Showing posts with label Montana NZ Book awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montana NZ Book awards. Show all posts
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
More information about the Montana Book Awards
The Montana Book Awards website has published the full list of winners. You can also read the Judges report. (441kb PDF)
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Montana Book awards winners
The 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards winners are as follows:Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry winner and Fiction category winner: Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins (Bloomsbury).
Montana Medal for Non-Fiction winner and Biography category winner: Rita Angus: An Artist's Life by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press).
Environment category winner: A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century edited by Ian J Graham (Geological Society of New Zealand).
History category winner: Buying the Land, Selling the Land by Richard Boast (Victoria University Press).
Reference and Anthology category winner: Collected Poems 1951-2006 by CK Stead (Auckland University Press).
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture category winner: Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston (Penguin Group New Zealand).
Illustrative category winner: Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance by Len Castle (Lopdell House Gallery).
Maori Language Award: He Pataka Kupu te kai a te rangatira compiled by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo (Penguin Group New Zealand)
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Montana New Zealand Book Awards Fiction Finalist Makes History
Debut novelist, Eleanor Catton is a finalist in this year’s Montana New Zealand Book Awards for her book, The Rehearsal; a work that has launched her onto the international stage, being snapped up by major-league publishers in the US and UK.
Announced today, Catton is one of five fiction finalists, a category described as showing “variety and sophistication” by 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards judges’ convenor, Dr. Mark Williams. It also includes Kate De Goldi’s The 10PM Question. Already the Book of the Year at this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards, this age-defying book’s Montana shortlisting makes history as the first to be simultaneously selected for both the children’s and adult’s national awards.
“The fiction finalists take us inside the land of teenage anxieties and excitations, a world where emotion is physical and sex is as ubiquitous as thought, and where adult codes cannot overwhelm the force of desire. We even enter the worlds of science and political correctness.
“Last year's publishing crop was rich and various. We enjoyed lavish books on food, domestic architecture, gardening and the arts; challenging fiction and poetry; gripping biography and impressive works of history. All are evidence that the literary culture of this country is not about to roll over and die in the face of hard economic times,” says Dr Williams.
This year’s Poetry category finalists are also stand-outs.
“Something significantly new has been achieved in poetic practice in this country. This year produced collections of individual poems and sequences that will stay in the minds of readers.”
The judging panel, on which Williams is joined by novelist and reviewer, Jane Westaway and journalist, Margo White, commented that finalist books across all categories represent the culmination of a period of cultural self-awareness and broadening.
“Janet Frame once described New Zealand, somewhat slightingly, as possessing ‘a rich material culture’. In the past this has perhaps gone with a lack of richness in the non-material aspects of culture. If so, many of the books in this year’s awards demonstrate that that lack has been amply satisfied over the last year,” they said.
More than 200 books were submitted for consideration in this year’s Awards.
Now in their 13th year, the Montana-sponsored Awards have a strict set of guidelines. The judging panel takes into account enduring literary merit and overall authorship; quality of illustration and graphic presentation; production values; general design; the standard of editing and the impact of the book on the community.
The judging of New Zealand’s best books published during the 2008 calendar year is carried out across eight categories – Fiction, Poetry, Biography, History, Reference & Anthology, Environment, Illustrative, and Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture.
The full list of finalists in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards by category are:
Fiction:
The Crocus Hour by Charlotte Randall (Penguin Group New Zealand).
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Victoria University Press).
The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi (Longacre Press).
Acid Song by Bernard Beckett (Longacre Press).
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins (Allen & Unwin).
Poetry:
get some by Sonja Yelich (Auckland University Press).
The Lakes of Mars by Chris Orsman (Auckland University Press).
The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt (Victoria University Press).
Biography:
Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press).
The Love School: Personal Essays by Elizabeth Knox (Victoria University Press).
Heaphy by Iain Sharp (Auckland University Press).
Environment:
A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century edited by Ian Graham (Geological Society of New Zealand).
Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany by Brian Turner (Random House New Zealand).
Albatross: Their world, Their Ways by Tui De Roy and Mark Jones (David Bateman Ltd).
History:
Mates & Lovers: A Gay History of New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Random House New Zealand).
First Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking by David Veart (Auckland University Press).
Buying the Land, Selling the Land by Richard Boast (Victoria University Press).
Illustrative:
Peter Peryer: Photographer by Peter Simpson with photos by Peter Peryer (Auckland University Press).
