New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012 finalists announced

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The finalists have been announced for this year's New Zealand Post Book Awards, see the Booksellers NZ website for more details:  http://bit.ly/Lie0yG.

 

Finalists

Fiction 

• From under the over coat by Sue Orr
• Rangatira by Paula Morris
• The trouble with fire by Fiona Kidman

Poetry

• The leaf-ride by Dinah Hawken
• Shift by Rhian Gallagher
• Thicket by Anna Jackson

Illustrated Non-Fiction

• A micronaut in the wide world: The imaginative life and times of Graham Percy by Gregory O'Brien
• New Zealand film - an illustred history by Diane Pivac, Frank Stark, and Lawrence McDonald
• New Zealand's native trees by John Dawson and Rob Lucas
• Playing with Fire: Auckland Studio Potters Society Turns 50 by Peter Lange and Stuart Newby
• Whatu Kākahu / Māori Cloaks by Awhina Tamarapa
  

General Non-Fiction

•  Bligh: William Bligh in the South Seas by Anne Salmond
• The Broken Book by Fiona Farrell
• The Hungry Heart: Journeys with William Colenso by Peter Wells
• So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder That Shocked the World by Peter Graham
• Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator by Joan Druett

Key Dates

• 6  June 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards FINALIST ANNOUNCEMENT
• 6 June 2012 Readers’ Choice Award VOTING OPENS
• 27 July 2012 NATIONAL POETRY DAY
• 6 July 2012 Readers’ Choice Award VOTING CLOSES, 5pm.
• 1 August 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards WINNERS ANNOUNCED.
• 2 August 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards WINNERS EVENT.