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Wayne Smith is arguably the finest rugby brain in the world - a man the players he coached dubbed 'The Professor'. Phil Gifford is the first person to be twice voted New Zealand Sports Journalist of the Year.He has reported on every Rugby World Cup since 1987, and on four Commonwealth and one Olympic Games.In 1973 he invented the satirical rugby character 'Loosehead Len', who ran in print for 32 years.As a breakfast radio host at Radio Hauraki, 91ZM, and More FM, he has won two Australasian and 14 New Zealand radio awards.Smithy is his 29th book.
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Elizabeth Smither has written six novels, six collections of short stories and eighteen poetry collections. She has twice won the major award for New Zealand poetry and was the 2001–2003 Te Mata Poet Laureate. In 2004, she was awarded an honorary DLitt from the University of Auckland for her contribution to literature and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. She received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2008. Her most recent book, Night Horse (Auckland University Press, 2017), won the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for Poetry.
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