exploring the history and influence of the Pacific.

Marilyn Webb Folded in the Hills - Curators Lauren Gutsell and Lucy Hammonds talk about their Ockham New Zealand Book Awards book about artist Marilyn Webb. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin - oar.org.nz

Two books by Waikato writer Catherine Chidgey have been nominated for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award. It's the world's most valuable annual prize for a work of fiction published in English, with a prize of 178,000 NZD. The books nominated, Pet and The Axeman's Carnival were both released last year, and The Axeman's Carnival won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for fiction at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Also nominated is fellow New Zealander Eleanor Catton's book Burnham Wood. Catherine Chidgey spoke with Charlotte Cook.

For more than 150 years, five carved panels that once formed the back wall of a pātaka, slept in a small swamp just north of Waitara. The carvings, which uri of Taranaki now call the Motunui Epa, emerged from their long sleep in 1971 setting off an extraordinary chain of events that would take them around the world and back again. In this talk, Dr Rachel Buchanan will discuss how unearthing the government records has changed the way she works as a historian, taking her much closer to the power of the underground and the sovereignty that exists, undiminished beneath our feet.  This work resulted in her book Te Motunui Epa (BWB Books, 2022). This talk was recorded on 15 May 2023 at the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.  Dr Rachel Buchanan (Taranaki, Te Ātiawa) is the author of three books that explore Taranaki histories, including the invasion of Parihaka. Her new book, Te Motunui Epa (BWB Books, 2022), was shortlisted for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in the illustrated non-fiction category. Along with Hana Buchanan and Debbie Broughton, Rachel is also member of Te Aro Pā poets. A former journalist, Rachel has also documented the collapse of newspapers in the history-memoir, Stop Press: the last days of newspapers. Download a transcript of this talk: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/files/pdfs/new-lenses-history-talk-rachel-buchanan-transcript.pdf

Dad and daughter Rajorshi & Leela Chakraborti, dreamed up the plot for a children's book on walks together during the first lockdown. Leela was just 8 years old then. Now, their book The Bad Smell Hotel, has just been published. It is set in the future, where robots do everything for humans, but where flatulence afflicts so many people that children have to leave their families and live in Bad Smell Hotels. The hero, Jerry, manages to resolve the crisis. Raj is the author of six novels, one of which was longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Leela is 11 now, at intermediate school, and they both join Kathryn with their story.

New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey has taken out the top fiction award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Announced at the Aotea Centre last night, she won for her novel The Axeman's Carnival. It's the second time Chidgey has won the $64,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction. She spoke with Ingrid Hipkiss.

Celebrated New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey last night won a $64,000 fiction prize for her latest novel, The Axeman's Carnival. Winners of this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards were announced at a ceremony in Auckland. The judges described the book as unique: poetic, profound and a powerfully compelling read from start to finish." Other big winners at the awards were Alice Te Punga Somerville, who won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry with Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised. Broadcaster Nick Bollinger won the Booksellers Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction with Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand. And historian Ned Fletcher won the general Non-Fiction Award for his work, The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi. Spokesperson Jenna Todd spoke with Ingrid Hipkiss.

The short list has been announced for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards with 16 books making the final cut. That's been whittled down from a longlist of 44 books, chosen from a record 191 entries - up 20 percent on last year. The categories include fiction, poetry, illustrated non-fiction and general non-fiction, with organisers praising a line-up rich in tales of tension, distrust and revenge. Many of the books also reflect current debates about identity and our place in the world. Ockham Book Awards spokesperson Jenna Todd spoke to Guyon Espiner.  

Three generations of talented poets come together to share work from their new collections, and to talk with each other about the literary influences, inheritances and preoccupations that have informed their practice. What connects them and what separates them? Kevin Ireland brings us Just Like That: New Poems; Anne Kennedy, the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards-shortlisted The Sea Walks into a Wall; and Tayi Tibble, the Ockham Awards-shortlisted Rangikura. A triumph of collections from three astonishing poetry masters. Supported by Deadly Ponies. FRIDAY 26 AUGUST – 2.00-3.00PM LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE

Briar Wood has reimagined the lives of Rongo and Te Rangahau, two 19th century tu puna of her iwi, Ngapuhi, in a new collection of time travelling poetry.Rongo was the daughter of leader and warrier Hongi Hika and married another, Hoone Heke. Te Rangahau lived on the Hokianga with her husband, stevedore John Leaf, and cared for their twelve children. Briar's also a writer of fiction and essays, and now lives in Whangaarei after growing up in South Auckland and working in Britain. Briar's been shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and her poetry widely published and anthologised. Briar Wood tells Lynn how this collection is very personal. It also stretches across time into today's world with poetry about contemporary Te Tai Tokerau.

