Academy of New Zealand Literature

Congratulations to Alison Wong, 2024 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate, who has received the Burr/Tatham Trust Award recognising her contributions to literature.  Her debut novel As the Earth Turns Silver, a decade in the making, won awards and received international success. In recent years she co-edited, with Paula Morris, A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand – the first-ever anthology of Asian New Zealand creative writing. The Arts Foundation panel describe Alison’s writing as “speaking to the complex richness of our social history and diasporic experiences.”