Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement

Not to be confused with the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement is a New Zealand literary award established in 2003 by the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand), the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government. Each winner in three categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry receives a monetary award of NZ $60,000.

Winners

Source:^[1]

2015

Fiction: Roger Hall
Nonfiction: Dame Joan Metge
Poetry: Bernadette Hall

2014

Fiction: Jack Lasenby
Nonfiction: Jock Phillips
Poetry: Ian Wedde

2013^[2]

Fiction: Owen Marshall
Nonfiction: Martin Edmond
Poetry: Michele Leggott

2012

Fiction: Albert Wendt
Nonfiction: Gregory O'Brien
Poetry: Sam Hunt

2011

Fiction: Dame Fiona Kidman
Nonfiction: James Belich
Poetry: Peter Bland

2010

Fiction: Joy Cowley
Nonfiction: James McNeish
Poetry: Cilla McQueen

2009

Fiction: C. K. Stead
Nonfiction: Ranginui Walker
Poetry: Brian Turner

2008

Fiction: Lloyd Jones
Nonfiction: W. H. Oliver
Poetry: Elizabeth Smither

2007

Fiction: Fiona Farrell
Nonfiction: Dick Scott
Poetry: Bill Manhire

2006

Fiction: Patricia Grace
Nonfiction: Judith Binney
Poetry: Vincent O'Sullivan

2005

2004

Fiction: Maurice Gee
Nonfiction: Anne Salmond
Poetry: Kevin Ireland

2003

Fiction: Janet Frame
Nonfiction: Michael King
Poetry: Hone Tuwhare

References

↑ "Previous winners". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
↑ "Winners of 2013 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement". Creative New Zealand. 20 October 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013.

External links

Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement, official website

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