Novelist and playwright Whiti Hereaka received the top prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this week for her novel Kurangaituku. 

A Wellington novelist and playwright - Whiti Hereaka -  has won Aotearoa's richest writing prize. The Jann Medlicott Acorn prize, worth 60,000 dollars, was awarded at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in Auckland on Wednesday night. Her novel Kurangaituku was described as extraordinary, unashamedly literary, and utterly innovative. Hereaka spoke to Morning Report.  

Alison & Ineka discuss the four General Non-fiction finalists of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The winners will be announced on 11 May - visit nzbookawards.nz for updates on the livestreamed awards ceremony. For more details of the shortlisted titles in the General Non-Fiction category, visit their website: bit.ly/3qs9Q0v or read extracts from each title with the Ockhams General Non-Fiction Sampler (PDF): https://bit.ly/3Mr67ZZ Explore the full 2022 longlist here: bit.ly/3D4WKeV and request them all via Auckland Libraries catalogue. All books discussed in this episode of Books and Beyond can be requested via the Auckland Libraries catalogue: The mirror book / Charlotte Grimshaw / published 2021 by Penguin Random House / Adult Non-Fiction – Memoir: https://bit.ly/399yMnX From the centre: a writer's life / Patricia Grace / published 2021 by Penguin Random House / Memoir: https://bit.ly/3rIxoyO The Alarmist: Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change / Dave Lowe / published 2021 by Te Herenga Waka University Press / Memoir: https://bit.ly/3vABQB9 Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa / Vincent O'Malley / published 2021 by Bridget Williams Books / New Zealand History: https://bit.ly/3L8TTVB

Alison & Ineka discuss the four fiction finalists of the 2022 NZ Book Awards. The winners of the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be announced on 11 May. For more details of the shortlisted titles for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, visit their website: https://bit.ly/3qs9Q0v or read extracts from each with the Ockhams Fiction Sampler (PDF): https://bit.ly/35542mi Explore the full 2022 longlist here: https://bit.ly/3D4WKeV and request via Auckland Libraries catalogue. All books discussed in this episode of Books and Beyond can be requested via the Auckland Libraries catalogue: Kurangaituku / Whiti Hereaka / published 2021 by Huia Publishing / Adult Fiction NZ and OverDrive/Libby: https://bit.ly/3tzLBQ9 Entanglement / Bryan Walpert / published 2021 by Mākaro Press / Adult Fiction NZ: https://bit.ly/36gt6rj A Good Winter / Gigi Fenster / published 2021 by Text Publishing / Adult Fiction NZ, OverDrive/Libby and BorrowBox: https://bit.ly/3txfuk8 Greta and Valdin / Rebecca K. Reilly / published 2021 by / Adult Fiction NZ and OverDrive/Libby: https://bit.ly/3rC8scW

The shortlists for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. That's four books in four categories -- fiction, poetry, general nonfiction and illustrated nonfiction -- chosen from 40 longlisted titles. Once again this year, small presses and academic publishers dominate the shortlist, this despite our commercial publishers being responsible for a lion's share of new books. All but three of the shortlisted titles are by women. New Zealand Book Awards Trust spokesperson Paula Morris spoke to Susie Ferguson.

In this episode, I chat with Jenna Todd, manager and bookseller at Time Out Bookstore.Jenna Todd (Kāi Tahu) is the manager of Time Out Bookstore in Auckland, which won New Zealand's best bookshop for 2016 and 2017 and was named in the top three bookstores in the world in 2017. She is the chair of Booksellers NZ and is their representative on the Trust. Jenna was the first recipient of the Kobo Booksellers NZ Scholarship in 2014 and was named Young Bookseller of the Year in 2015. She was a fiction judge for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and reviews books monthly on RNZ's Nine to Noon, fortnightly on 95bFM's breakfast show, and was a host on The Spinoff's Papercuts podcast. Established in 1988, in the heart of Auckland's historic Mt Eden Village, Time Out Bookstore is renowned for its excellent curation and eclectic books, occasionally weird window displays, haven-like children's book room, and in-store cat.Time Out BookstoreThe Luminaries, Eleanor CattonBooks published in te reo MāoriKa Whawhai tonu Matou: Struggle without End, Ranginui Walker Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen Support the show (https://paypal.me/TheBookshopPodcast?locale.x=en_US)