Certain Words Drawn by John Reynolds (Random House New Zealand).
Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance by Len Castle (Lopdell House Gallery).
Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture:
The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand’s Culinary History by Helen Leach (Otago University Press).
Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston (Penguin Group New Zealand).
Art Icons of New Zealand: Lines in the Sand by Oliver Stead (David Bateman Ltd).
Reference and Anthology:
The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art by Christopher Johnstone (Random House New Zealand).
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 5: 1922 edited by Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (Oxford University Press).
Collected Poems 1951–2006 by CK Stead (Auckland University Press).
The winner in each category receives a prize of $5,000. Each category winner is eligible for the Montana Medal for Non-fiction or the Montana Medal for Poetry or Fiction, both of which carry a prize of $10,000.
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards Finalists are:
Fiction:
The Year of the Shanghai Shark by Mo Zhi Hong (Penguin Group New Zealand).
Misconduct by Bridget van der Zijpp (Victoria University Press).
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Victoria University Press).
Poetry:
Everything Talks by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press).
The Propaganda Poster Girl by Amy Brown (Victoria University Press).
The World’s Fastest Flower by Charlotte Simmonds (Victoria University Press).
Non-fiction:
First Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking by David Veart (Auckland University Press).
Mates & Lovers: A Gay History of New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Random House New Zealand).
Nga Tama Toa, The Price of Citizenship – C Company 28 (Māori) Battalion 1939–1945 by Monty Soutar (David Bateman Ltd).
Each NZSA Best First Book Awards category winner receives $2,500.
The principal sponsors of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards are Montana and Creative New Zealand. The awards are managed by Booksellers New Zealand and supported by Book Publishers Association of New Zealand, the New Zealand Society of Authors and Book Tokens (NZ) Ltd.
The winner of the poetry category will be announced on Montana Poetry Day on Friday 24 July 2009.
All other winners will be announced at a gala dinner to be held at the Auckland Museum on Monday 27 July 2009.
Announced today, Catton is one of five fiction finalists, a category described as showing “variety and sophistication” by 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards judges’ convenor, Dr. Mark Williams. It also includes Kate De Goldi’s The 10PM Question. Already the Book of the Year at this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards, this age-defying book’s Montana shortlisting makes history as the first to be simultaneously selected for both the children’s and adult’s national awards.
“The fiction finalists take us inside the land of teenage anxieties and excitations, a world where emotion is physical and sex is as ubiquitous as thought, and where adult codes cannot overwhelm the force of desire. We even enter the worlds of science and political correctness.
“Last year's publishing crop was rich and various. We enjoyed lavish books on food, domestic architecture, gardening and the arts; challenging fiction and poetry; gripping biography and impressive works of history. All are evidence that the literary culture of this country is not about to roll over and die in the face of hard economic times,” says Dr Williams.
This year’s Poetry category finalists are also stand-outs.
“Something significantly new has been achieved in poetic practice in this country. This year produced collections of individual poems and sequences that will stay in the minds of readers.”
The judging panel, on which Williams is joined by novelist and reviewer, Jane Westaway and journalist, Margo White, commented that finalist books across all categories represent the culmination of a period of cultural self-awareness and broadening.
“Janet Frame once described New Zealand, somewhat slightingly, as possessing ‘a rich material culture’. In the past this has perhaps gone with a lack of richness in the non-material aspects of culture. If so, many of the books in this year’s awards demonstrate that that lack has been amply satisfied over the last year,” they said.
More than 200 books were submitted for consideration in this year’s Awards.
Now in their 13th year, the Montana-sponsored Awards have a strict set of guidelines. The judging panel takes into account enduring literary merit and overall authorship; quality of illustration and graphic presentation; production values; general design; the standard of editing and the impact of the book on the community.
The judging of New Zealand’s best books published during the 2008 calendar year is carried out across eight categories – Fiction, Poetry, Biography, History, Reference & Anthology, Environment, Illustrative, and Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture.
The full list of finalists in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards by category are:
Fiction:
The Crocus Hour by Charlotte Randall (Penguin Group New Zealand).
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Victoria University Press).
The 10PM Question by Kate De Goldi (Longacre Press).
Acid Song by Bernard Beckett (Longacre Press).
Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins (Allen & Unwin).
Poetry:
get some by Sonja Yelich (Auckland University Press).
The Lakes of Mars by Chris Orsman (Auckland University Press).
The Rocky Shore by Jenny Bornholdt (Victoria University Press).
