More NZ awards news

June 4, 2008

Having taken out the New Zealand Post YA Book Award in recent weeks with Salt, Maurice Gee is again in the running for a major New Zealand prize - the 2008 Esther Glen Award from LIANZA.

Other finalists for this award, won last year by Bernard Beckett’s Genesis, are:

  • Losing It, by Sandy McKay
  • Smashed, by Mandy Hager
  • The Sea-Wreck Stranger, by Anna Mackenzie
  • The Dumpster Saga, by Craig Harrison
  • Time of the Eagle, by Sherryl Jordan

The winner will be announced in Wellington on August 18.

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Meanwhile, across the Tasman…

April 8, 2008

The finalists have been announced for New Zealand’s premier awards - The New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.

Fiction Focus has reviewed all finalists in the Young Adult section:

The awards ceremony will be held in Wellington on 21 May.

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