Recreation

Literary Prizes & Book Awards

News

October 2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Awards winners announced

September: 2008 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement

The year of adverbs

August: James Tait Black Memorial Prizes have been won by Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben (fiction) and God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill (biography)

August:The Hugo Awards announced

The road to castle Hill
July: The Road to Castle Hill. A High Country Love Story by Christine Fernyhough with Louise Callan, published by Random House NZ has won the Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award - an award which acknowledges the books that booksellers throughout the country have most enjoyed reading, selling and promoting.

Literary prize calendar - lists when prizes are awarded

New Zealand

Writing Prizes

These are awards for essays and/or unpublished works.

International

Authors

Prizes awarded for the author's body of work

Fiction

Genre fiction - Mystery, Horror, Crime, Fantasy and Science Fiction

Lists

New Writers

Non-fiction

Poetry