Biography:
Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life by Jill Trevelyan (Te Papa Press).
The Love School: Personal Essays by Elizabeth Knox (Victoria University Press).
Heaphy by Iain Sharp (Auckland University Press).
Environment:
A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century edited by Ian Graham (Geological Society of New Zealand).
Into the Wider World: A Back Country Miscellany by Brian Turner (Random House New Zealand).
Albatross: Their world, Their Ways by Tui De Roy and Mark Jones (David Bateman Ltd).
History:
Mates & Lovers: A Gay History of New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Random House New Zealand).
First Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking by David Veart (Auckland University Press).
Buying the Land, Selling the Land by Richard Boast (Victoria University Press).
Illustrative:
Peter Peryer: Photographer by Peter Simpson with photos by Peter Peryer (Auckland University Press).
Certain Words Drawn by John Reynolds (Random House New Zealand).
Len Castle: Making the Molecules Dance by Len Castle (Lopdell House Gallery).
Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture:
The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand’s Culinary History by Helen Leach (Otago University Press).
Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking by Alexa Johnston (Penguin Group New Zealand).
Art Icons of New Zealand: Lines in the Sand by Oliver Stead (David Bateman Ltd).
Reference and Anthology:
The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art by Christopher Johnstone (Random House New Zealand).
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 5: 1922 edited by Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (Oxford University Press).
Collected Poems 1951–2006 by CK Stead (Auckland University Press).
The winner in each category receives a prize of $5,000. Each category winner is eligible for the Montana Medal for Non-fiction or the Montana Medal for Poetry or Fiction, both of which carry a prize of $10,000.
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards Finalists are:
Fiction:
The Year of the Shanghai Shark by Mo Zhi Hong (Penguin Group New Zealand).
Misconduct by Bridget van der Zijpp (Victoria University Press).
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (Victoria University Press).
Poetry:
Everything Talks by Sam Sampson (Auckland University Press).
The Propaganda Poster Girl by Amy Brown (Victoria University Press).
The World’s Fastest Flower by Charlotte Simmonds (Victoria University Press).
Non-fiction:
First Catch Your Weka: A Story of New Zealand Cooking by David Veart (Auckland University Press).
Mates & Lovers: A Gay History of New Zealand by Chris Brickell (Random House New Zealand).
Nga Tama Toa, The Price of Citizenship – C Company 28 (Māori) Battalion 1939–1945 by Monty Soutar (David Bateman Ltd).
Each NZSA Best First Book Awards category winner receives $2,500.
The principal sponsors of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards are Montana and Creative New Zealand. The awards are managed by Booksellers New Zealand and supported by Book Publishers Association of New Zealand, the New Zealand Society of Authors and Book Tokens (NZ) Ltd.
The winner of the poetry category will be announced on Montana Poetry Day on Friday 24 July 2009.
All other winners will be announced at a gala dinner to be held at the Auckland Museum on Monday 27 July 2009.
Friday, 30 January 2009
Judges announced for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards 2009
A senior academic will lead the judging panel in the country’s most prestigious book awards this year. Mark Williams, author and professor of English at Victoria University will judge the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards together with award-winning writer, reviewer and editor, Jane Westaway and literary critic, journalist and editor, Margo White.
This year’s judging panel say the field is rich with established and new writers and there is an especially large number of beautifully produced books to consider.
‘We are looking for excellence across the whole range of New Zealand books dealing with subjects as various as art, cooking, war, gardening, and gay lifestyles. With around 215 books to read and 15 separate prizes to award, we have full reading schedules. We are advised by experts in each of the eight main categories: fiction, poetry, history, biography, reference and anthology, lifestyle and contemporary culture, illustrative, and environment…The judges’ responsibilities are collective and we shall all read and, together with our advisors, debate our judgments across the whole range of books submitted,’ says convenor, Mark Williams.
In selecting finalists and winners, judges take into account each book’s enduring literary merit and overall authorship; quality of illustration and graphic presentation; production values, general design and the standard of editing and the impact of the book on the community, with emphasis on issues such as quality, topicality, public interest, entertainment, cultural and educational values and life span of the book.
For more information about the judges and advisors.
This year’s judging panel say the field is rich with established and new writers and there is an especially large number of beautifully produced books to consider.
