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NewsThis year's Ngaio Marsh Awards longlist has been announced.
11 July 2024
NewsBust school holiday boredom: get great reading ideas and awesome book-inspired activities from the 2024 Finalist Activity Booklet.
8 July 2024
NewsThe WORD Christchurch Festival programme has been announced! Get ready for a dazzling array of words and performance in Ōtautahi Christchurch this August.
3 July 2024
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NewsCongratulations to the winner of our competition celebrating our new look website!
3 July 2024
NewsWelcome to Kete Books' new home! We’re excited to be here. It’s been a big renovation, a few things look quite different so we’ve put together a user guide, especially for those wh...
28 June 2024
NewsIn May, Kaitakawaenga Maatakiwi Wakefield and Pou Kohikohinga (Māori Collections Specialist) Ngapiu Tainui Maclure, Māori Services at Christchurch City Libraries, added an addition...
13 June 2024
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News28 of the very best from Aotearoa! Take a look at the 2024 finalists for the New Zealand Children’s Book Awards for Children and Young Adults!
5 June 2024
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NewsNew Zealander Pip Robertson’s story ‘A River, Then the Road’, the story of a 12-year-old girl abducted by her troubled father, has won the regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize f...
29 May 2024
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NewsThe Ockham New Zealand Book Awards were announced at a ceremony at Auckland’s Aotea Centre last night. Take a look at the list of winners here.
15 May 2024
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NewsHave you ever wondered what happens ‘behind the scenes’ of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards?
15 May 2024
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NewsWe’re delighted to announce that writer, reviewer and WORD Festival Programme Director Kiran Dass is set to join Kete as Editor in Chief in September. We’re also excited to announ...
5 May 2024
NewsMāori owned, independent publisher HUIA was named the Children’s Publisher of the Year for Oceania at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair this week. The award is in recognition of a p...
10 April 2024
NewsThe 2024 Storylines Margaret Mahy National Awards Day was held on Sunday and included the presentation of the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal to Elizabeth Jones and the announcement...
10 April 2024
NewsMark your calendars! This year’s nationwide celebration of poetry is scheduled for Friday 23 August. Registrations and seed funding applications are now open, and event organisers ...
27 March 2024
NewsNot-for-profit organisation Copyright Licensing New Zealand is launching MyCreativeRights, a new platform to help Aotearoa New Zealand's creatives better manage their intellectual ...
27 March 2024
NewsBooks Alive – the programme of large-scale events that bring hundreds of kids at a time in touch with finalist authors in the annual New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young ...
27 March 2024
NewsThe 2024 Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize is open and this year local illustrators are invited to bring The Great Man-Eating Shark to life with colour, adventure and humour.
27 March 2024
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NewsThe NZ Booklovers Award winners were announced today. Books by Nick Davies, Eileen Merriman, David Hill, Sacha Cotter, Carlos Lehnebach, Claire Regnault, Rebecca Rice, Isaac Te Awa...
27 March 2024
NewsTake a look at the brilliant books in this year’s Māori Books | Ngā Pukapuka Māori and Pasifika Books catalogues. These two catalogues bring together an exciting range of recent an...
13 March 2024
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NewsWhile we can’t do justice to the incredible programme of writers at this year’s Auckland Writers Festival in one short article, we’ve rolled up our sleeves and had a go. Here’s a s...
13 March 2024
NewsThe 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist is out!
5 March 2024