See the Penguin Random House NZ books shortlisted for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are the country’s premier literary honours for books written by New Zealanders. First established in 1968 as the Wattie Book Awards (later the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards), they have also been known as the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and the New Zealand Post Book Awards.
Bestselling and critically acclaimed works of fiction, illuminating poetry collections, absorbing memoirs, and books that explore our whenua, flora and fauna feature alongside those that celebrate our culinary and artistic heroes and heroines in the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards shortlist.
Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction
General Non-Fiction Award
For the full range of longlisted books visit the Ockham New Zealand Book Award website.
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The 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards winners, including the four Mātātuhi Foundation Best First Book Awards recipients, will be announced at a public ceremony on 15 May during the 2024 Auckland Writers Festival.
Applications are open for the 2025 Penguin Random House Māori and Pacific Publishing Scholarship.
The 2024 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards celebrated a night of artistic brilliance, with Māori and Pasifika designers dominating the stage and Penguin Random House celebrating two wins.
The shortlist for the 2024 Booker Prize has been announced, with three Penguin Random House titles named this year.
The New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a unique celebration of the contribution New Zealand’s children’s authors and illustrators make to building national identity and cultural heritage.
Over the weekend we attended the Booksellers Conference and Award Ceremony
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are the country’s premier literary honours for books written by New Zealanders.
The NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a unique celebration of the contribution New Zealand’s children’s authors and illustrators make to building national identity and cultural heritage.
The most beautifully designed books in Aotearoa have been revealed with the announcement of the 2024 PANZ Book Design Awards finalists.
The NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults are a unique celebration of the contribution New Zealand’s children’s authors and illustrators make to building national identity and cultural heritage.
See the Penguin Random House NZ books shortlisted for the 2024 NZ Booklovers Awards
See the Penguin Random House NZ books longlisted for the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Penguin Random House Australia and BBC studios are thrilled to announce that the Bluey publishing program will expand in 2024 to include three new illustrated chapter books.