News

• 2017 Ockham Book Awards Longlist Announced

  22-11-2016

  Congratulations to the Ockham longlisters, including for fiction ANZL Fellows C.K Stead and Owen Marshall, and ANZL Members Tracey Slaughter, Frankie McMillan, Catherine Chidgey, Emma Neale; for poetry ANZL Fellow  Vincent O’Sullivan, and Members Tusiata Avia, Diana Bridge, Chris Price; for illustrated nonfiction Members Sarah Laing and Gregory O’Brien. Full details here.

• New Book – ‘The Wish Child’ by Catherine Chidgey

  18-11-2016

  At the heart of Catherine Chidgey’s new novel The Wish Child (Victoria UP), an enigmatic voice tells the story of corrupt ideology, the resilience of the human spirit and German families caught up in a nation’s dream. Read more here.

• Loss of Writer James McNeish

  15-11-2016

  It is with great sadness we share the news of the passing of acclaimed author and ANZL Fellow Sir James McNeish. Prolific novelist, playwright and biographer, whose work received both national and international critical acclaim, he has passed away days after completion of his final novel Breaking Ranks. The world has lost a bright, creative and extraordinary man.

• New Book – ‘The Shops’ by Steve Braunias and Peter Black

  14-11-2016

  With text by Steve Braunias and 44 colour images by Peter Black, The Shops (Luncheon Sausage Books) is a tender portrait of New Zealand shops and the effects of the online and stripmall revolution. More information here.

• 2016 Laureate Awards Announced

  14-11-2016

  ANZL member Eleanor Catton has been awarded the prestigious $50,000 Laureate Award for writing. Congratulations! For a full list of New Zealand Arts Awards recipients see here.

• 2016 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Announced

  14-11-2016

  ANZL member Kate Camp has been awarded the 2016 Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton, France. Congratulations! For a full list of New Zealand Arts Awards recipients see here.

• Book Launch 26th Nov – ‘Someone’s Mana’

  12-11-2016

  Someone’s Mana (Hatje Cantz) edited with foreward by ANZL Fellow Witi Ihimaera, explores the concept of mana through a lavish photobook of East Coast images by Michael Krzanich, with introduction and poetry by Haare Williams. Launch is Sat 26th Nov 5-8pm at the Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne, with discussion, reading, signings, refreshments and music. Publication information here.

• Anna Smaill’s ‘The Chimes’ – Winner of World Fantasy Award

  31-10-2016

  Congratulations to ANZL member Anna Smaill, whose book The Chimes has won Best Novel at the World Fantasy Awards in Ohio, USA. For the shortlist and categories, see here.

• Fiona Kidman wins 2016 Heritage Book Award

  27-10-2016

  Congratulations to ANZL Fellow Dame Fiona Kidman for her winning novel All Day at the Movies (Penguin/Vintage). Judge Coral Atkinson said the novel ‘illuminates New Zealand’s immediate past and how one family has experienced these years’ and ‘reflects important aspects of our heritage.’ More details here.

• New Book – ‘Late Love’ by Glenn Colquhoun

  27-10-2016

  Glenn’s new memoir Late Love (BWB) is a meeting of the two worlds of writing and medicine, a moving attempt to show what it is, as doctor and writer, to be alongside people. Read more here.

• Stephen Daisley’s ‘Coming Rain’ shortlisted for 2016 Voss Literary Prize

  26-10-2016

  This novel by ANZL member Stephen Daisley recently won the Acorn Foundation Literary Award (Ockham New Zealand Book Awards) and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2016. Congratulations!

• 2016 Prime Minister’s Awards Announced

  13-10-2016

  Congratulations to ANZL Fellow Marilyn Duckworth and Member David Eggleton, two of the three recipients of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. More details here.

• New Book – ‘Daylight Second’ by Kelly Ana Morey

  03-10-2016

  For the first time told in novel form, Kelly Ana Morey’s Daylight Second (HarperCollins) is the incredible story of Phar Lap, the racehorse that became a champion, and then a legend. Read more here.

• Patricia Grace – Supreme Maori Arts Award Winner

  02-10-2016

  ANZL Fellow Dr Patricia Grace has been granted the Creative New Zealand Te Waka Toi 2016 supreme award/Te Tohu Aroha mo Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu. Patricia is widely recognised as a key figure in the emergence of Maori fiction in English since the 1970s. Her work, expressive of Maori consciousness and values, is distinguished also for the variety of Maori people and ways of life it portrays.

• New Book – ‘Mansfield and Me’ by Sarah Laing

  29-09-2016

  Sarah Laing’s much anticipated graphic memoir, Mansfield and Me (Victoria UP) is a playful exploration of publication, parenthood and coming of age set against Mansfield’s dramatic life story. Read more here.