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Kiwi kids can read their local cricket team to victory this summer
The Super Smash Reading Challenge brings together two favourite Kiwi summer pastimes: cricket and reading. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura (formerly NZ Book Council) has joined forces with New Zealand Cricket’s T20 summer tournament to get kids reading more books over the holidays.The Super Smash Reading Challenge is a new interactive website. Primary and intermediate-aged children […]
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RESOLUTION: THE DEMOCRACY OF THE IMAGINATION MANIFESTO
RPRESENTED BY Presented by Jennifer Clement, PEN International President Per Wästberg, Emeritus PEN International President and Chair of the Nobel Prize for Literature Eric Lax, PEN International Vice President Nayantara Sahgal, PEN International Vice President Ngugi wa Thiong’o, PEN International Vice President Paul Muldoon, PEN America Board Member ARGUMENT Within the history of PEN is […]
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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 kids often discover what they want to read through their own research, are huge fans of books in a series and love to read local authors. Whitcoulls Book […]
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2019 Pikihuia Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the Pikihuia Awards for short stories were announced last Saturday at Te Wharewaka o P?neke. On a wet Wellington afternoon wh?nau, friends and supporters of M?ori literature and arts came together to celebrate and acknowledge the success of 23 M?ori writers. The judges had the important job of selecting the winners […]
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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 Best Novel: The winner was This Mortal Boy, by Dame Fiona Kidman – which also took out the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards this year. This Mortal Boy was written […]
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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 from selling it. The mix-up has incensed independent booksellers, and drawn an acknowledgement, if not a flat-out apology, from publisher Penguin Random House. A number of angry independent booksellers have taken […]
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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 to promote reading through a range of programmes and campaigns, as well as a desire to remain truly relevant in a changing Aotearoa New Zealand. Staff and board worked with education consultant […]
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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 2019 Booker winner to be named October 14. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Extraordinary Ambition for Each of These Books’ In a news conference at the British Library in London this morning (September 3), […]
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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 This year’s New Zealand Book Council Lecture, Stories from the Wild: Reading and Writing in the Digital Age, was delivered by Lani Wendt Young in Wellington last night. A free e-book of the lecture is now available for download. Young discussed the importance of representation in literature, the […]
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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 his mother, asking him if he’d like to run a bookshop in Paraparaumu. Tonight, he and his wife Kaye have been jointly awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 Book Trade Industry Awards, announced […]
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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 whose writing has appeared in a wide variety of New Zealand publications. As a poet he has presented his poems in many venues to all kinds of audiences. He began reciting his poetry […]
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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, with her poem ‘Mammalian’. Xiaole Zhan receives a prize of $500 and the opportunity to attend a poetry masterclass with poet Chris Tse and Starling editor Francis Cooke […]
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