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NewsWaikato author Catherine Chidgey has been voted the New Zealand public’s favourite author in the world in The Women’s Bookshop’s Top 50 Women Writers of the Last 50 Years survey.
10 October 2025
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NewsBooksellers around the country will celebrate the joy of reading with a host of fanfare events on Aotearoa New Zealand Bookshop Day, Saturday 11 October, as they continue to hold t...
9 October 2025
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NewsThe organisers of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are calling for expressions of interest from members and followers of the children’s literature communit...
29 September 2025
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NewsAllen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand is pleased to announce that the winner of our 2025 Fiction Prize is Tauranga writer, Anne Cleary. Her winning entry, Apple Man, is a hugely engag...
29 September 2025
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NewsThe 16th Ngaios season culminated on Thursday 25th September with a tremendous evening of improv murder mystery alongside the Ngaio Marsh Awards' 2025 winner announcements.
25 September 2025
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NewsWhat do dragons, phoenixes, Tūī, sheep, kunekune pigs, Kiwi and cats have in common? They all feature in new books by local authors to appear on the 2025 Whitcoulls Kids’ Top 50 Bo...
18 September 2025
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NewsA show-stopping celebration of women and their art has been deemed the supreme winner at the 2025 PANZ Book Design Awards.
18 September 2025
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News12 experts are announced today by the New Zealand Book Awards Trust Te Ohu Tiaki i Te Rau Hiringa as the judges of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
16 September 2025
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NewsHe Rārāngi Kaituhi Māori Taumata Rau Ka Whakaeke Atu Ki Rotorua Mo Te Taiopenga Tuawhā o Kupu
15 September 2025
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News‘It fills me with pride to know that Māori literature is flourishing across so many forms through the work of Māori writers...’ In his editorial for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, Hēmi Ke...
13 September 2025
News‘Ka ora taku ngākau i te mōhio e tino ora ana te mātātuhi Māori i ngā kaupapa maha a ngā kaituhi Māori...’ Ka takoto i a Hēmi Kelly, i tana hau ētita motuhake kua tuhia hei whakanu...
13 September 2025
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NewsThe 2025 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa PEN NZ Inc (NZSA) Research Grants have been awarded to four writers in...
11 September 2025
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NewsA programme of powerful voices, local pride and stories to ignite Ōtepoti Dunedin, the city of literature.
8 September 2025
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NewsThe NZSA President of Honour, Charlotte Grimshaw, will deliver the prestigious annual NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Lecture, an event that comments on the literary sector, on October 1...
7 September 2025
NewsThroughout Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, we're excited to welcome author, teacher, translator and Everyday Māori creator Hēmi Kelly (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whaoa) as Kete’s gu...
4 September 2025
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NewsKete pays tribute to Kelly Ana Morey, esteemed author, who died this week after a short illness.
4 September 2025
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NewsThe Frank Sargeson Trust is calling for applications from published New Zealand writers for the 2026 Ireland Wilson Sargeson Fellowships.
3 September 2025
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NewsPage-turning tales that explore people and place fill the 2025 Ngaio Marsh Award shortlists.
31 August 2025
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NewsHachette Aotearoa New Zealand, Little Moa, and the Margaret Mahy Estate are thrilled to announce Emma Collicott as the winner of the Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize for 2025.
27 August 2025
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NewsHachette Aotearoa New Zealand, Little Moa, and the Margaret Mahy Estate are delighted to announce the three shortlisted illustrators for the 2025 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize.
21 August 2025
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NewsThe New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) congratulates Cristina Sanders on winning the NZSA Shaw Writer’s Award 2025.
21 August 2025