2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Saturday 19 May 2018

Congratulations to Pip Adam for winning the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for her revelatory novel, The New Animals. The New Animals will challenge your imagination and keep your mind reeling well after you have finished reading it.

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has a long and interesting history and has had many great literary entries. Their website has a list of past winners and previous longlists as well as a look into their history.

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List of 2018 winners:

Award	Title	Author	Publisher
Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize	The New Animals	Pip Adam	Victoria University Press
Poetry Award	Night Horse	Elizabeth Smither	Auckland University Press
Illustrated Non-Fiction Award	Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds	Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins	Bridget Williams Books
Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction	Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father	Diana Wichtel	Awa Press
Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction	Baby	Annaleese Jochems	Victoria University Press
Jessie MacKay Best First Book Award for Poetry	Fully Clothed and so Forgetful	Hannah Mettner	Victoria University Press
Judith Binney Best First Book Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction	Caves: Exploring New Zealand's Subterranean Wilderness	Marcus Thomas and Neil Silverwood	Whio Publishing
E.H. McCormick Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction	Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father	Diana Wichtel	Awa Press