June 2, 2009
New Zealand! Having just noted the New Zealand Post winners and the LIANZA finalists, yet another awards short list has been announced in The Land of the Long White Cloud.
This time it’s the Montana Book Awards, which contain a Readers’ Choice component. There is no specific YA award but Kate De Goldi’s The 10PM Question has made the short list of the Fiction category; it’s a title you will have noticed once or twice before. Bernard Beckett also makes an appearance, this time with a politically themed novel.
Winners will be announced on 27 July.
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May 29, 2009

The finalists in the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) have been announced. Fiction and illustration awards:
Esther Glen Award (Fiction)
Russell Clark Award (Illustration)
All categories here.
The winners will be announced in Auckland on 10 August.
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March 6, 2009
The shortlisted titles for the 2009 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Award were announced this week.
In the Young Adult category, the following are in contention:
The finalists in all categories can be found here.
Winners will be announced in Auckland on 20 May.
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August 19, 2008
Library week in New Zealand was launched last night with the announcement of the winners of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children’s Book Awards.
Winner of the Russell Clark Award for ‘a distinguished contribution to illustrated children’s books’ was Gavin Bishop for his quirky title Rats!
New Zealand’s longest running book prize is the Esther Glen Award, established in 1944. Mandy Hager has won it this year for her YA novel Smashed, which will be reviewed in Fiction Focus shortly. This award went to Bernard Beckett last year for his remarkable novel Genesis.
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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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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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