BWB authors Hirini Kaa and Benjamin Kingsbury both received recognition in the book prizes at the 2021 NZHA Conference.
Ben's book The Dark Island: Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island Colony (BWB, 2019) was highly-commended for the Erik Olssen Prize for the Best First Book by an author on any aspect of New Zealand history.
Hirini's Te Hāhi Mihinare: The Māori Anglican Church (BWB, 2020) won the Erik Olssen Prize and was named co-winner of the W.H. Oliver Prize for the Best Book on any aspect of New Zealand History, alongside Bain Attwood's Empire and the Making of Native Title.
Congratulations Hirini and Ben!