Past Winners

New Zealand Post Book Awards

New Zealand Post Book of the Year
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964 by Chris Bourke (Auckland University Press, 2010)
Fiction
The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley (Penguin, 2010)
Poetry
The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp (Victoria University Press, 2010)
General Non-Fiction
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964 by Chris Bourke (Auckland University Press, 2010)
Illustrated Non-Fiction
The Passing World: The Passing of Life: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai by Damian Skinner (Rim Books, 2010)
People’s Choice
Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918–1964 by Chris Bourke (Auckland University Press, 2010)
The NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction
Everything We Hoped For by Pip Adam (Victoria University Press, 2010)
The NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry
Dear Sweet Harry by Lynn Jenner (Auckland University Press, 2010)
The NZSA E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction
Whaikōrero: The World of Māori Oratory by Poia Rewi (Auckland University Press, 2010)