Ockham New Zealand Book Awards winners announced!

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards had authors and publishers from around the country gathering last night in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Warm congratulations to Vincent O'Malley who won the General Non-Fiction Award for the third instalment in his New Zealand Wars trilogy, Voices From the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa. The judges noted that:

Vincent O’Malley’s book meets all the criteria for a great work of non-fiction. It is the fruit of close historical research and accessible to a wide readership ... O’Malley creates a coherent history of the New Zealand Wars, gives greater attention to wahine than earlier historians have, and deals carefully with contested events.

A very special mention also to Lucy Mackintosh and her book Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland which was shortlisted for the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction. You can read an extraordinary review by Emmy Rākete here on Newsroom.

BWB warmly congratulates all of the winners, publishers and shortlisters for the 2022 awards. Read more on the winners here.