New Zealand Post Book Awards 2012 Winners announced

Congratulations to the winners of the New Zealand Post Book Awards and indeed to all those selected.

The supreme award, the New Zealand Post Book of the Year, was won by New Zealand's Native Trees by John Dawson and Rob Lucas.  Containing more than 2,300 photographs, this also won the Illustrated Non-Fiction Category.

Other Category winners (links are to our catalogue):

Fiction Category Award
Rangatira by Paula Morris

People's Choice Award
From Under the Overcoat [a short story collection]
by Sue Orr

New Zealand Post Māori Language Award
Tōku Reo, Tōku Ohooho : My Language, My Inspiration
by Chris Winitana

Poetry Category Award
Shift by Rhian Gallagher

General Non-Fiction Category Award
Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook’s Polynesian Navigator
by Joan Druett

Best First Book Awards (announced earlier in the year) were also honoured at the ceremony, see previous post

For more on the winners see:
www.booksellers.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-post-book-awards/2012_winnershttp://www.booksellers.co.nz/awards/new-zealand-post-book-awards/landmark-work-wins-new-zealand-post-book-year