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Kiwi kids are proactive readers who love to read home-grown authors – Whitcoulls Kids’ Top 50 booklist
The votes are in and Whitcoulls were delighted to announce their 2019 Kids’ Top 50 Books List on September 23, 2019. The big news is that Kiwi…
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2019 Ngaio Marsh award winners announced
2019 Best Crime Novel to NZSA veteran: Dame Fiona Kidman https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/standing-room-only/audio/2018713340/winners-of-the-ngaio-marsh-crime-fiction-awards Dame Fiona Kidman gave a moving acceptance speech for…
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Indie Booksellers Incensed as Amazon Breaks ‘Testaments’ Embargo
By Claire Kirch | Sep 04, 20 Margaret Atwood’s hotly anticipated new novel The Testaments may be under embargo, but that hasn’t stopped one online retailer…
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New Zealand Book Council becomes Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
New Zealand Book Council is changing its name and identity to become Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. The move will better reflect its work…
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Former Winners Atwood and Rushdie on 2019 Booker Prize Shortlist
A set of six novels the Booker’s Gaby Wood calls ‘political, orchestral, fearless, felt’ is announced in London, the…
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Lani Wendt Young delivers a challenge to publishers the world over for diverse representation
The New Zealand Book Council Lecture: 2019
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NZ Book Industry Awards
Community bookshop wins owners lifetime achievement award Forty years ago, then 25-year-old Rob Clarke had a fateful phone call from…
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Congratulations to our new Poet Laureate
David Eggleton, New Zealand Poet Laureate 2019–2021 David Eggleton lives in Otepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is a poet, writer and critic…
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National Schools Poetry Award celebrates New Zealand’s poets of the future
A year 13 student at Auckland’s Westlake Girls High School has won first place in the 2019 International Institute of Modern Letters’ (IIML) National Schools Poetry Award,…
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Celebrating the unifying power of poetry
This year, Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day takes place on Friday 23 August; the same day that New Zealand’s new Poet Laureate is announced.
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The Coalition for Books: a dynamic new organisation for New Zealand literature announced
A dynamic collaborative organisation has formed to make a tangible difference to the literary landscape of Aotearoa, supported by seed funding from Creative New Zealand (CNZ).
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