Break out the party hats and hoist the streamers! It’s that time of year again: the announcement of the New Zealand Post Book Awards! The full guff can be viewed on the official BookSellersNZ website, but Book of the Year went to Jill Trevelyan’s biography, Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a New Zealand Art Dealer; …
Awards! (Other people’s!) and a Competition!
Last night the 2013 NZ Post Book Awards were announced, with The Darling North by Anne Kennedy taking out Best Book of Poetry, and Helen Heath’s Graft taking out Best First Book of Poetry. Well done Anne and Helen! The open was a really interesting field – the judges decided they couldn’t only shortlist three, …
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