2026 Awards
Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction
Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
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Black Sugarcane
Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Satupa‘itea, Faleālupo, Aleipata, Tuaefu)
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BookHub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction
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Atlas of the New Zealand Wars: Volume One 1834-1864, Early Engagements to the Second Taranaki War
Derek Leask
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Books of Mana: 180 Māori-Authored Books of Significance
edited by Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui), Angela Walhalla (Kāi Tahu) and Jeanette Wikaira (Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāpuhi)
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Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and Across the British Empire
Charlotte Macdonald
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Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris
Michele Leggott and Catherine Field-Dodgson (Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Te Aitanga a Mahaki)
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Mark Adams: A Survey – He Kohinga Whakaahua
Sarah Farrar
Massey University Press and Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki
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Takoto ai te Marino: Selected Works 2018-2025
Raukura Turei (Ngā Rauru Kītahi, Taranaki, Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki), Greta van der Star, Vanessa Green and Katie Kerr
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The Collector: Thomas Cheeseman and the Making of the Auckland Museum
Andrew McKay and Richard Wolfe
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Whenua
edited by Felicity Milburn, Chloe Cull (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi te Ruahikihiki) and Melanie Oliver
General Non-Fiction Award
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50 Years of the Waitangi Tribunal: Whakamana i te Tiriti
edited by Carwyn Jones (Ngāti Kahungunu, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki) and Maria Bargh (Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa)
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An Uncommon Land: From an Ancestral Past of Enclosure Towards a Regenerative Future
Catherine Knight
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Hardship and Hope: Stories of Resistance in the Fight Against Poverty in Aotearoa
Rebecca Macfie
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The Covid Response: A Scientist's Account of New Zealand's Pandemic and What Comes Next
Shaun Hendy
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The Hollows Boys: A Story of Three Brothers & the Fiordland Deer Recovery Era
Peta Carey
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The Middle of Nowhere: Stories of Working on the Manapōuri Hydro Project
Rosemary Baird
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The Welcome of Strangers: A History of Southern Māori
Atholl Anderson
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This Compulsion in Us
Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, Pākehā)
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