The longlist for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards has been announced. It includes nominees for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, and the General Non-Fiction Award, as well as the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry, and the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction.
Twelve of the 44 longlisted books are by first-time authors, and they are published by a record number of 20 individual publishing houses across the motu.
You'll find most of these books in the library catalogue. Some are already available as e-Books, as talking books on CD, or as e-Audio.
Here are the fiction prize nominees in the library catalogue:
- A Better Place by Stephen Daisley
- Audition by Pip Adam
- Backwaters by Emma Ling Sidnam
- Bird Life by Anna Smaill
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
- Lioness by Emily Perkins
- Pet by Catherine Chidgey
- Ruin & Other Stories by Emma Hislop
- Signs of Life by Amy Head
- Turncoat by Tīhema Baker
Read the full long list on the New Zealand Book Awards Trust website
The short list will be announced on 6 March 2024, and the award ceremony will be held on 15 May 2024.
