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Awards 2008
MONTANA BOOK AWARDS JULY 2008
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: Grimshaw Wins Montana Medal
Charlotte Grimshaw has proven that literary talent runs in families, by winning the Montana Medal for fiction or poetry for her short story collection, Opportunity.
The daughter of literary great, CK Stead, Charlotte Grimshaw’s winning book is an absorbing series of stories delving into a diverse range of lives which are all interlinked.
The award was accepted by her publisher, Harriet Allan at a gala awards ceremony held in Wellington’s Town Hall tonight. Charlotte Grimshaw is currently overseas.
She said, via her publisher, that she was pleased Opportunity had done well.
‘It’s a book centred on New Zealand, and it’s all about our New Zealand stories. Each story is written in the first person, and part of the point of the book is to describe and convey the unique New Zealand voice.’
This year’s Montana New Zealand Book Awards judges’, Lynn Freeman, David Elworthy and Tim Corballis said Opportunity was a clear winner for the breadth and ambition of its design, the layers of its meaning, and the multiplicity of reading experiences it affords.
‘By turns touching, funny, dark, and redemptive, this is a book for reading through then re-reading in a different order, for following clues, for setting aside and thinking about, and for getting lost in.’
Charlotte Grimshaw also took the BPANZ Reviewer of the Year Award at tonight’s ceremony.
Janet Hunt has won the 2008 Montana Medal for Non-fiction for a book that evokes both national celebration and sorrow; the story of our wetlands.
Wetlands of New Zealand – A Bitter-Sweet Story, written over many years and designed by the author herself, is a stunning and touching insight into these beautiful (and broken) eco-systems and their inhabitants.
Judges’ convenor, Lynn Freeman said while all the category winning titles exemplified excellence in their fields, their decision to name the overall Non-fiction winner was made in a heartbeat.
‘The very best Non-fiction is a delicate balance of facts and research, and a sense of the writer and their passion for their subject. When the story told also brings to our attention as a nation, something significant that has been overlooked, we really can’t ask for more.
‘Janet Hunt’s Wetlands of New Zealand has achieved all of these things, and many readers, we are sure, will feel galvanised to explore these revealed mysteries for themselves.’
The winners of the country’s most prestigious awards for contemporary writing were chosen from more than 220 books submitted.
The complete list of 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards winners is as follows:
Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry winner and Fiction category winner:
Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw (Random House)
Fiction runner-up: Edwin & Matilda by Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Group (NZ))
Poetry winner: Cold Snack by Janet Charman (Auckland University Press)
Montana Medal for Non-Fiction winner and Environment category winner:
Wetlands of New Zealand – A bitter-sweet story by Janet Hunt (Random House NZ)
Biography winner: The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor by Judy Siers (Millwood Heritage Productions Ltd)
History winner: Te Tau Ihu O Te Waka Volume II: Te Ara Hou – The New Society by Hilary and John Mitchell (Huia Publishers)
Reference and Anthology winner: A Nest of Singing Birds: 100 years of the New Zealand School Journal by Gregory O’Brien (Learning Media Ltd)
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture winner: Mau Moko: The World of Māori Tattoo by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku with Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua and Rolinda Karapu (Penguin Group (NZ))
Illustrative winner: Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle Morning by Jennifer Hay, with Ron Brownson, Chris Knox and Laurence Aberhart, designed by Aaron Beehre (Christchurch Art Gallery)
Each category winner was presented with a prize of $5,000. The winners of the Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry (formerly called the Deutz prize) and the Montana Medal for Non fiction were each presented with an additional prize of $10,000. The runner-up in the Fiction category received $2,500. The Readers’ Choice Award carries a monetary prize worth $1,000.
Maori Language Prize announced at Montana New Zealand Book Awards
A short story collection written in Te Reo Māori made history this year by winning the inaugural Māori Language Prize at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Editors Piripi Walker and Huriana Raven were presented with the $5,000 prize for their book Te Tū a Te Toka: He Ieretanga nō ngā Tai e Whā.
The judge of the award, Mr. Hone Apanui, says the winning book is ‘especially notable is the use of iwi vernacular, the keen observation and the turn of phrase, which rings clear and true in every piece of writing. How similar experiences can be told in a range of voices and appear fresh each time is remarkable.’
