The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are the country’s premier literary honours for books written by New Zealanders.
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.
Emma Wehipeihana (Espiner) (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) has taken home one of the Mātātuhi Foundation Best First Book Prizes, the E H McCormick Prize for General Non-Fiction, named for the late Eric McCormick, the eminent historian and biographer of Frances Hodgkins.
The judges said that her “engaging, eloquent, witty and sometimes confronting memoir is an extremely impressive first book."
Emma Wehipeihana’s engaging, eloquent, witty and sometimes confronting memoir is an extremely impressive first book. It is structured as a series of powerful essays about her journey as a wahine Māori through both her early life and her time in medical school. Emerging as a doctor, she recounts with candour and wry humour the racism she and other Māori experience, and she highlights, in an infinitely readable way, the structural inequalities in the health system.
For the full range of winners visit the Ockham New Zealand Book Award website.
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