Becky Manawatu's debut novel, Auē, garnered critical acclaim and announced her as a compelling new voice in New Zealand fiction, winning the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction and the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction at the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Kiran Dass described Auē as “a beautifully pitched and nuanced hopeful story about the power of love, friendship and family”. Becky is the Robert Burns Fellow for 2021 and hopes to use the opportunity for both personal and professional growth, as she works on a sequel (of sorts) to Auē. Lynn Freeman will quiz Becky about how her meteoric rise to literary fame has affected her approach to writing and life.

Finalists for the country's top book prizes are out this morning. Sixteen works have made it on to the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist list for fiction, poetry, illustrated non-fiction and general non-fiction. Awards trustee Paula Morris spoke to Corin Dann.

The longlist of books that have been selected for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been announced today. Joining Bryan to discuss the longlist is the deputy chair of Booksellers NZ, Jenna Todd.

This year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist has been announced! Journalist, writer and literary editor at Newsroom, Steve Braunias, shares his thoughts on the list with Jesse.

Rebecca Priestley talks about her journeys to Antarctica and the process of bringing them to life in her writing. Priestley is an associate professor at the Centre for Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She is the author of Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica which was recently longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

The 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are taking place tonight and this year absolutely everyone is invited! The ceremony started at 6pm and is being broadcast live on Youtube. We catch up LIVE with Paula Morris, one of the judges straight after the winners have been announced.

Welcome back to Papercuts, our monthly books podcast hosted by Louisa Kasza, Jenna Todd and Kiran Dass.Book newsWomen’s Prize for Fiction shortlist -- the Prize’s 25th year. The shortlist was announced on the Women’s Prize for Fiction social channels:Dominicana by Angie CruzGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoA Thousand Ships by Natalie HaynesThe Mirror and the Light by Hilary MantelHamnet by Maggie O’ FarrellWeather by Jenny Offill#BookshopsAreBack!!Newsroom has a list of retailers around the country.Ockhams Out LoudThe 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards was to be the first event of Festival week and will now be broadcast via the #theockhams YouTube channel.In the lead up over the next few weeks, you can listen to each of the finalists reading from their shortlisted work, with one added each day until the winners are announced at the online ceremony on the evening of Tuesday 12 May. Take a look, and subscribe for updates.Auckland Writers Festival 2020 Winter Online SeriesIncludes Bernardine Evaristo, Lisa Taddeo, Amy McDaid, Anthony Byrt and more.9am on May 3rd and running live once a week for 13 weeks.Three writers including at least two from the 2020 programme will chat with series host Paula Morris, read from their work and answer audience questions.Watch via live the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then on their website.BookBound 2020An 'antiviral' online literary festival, already in progress until 3 May 2020.Includes a number of New Zealand authors, including Freya Daly Sadgrove, Pip Adam Becky Manawatu & Renée, who join literary talent such as Max Porter and Emma Glass from around the world.The festival is raising money for a number of charities, and events are free on the BookBound 2020 YouTube channelVerb CommunityVerb Community members will ensure artists are paid for their work, help create content and experiences and lots of other good stuff. In return, they'll get access to the Verb Community hui where you can feed your ideas into what they do, discounts on ticketed events and festival sessions, and again lots of other good stuff!They launch alongside three new pieces of writing by Sinead Overbye (a reading list on love in isolation), Victor Rodger (love and quite a bit of sex), and essa may ranapiri (gender and language).Book reviewsKD: White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff DyerLK: Torpor by Chris KrausJT: Aue by Becky ManawatuNot booksKD: Record shops!LK: Home Cooking: a podcast from Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway to help you figure out what to cook (and keep you company) during the quarantine. Thanks to Papercuts listener David for the recommendation!Circus of Books on Netflix -- the charming and sometimes heartbreaking story of a middle-class Jewish family who ran a hardcore gay porn bookstore from the eighties up till the time of filming.JT: Brideshead Revisited (1981 TV series)The TBR PileKD: In the Fold and The Temporary by Rachel Cusk, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia LaingLK: You'll enjoy it when you get there: the stories of Elizabeth Taylor, I'm working on a building by Pip Adam, Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno, Fake Baby by Amy McDaid (out June)JT: Ripiro Beach by Caroline Barron (Bateman), Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino (4th Estate). Tennis Lessons by Susannah Dickey (DD)Also mentioned:Green Girl by Kate... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rebecca Priestley talks about her journeys to Antarctica and the process of bringing them to life in her writing. Priestley is an associate professor at the Centre for Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She is the author of Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica which was recently longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