New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards
The Best First Book awards for Non-fiction, Poetry, and Fiction were established by the New Zealand Society of Authors with the aim of encouraging new writers and their publishers.
The NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction goes to The Blue by Mary McCallum (Penguin Group (NZ))
The Blue also wins this years Reader’s Choice Award.
Ms Freeman says this book is such an accomplished piece of writing that it has also earned a place in the Fiction category shortlist this year.
‘We only rarely find a first-time novelist who can write with such precision, maturity and real emotional insight.’
Jessica Le Bas wins the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry for her collection, Incognito (Auckland University Press).
‘Incognito is a book whose poems are sensitive to rhythm as well as the play of words, and letters, on the page. Le Bas is willing to employ a range of forms and acknowledged influences to match the wide-ranging interest of her subject matter, and to allow a range of voices to speak through her work,’ says Ms Freeman.
The NZSA E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction goes to The Great Sacred Forest of Tāne – Te Wao Tapu Nui a Tane: A Natural Pre-History of Aotearoa New Zealand by Alan Clarke (Reed Publishing).
‘This study of the historical uses of New Zealand’s native flora is the culmination, one suspects, of a life’s work and deserves the highest praise,’ says Ms Freeman.
Each NZSA Best First Book Awards category winner receives $2,500.
Book Publishers Association (BPANZ) Reviewer and Review Page or Programme Awards
The BPANZ Review Awards recognise the vital importance of articulate, responsible, informed criticism in maintaining a healthy literary culture.
The judges this year were writer, critic and former BPANZ Review Awards winner, David Eggleton, and publisher, Elizabeth Caffin.
Charlotte Grimshaw won the BPANZ Reviewer of the Year award ahead of finalists, fellow New Zealand Listener writer’s Jolisa Gracewood and Paula Morris.
The judges said, Charlotte Grimshaw reviews with a distinctive and welcome rigour.
‘She refuses to condescend to either author or reader, and we were impressed by her understanding that good fiction always worries away at serious moral issues. In sum, she demonstrates the analytical ability to carefully unpack a book, to show us its heart — or lack of it.’
A special acknowledgment was given to Iain Sharp’s, ‘cleverly-worded, knowledgeable and consistently emotionally-engaged’ sequences of short writing in the Sunday Star-Times. And a further special acknowledgment for the best long review was given to Jolisa Gracewood’s ‘sympathetic treatment of Elizabeth Knox’s complex novel, Dreamquake’.
The BPANZ Reviewer of the Year receives a $1,000 prize.
The overall winner of the BPANZ Best Review Page or Programme Award goes to the New Zealand Listener.
The judges said they were especially impressed by the New Zealand Listener for its regular eight pages of quality reviewing, always artfully arranged and carefully selected so as to establish a sense of, not just what issues are important in a rapidly evolving cultural landscape, but also to invite the reader’s involvement.
‘In the New Zealand Listener, books matter and are seen to matter.’
Special acknowledgment went to The Sunday Star-Times ‘for the calibre of its reviewers and for the stylish layout of the particular book pages submitted, calculated to draw the mainstream browser in.’
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Cold Snack
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Author:
Janet Charman
Published by:
Auckland University Press
Winner of the Montana 2008 Poetry Award.
This immensely readable collection is among the most accessible well loved poet Janet Charman has written. Her poems always emerge out of ordinary daily experience, the life with which her readers are only too familiar. By illuminating this world she broadens perceptions and understandings without romance or melodrama.
The stunning first part of
Cold Snack
explores the pains and pleasures (mostly the pains) of becoming a schoolteacher in midlife;
the second, a single long sequence, 'Televisioner', recalls a period spent as receptionist for a television broadcaster.
First published April 2007.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780790319636
Nest of Singing Birds : One Hundred Years of the New Zealand School Journal
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NZ$ 60.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Gregory O'Brien
Published by:
Learning Media Ltd
Winner Montana Reference and Anthology Award 2008
The School Journal will be 100 years old in May 2007.
A Nest of Singing Birds: One hundred years of the New Zealand School Journal
- a fullcolour, lavishly illustrated book by award-winning writer Gregory O'Brien - celebrates, in words and images, the publication that over the last hundred years has shaped the country we live in.
"A nest of singing birds" is how the School Journal office was once described to poet and Journal editor Alistair Campbell.
