Ardern launches te reo Māori translation trust
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has launched the Kotahi Rau Pukapuka Trust, which will translate 100 popular fiction books into te reo Māori over the next 10 years. Working...
‘The Bomb’ named book of the year at 2019 NZ Book Awards for Children and YA
The Bomb by author Sacha Cotter and illustrator Josh Morgan (Huia Publishers) has won the Margaret Mahy book of the year award, as well as the picture book award, at...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2019 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best crime novel This Mortal Boy (Fiona Kidman,...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2019 longlist announced
The longlist for this year’s Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced, featuring a work begun by Ngaio Marsh herself during the Second World War. Marsh's...
Storylines National Awards 2019 winners announced
The Storylines Children’s Literature Trust of New Zealand has announced the 2019 winners of three national awards. The winning entries in each category are: Joy Cowley Award for picture book...
Storylines announces notable NZ children’s books for 2019
The Storylines Children’s Trust has announced its 2019 Notable Books list for children’s and young adult books published in the previous year. Notable books in each category are: Picture books...
Pasifika dual-language resources win NZ award
In New Zealand, a series of books published by the Ministry of Education (MoE) to help Pasifika children with literacy has won the Pacific Service Excellence Award, as part of...
Publishers, authors welcome NZ Copyright Act review
The New Zealand government’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has released an issues paper on the review of the Copyright Act, which has been welcomed by both the Publishers...
CLNZ announces recipients of 2018 Contestable Fund Grants
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) has announced the recipients of this year’s round of the Contestable Fund Grants. The fund supports strategic projects that demonstrate New Zealand’s publishing growth and...
Māori, Pasifika writers to travel to London for Oceania exhibition
Five New Zealand writers will travel to the UK in November to showcase Māori and Pasifika literature alongside the Oceania art exhibition at the Royal Academy London, reports Booksellers NZ. Creative...
Rae wins 2018 Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Award
Murray Rae has won the NZ$10,000 (AU$9120) Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit Literary Award for his book Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place (Baylor University Press). Rae is an architect...
PRH NZ sells basketballer’s memoir to US
Penguin Random House New Zealand (PRH NZ) has sold North American rights to My Life, My Fight by New Zealand basketball player Steven Adams to Hachette Books in the US. ...
Ngaio Marsh Award 2018 shortlist announced
The shortlists for the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Award for New Zealand crime fiction have been announced. The shortlisted works in each category are: Best crime novel Marlborough Man (Alan Carter,...
New Zealand’s best lookin’ books: PANZ Book Design Awards
The winners of this year's Publishers Association of New Zealand Book Design Awards were announced in Auckland on 22 July: Gerard Reid Award for Best Book, sponsored by Nielsen Book...
Excuse us while we take a moment…
We’re pretty snowed under here at Bookseller+Publisher headquarters, putting the finishing touches on the July issue after getting out this week’s bumper issue of the Weekly Book Newsletter. Last week,...