Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry

Blindsight by Maurice Gee (Penguin, 2005)

Montana Medal for Non-Fiction

Pōhutukawa and Rātā: New Zealand’s Iron-hearted Trees by Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press, 2005)

Fiction

Blindsight by Maurice Gee (Penguin, 2005)

Poetry

Lifted by Bill Manhire (Victoria University Press, 2005)

History

Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s–1950s by Rosemary McLeod (HarperCollins, 2005)

Biography

Dingle: Discovering the Sense in Adventure by Graeme Dingle (Craig Potton Publishing, 2005)

Reference & Anthology

Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine 1988–2004 edited by Damien Wilkins (Victoria University Press, 2005)

Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture

How to Look at a Painting by Justin Paton (Awa Press, 2005)

Environment

Pōhutukawa and Rātā: New Zealand’s Iron-hearted Trees by Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press, 2005)

Illustrative

Contemporary New Zealand Photographers edited by Hannah Holm and Lara Strongman (Mountain View Publishing, 2005)

Readers’ Choice Award (joint)

Blindsight by Maurice Gee (Penguin, 2005)

Readers’ Choice Award (joint)

The Captive Wife by Fiona Kidman (Vintage, 2005)

The NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction

A Red Silk Sea by Gillian Ranstead (Penguin, 2005)

The NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry

Dream Fish Floating by Karlo Mila (Huia, 2005)

The NZSA E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction

Pākehā and the Treaty: Why It’s Our Treaty Too by Patrick Snedden (Random House, 2005)

BPANZ Best Review Page or Programme Award

The Dominion Post

BPANZ Reviewer of the Year Award

Jolisa Gracewood