Over the course of its history, the School Journal has attracted work from some of New Zealand's greatest writers and artists, among them Margaret Mahy, James K. Baxter, Janet Frame, Rita Angus, Russell Clark, and Dick Frizzell.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781921150357
Out of the Egg
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Tina Matthews
Published by:
Walker Books Australia
WINNER OF BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK AWARDS 2008
This is a reworked version of the traditional tale of the hardworking, unaided Little Red Hen who befriends the offspring of the lazy cat, a rat and a pig. Together they play and, by the end of the day, each baby learns a new lesson in forgiveness and sharing.
First published 2007.
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9781877375132
Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle Morning - Winner Montana Illustrative Award 2008
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NZ$ 80.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Bill Hammond (designer Aaron Beehre; essays by Jennifer Hay, Ron Brownson, Chris Knox & Laurence Abergart)
Published by:
Christchurch Art Gallery
A spectacular publication tracing the career of one of New Zealand’s most sought-after contemporary painters. Taking its title from a line in Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, Jingle Jangle Morning reveals the development of Bill Hammond’s practice – from his frenetic, music-inspired work of the 1980s, through the rock surrealism of the 1990s, to the evolution of his signature bird paintings.
First published July 2007.
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9781877361753
Dead Dan's Dee
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NZ$ 17.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Phyllis Johnston
Published by:
Longacre Press
In 1924, thirteen-year-old Dee is living with her mother and aunt: her father died during World War One. Although she misses her father, Dee is happy enough until she is separated from her mother and her aunt, both of whom, falling very ill, have to go to a sanatorium for medical care. Dee is thrust into a Wellington children's Refuge, where an authoritarian Assistant Matron makes her life a misery, and the rules of the institution suffocate Dee's academic ambitions and her self-expression. Soon Dee is shocked to learn that her aunt and her mother have tuberculosis: they've concealed the nature of their illness from her. As was common at the time, they treat her like a child when she feels she is mature enough to be granted some say in the direction of her life. Dee is a bright girl, whose memories of her solider father, and her love for reading and sketching help to sustain her through the arduous times at the Refuge, and her sense of ...
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9781869419028
Rats!
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Gavin Bishop
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
DoP 2007 NZ
Rats! is a quirky, lively fun story with stunning illustrations. Polly Piper's house is infested with rats - they are everywhere. She calls in an exterminator (closely resembling the Pied Piper) who leads them all away. When they go, Polly finds her life is empty and boring. Miserable, they plead to come back - so of course Polly agrees - and they all live happily ever after! This book stands out for its finely detailed and exciting illustrations - they are beautiful and will give readers plenty to discover and delight in. SHORTLISTED PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY NZ POST BOOK AWARDS 2008
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869419301
Tahi: One Lucky Kiwi H/B
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NZ$ 30.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Melanie Drewery (illus John O'Reilly and Ali Teo)
Published by:
Random House New Zealand Ltd
WINNER OF PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK AWARDS 2008
This is the true story of the remarkable team effort to save a kiwi that lost its leg. The fictional narrator of the story is a schoolboy who is doing a project on kiwi. This is very much a multi-layered story with the tale of the kiwi running alongside the story of the boy and his attempts to impress his teacher. As well as those stories, great factual detail about kiwi appears in the boy's notebook on every spread.
Weta Workshop, the Artificial Limb Centre and Wellington Zoo all joined forces to provide this kiwi with an artifical leg. This is a truly amazing conservation story.
First published 2007.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869692940
Te Tau Ihu O Te Waka - A History of Maori of Nelson and Marlborough. Volume 2 : Te Ara Hou - The New Society
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NZ$ 95.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Hilary & John Mitchell
Published by:
Huia Publishers
Te Ara Hou - The New Society
is the second volume in the history of Mâori in Nelson and Marlborough. This history details Mâori participation in the European settlement society, from commitment to Christianity to enthusiasm for commerce and relationships with Europeans. It shows how Mâori fared under European institutions, struggled to survive and how Mâori culture and language were swamped by assimilation and Anglicisation.
First published 2007.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781869438050
What is a Fish?
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NZ$ 17.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Feana Tu'Akoi (designer Vasanti Unka)
Published by:
Scholastic New Zealand
A series of statements covering different aspects of what makes up a fish, in an effort to find out exactly what a fish has that is unique.
First published 2007.
Shortlisted Non-Fiction Category NZ Post Book Awards 2008.
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