Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement

Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement is a New Zealand literary award established in 2003 by the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand), the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government. Each winner in three categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry receives a monetary award of NZ $60,000.

Winners

Source:^[1]

2015

• Fiction: Roger Hall
• Nonfiction: Dame Joan Metge
• Poetry: Bernadette Hall

2014

• Fiction: Jack Lasenby
• Nonfiction: Jock Phillips
• Poetry: Ian Wedde

2013^[2]

• Fiction: Owen Marshall
• Nonfiction: Martin Edmond
• Poetry: Michele Leggott

2012

• Fiction: Albert Wendt
• Nonfiction: Gregory O'Brien
• Poetry: Sam Hunt

2011

• Fiction: Dame Fiona Kidman
• Nonfiction: James Belich
• Poetry: Peter Bland

2010

• Fiction: Joy Cowley
• Nonfiction: James McNeish
• Poetry: Cilla McQueen

2009

• Fiction: C. K. Stead
• Nonfiction: Ranginui Walker
• Poetry: Brian Turner

2008

• Fiction: Lloyd Jones
• Nonfiction: W. H. Oliver
• Poetry: Elizabeth Smither

2007

• Fiction: Fiona Farrell
• Nonfiction: Dick Scott
• Poetry: Bill Manhire

2006

• Fiction: Patricia Grace
• Nonfiction: Judith Binney
• Poetry: Vincent O'Sullivan

2005

• Fiction: Margaret Mahy
• Nonfiction: Philip Temple
• Poetry: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell

2004

• Fiction: Maurice Gee
• Nonfiction: Anne Salmond
• Poetry: Kevin Ireland

2003

• Fiction: Janet Frame
• Nonfiction: Michael King
• Poetry: Hone Tuwhare

References

1. "Previous winners". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
2. "Winners of 2013 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement". Creative New Zealand. 20 October 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013.

External links

• Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement, official website