Past Winners

Montana New Zealand Book Awards

Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Penguin, 2006)
Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand by Audrey Eagle (Te Papa Press, 2006)
Fiction
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Penguin, 2006)
Poetry
The Goose Bath by Janet Frame (Vintage, 2006)
History
Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific edited by K. R. Howe (David Bateman, 2006)
Biography
Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music by Philip Norman (Canterbury University Press, 2006)
Environment
Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand by George Gibbs (Craig Potton Publishing, 2006)
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
Stitch: Contemporary New Zealand Textile Artists by Ann Packer (Random House, 2006)
Reference & Anthology
Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History 1830–1900 by William Cottrell (Reed, 2006)
Readers’ Choice Award
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Penguin, 2006)
The NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction
The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King (Black Swan, 2006)
The NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry
Secret Heart by Airini Beautrais (Victoria University Press, 2006)
The NZSA E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction
Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History 1830–1900 by William Cottrell (Reed, 2006)
BPANZ Best Review Page or Programme Award
The Listener
BPANZ Reviewer of the Year Award
David Eggleton