The 2024 Ockhams Finalists
Explore the finalists for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in these four digital samplers, with extracts from all sixteen shortlisted books.
Over the next month we’re releasing a new digital sampler every week, each dedicated to a different awards genre: Fiction, Illustrated Non-Fiction, Poetry and General Non-Fiction.
You can view read-only versions at Issuu, the New Zealand Book Awards Trust website, or click on the covers below to download samplers and read at your leisure. Then seek out the complete books in bookshops and libraries countrywide.
….Jann Medlicott Acorn………………………………….. Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand
……..Prize for Fiction……………………………………….Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction
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….Mary and Peter Biggs…..…………………………………..General Non-Fiction Award
…….Award for Poetry…..………………………………….Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand
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'One of writing’s greatest magics is to allow us – to use Kiri Piahana-Wong’s phrase – to slide outside the trap of time.' - David Taylor