One of the most talented shapeshifters of the New Zealand literary world,Vincent O’Sullivan is a poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, librettist, biographer, editor and critic. His latest work, the secret-laden family saga All This By Chance, is his first novel in 20 years and a frontrunner for this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Reviewer Nicholas Reid called it “as outstanding a novel as has been produced in this country in the last 10 years”. Fergus Barrowman will quiz O’Sullivan on his latest novel, his 60-year career and how he got so darned accomplished. This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

The judges of the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards described Driving to Treblinka as ‘not just a beautifully written book, but an important book, too’ and gave it two non-fiction prizes. Readers know Diana Wichtel as a Listener journalist whose TV reviews and interviews are a consistent highlight of the magazine. Driving to Treblinka is a compassionate, wise memoir about her father, a Holocaust survivor who escaped to Canada and whose life remained a mystery to his estranged children. The truth can set you free but there is always a cost. Diana talks to journalist Philip Matthews.

Chris Tse is a Wellington-based poet whose latest book is titled He's So MASC; his debut collection, How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes, won the Best First Book of Poetry prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Chris' poetry, short fiction and non-fiction has been published in Best New Zealand Poems, Pantograph Punch, Turbine, The Listener, Fishhead and Landfall. He plays a selection of music from the eclectic Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, actress, record producer, and DJ, Björk.

The launch of Selina Tusitala Marsh’s third poetry collection Tightrope, longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, coincided with her taking up the mantle of Poet Laureate – “a wonderful opportunity to extend the poetic page and stage to this nation’s multi-coloured, multi-hued voices”, she said. An extraordinary poet, performer and advocate, Marsh’s work combines a warrior fierceness with humour, and explores the delicate and dangerous ways in which we navigate the abyss of forgotten memory. She speaks with Adam Dudding.

In her most ambitious book to date, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds, Anne Salmond reframes our understanding of NZ. Beginning with the earliest encounters between Māori and European New Zealanders, Salmond suggests that the legacy of those clashes and exchanges provides us with an opportunity to rethink our relationship to the waterways, the land, and each other. Salmond puts forth her thesis with Chris Wikaira.

Writer Hera Lindsay Bird burst onto the literary scene with her 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlisted eponymous poetry collection. Bill Manhire, whose latest collection is Some Things to Place in a Coffin, has made a unique contribution to the canon of NZ poetry, and to the literary landscape more generally. With Paris-based NZ poet Andrew Johnston they discuss the development of the country’s poetry practice, and its likely trajectory. AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL 2017

The government recently announced a proposal to make more of our rivers ‘swimmable' by 2040 – it has attracted significant controversy, demonstrating the level of concern about the state of our rivers among ordinary New Zealanders. In this talk, Catherine Knight, author of New Zealand's Rivers: An environmental history, will provide important context to this debate by exploring some of our complex – and often conflicted – history with rivers since humans first settled in Aotearoa New Zealand. She will argue that knowing our history is an important foundation to forging a better future, both in terms of our environment and our socioeconomic wellbeing. Catherine is an environmental historian. New Zealand's Rivers: An environmental history (Canterbury University Press, 2016) has been longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2017 and was selected as one of the Listener's Best Books for 2016. Her previous book, Ravaged Beauty: An environmental history of the Manawatu (Dunmore Press, 2014), won the J.M. Sherrard major award for excellence in regional and local history, and Palmerston North Heritage Trust's inaugural award for the best work of history relating to the Manawatu. Catherine is a policy and communications consultant and lives with her family on a small farmlet in the Manawatu, where they are restoring the totara forest. Introduction by Chief Historian Neil Atkinson. Recorded at the National Library of New Zealand, 3 April 2017.    

WORD Christchurch Festival Is it ‘language in orbit’ (Seamus Heaney) or does it make you feel ‘physically as if the top of [your] head were taken off’ (Emily Dickinson)? Poetry means something different to everybody. To celebrate National Poetry Day, some of New Zealand’s most distinguished poets will read their work and tell us what poetry is to them. Featuring Bill Manhire, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Fiona Kidman, and special guest Ali Cobby Eckermann(Australia). The MC is Paul Millar, a recent poetry judge of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.