Past Winners

Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards

1st
Leaves of the Banyan Tree by Albert Wendt (Longman Paul, 1979)
2nd
New Zealand Adrift: The Theory of Continental Drift in a New Zealand Setting by Graeme Stevens (Reed, 1980)
3rd
Indirections: A Memoir by Charles Brasch (Oxford University Press, 1980)

New Zealand Book Awards

Poetry
An Incorrigible Music: A Sequence of Poems by Allen Curnow (Auckland University Press, 1979)
Fiction
Living in the Maniototo by Janet Frame (Braziller, 1979)
Non-Fiction
I Passed This Way by Sylvia Ashton-Warner (Knopf, 1979)