‘We are looking for excellence across the whole range of New Zealand books dealing with subjects as various as art, cooking, war, gardening, and gay lifestyles. With around 215 books to read and 15 separate prizes to award, we have full reading schedules. We are advised by experts in each of the eight main categories: fiction, poetry, history, biography, reference and anthology, lifestyle and contemporary culture, illustrative, and environment…The judges’ responsibilities are collective and we shall all read and, together with our advisors, debate our judgments across the whole range of books submitted,’ says convenor, Mark Williams.
In selecting finalists and winners, judges take into account each book’s enduring literary merit and overall authorship; quality of illustration and graphic presentation; production values, general design and the standard of editing and the impact of the book on the community, with emphasis on issues such as quality, topicality, public interest, entertainment, cultural and educational values and life span of the book.
For more information about the judges and advisors.
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Montana Poetry Day Friday 18 July
If you've been into a library this week you'll notice that Montana Poetry Day is coming up tomorrow. Montana Poetry Day is part of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Originally conceived as a way to increase interest in the poetry finalists, the day has taken on a life of its own. It is celebrated all over New Zealand with poetry readings, samplers and posters.Rodney Libraries have been displaying poems and encouraging you to add your favourites to the Poetry Wall. Some libraries have an epic poem where you can add a line or two.
Tomorrow Wellsford Library will host Poetry Hour at 4pm where you can read your poems to an appreciative and supportive audience. All libraries will be giving away poetry samplers with poems from this year's finalists. Look out for poems on the pavement tomorrow as well. A couple of pictures from last year are in our Flickr stream.
We've had the first entries in our Podcast Poetry Competition. Listen to them from the competition website. There's still a few days to left to get your entry in if you're in Years 4-13.
Finally, here's a link to the Montana Poetry Day website where NZ poets have been sharing their poems.
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Montana New Zealand Book Awards - finalists announced
Here's the list of finalists - clicking on the title or author link will take you to the Rodney Libraries catalogue entry where you can reserve the item or just find out a bit more about it. Clicking on the category link will take you through to the NZ Booksellers website with more information about the item.Fiction
"The Blue" by Mary McCallum
"Edwin + Matilda" by Laurence Fearnley
"Luminous" by Alice Tawhai
"Opportunity" by Charlotte Grimshaw
Poetry
"Cold Snack" by Janet Charman
"A Long Girl Ago" by Johanna Aitchison
"The Pop-Up Book of Invasions" by Fiona Farrell
History
"Age of Enterprise: Rediscovering the New Zealand Entrepreneur 1881-1910" by Ian Hunter
"Devils on Horses" by Terry Kinloch
"Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka Volume II: Te Ara Hou - The New Society" by Hilary and John Mitchell
Biography
"The Best Man Who Ever Served the Crown? A Life of Donald McLean" by Ray Fargher
"The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor" by Judy Siers
"Waimarino County & Other Excursions" by Martin Edmond
Reference and Anthology
"Look This Way: New Zealand Writers on New Zealand Artists" edited by Sally Blundell
"A Nest of Singing Birds: 100 years of the New Zealand School Journal" by Gregory O'Brien
"The Transit of Venus" edited by Mary Varnham
Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture
"In Form: New Zealand Graffiti Artists Discuss Their Work" by Elliot O'Donnell
"Mau Moko: The World of Maori Tattoo" by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
"Shot In New Zealand: The art and craft of the Kiwi cinematographer" by Duncan Petrie
Environment
"Southern Alps" by Alison Ballance
"The Surface of the Sea: Encounters with New Zealand's Upper Ocean Life" by Iain Anderson
"Wetlands of New Zealand" by Janet Hunt
Illustrative
"Aberhart" by Laurence Aberhart, with essays by Gregory O'Brien and Justin Paton
"Bill Hammond: Jingle Jangle Morning" by Jennifer Hay, with Ron Brownson, Chris Knox and Laurence Aberhart; designed by Aaron Beehre
"Comma dot dogma" edited by Aaron Kreisler
For more information
"Montana Book Awards entries praised" NZ Herald
"Women dominate fiction list for Montana NZ Book Awards" NZ Herald
"Debut novel shortlisted for Montana" Dominion Post via Stuff
UPDATED Wednesday 11 June 12:52pm
Gosh. There's certainly some opinion out there on the judge's decision to only choose 4 fiction finalists instead of the usual 5. Read about it on the following blogs
"Montana Moans" Leaf Salon
Beattie's Book Blog (There looks to be an ongoing discussion on this blog (one of NZ's best for book-related news) so scroll down to the last post on Tuesday 10 June where the fun starts.)
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