Stead, Turner and Walker winners of 2009 NZ PM’s literary awards

4 November 2009

The winners of the New Zealand Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement were announced last week. C K Stead was awarded the prize for fiction; Brian Turner the prize for poetry and Ranginui Walker the nonfiction award. The NZ$60,000 awards (A$47,700) from Creative New Zealand recognise each authors ‘significant contribution...