2019 Awards

ACORN FOUNDATION FICTION PRIZE

MARY AND PETER BIGGS AWARD FOR POETRY

ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION AWARD

  • book

    Fight for the Forests: The Pivotal Campaigns that Saved New Zealand’s Native Forests

    Paul Bensemann

    Potton & Burton

  • book

    Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori World, 1880-1910

    Roger Blackley

    Auckland University Press

  • book

    The New Zealand Horse

    Deborah Coddington and Jane Ussher

    Massey University Press

  • book

    Wanted: The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor

    Edited by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith

    Massey University Press

  • book

    Tatau: A History of Sāmoan Tattooing

    Sean Mallon and Sébastien Galliot

    Te Papa Press

  • book

    Mataatua Wharenui: Te Whare i Hoki Mai

    Hirini Mead, Layne Harvey, Pouroto Ngaropo and Te Onehou Phillis

    Huia Publishers

  • book

    Birdstories: A History of the Birds of New Zealand

    Geoff Norman

    Potton & Burton

  • book

    Whatever it Takes: Pacific Films and John O’Shea 1948-2000

    John Reid

    Victoria University Press

  • book

    Down the Bay: A Natural and Cultural History of Abel Tasman National Park

    Philip Simpson

    Potton & Burton

  • book

    Hillary’s Antarctica: Adventure, Exploration and Establishing Scott Base

    Nigel Watson and Jane Ussher

    Allen & Unwin

ROYAL SOCIETY TE APĀRANGI AWARD FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION