{"id":1132,"date":"2010-08-27T08:04:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2010-08-26T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T10:05:12","slug":"todays-the-day-the-nz-post-book-awards-will-be-decided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/todays-the-day-the-nz-post-book-awards-will-be-decided\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s The Day—the NZ Post Book Awards Will Be Decided!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is August 27—and that means that tonight the NZ Post Book Awards<\/strong><\/a> will be decided at a glittering (well, that’s the word the promo material uses anyway) gala event in Auckland. And to personalise it all, two of my friends, Bernadette Hall<\/strong><\/a> and Michael Harlow<\/strong><\/a>, are in the running for the NZ Post Book Award for Poetry<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just to be even handed, I featured first Bernie<\/strong><\/a> and then Michael<\/a> as my Tuesday Poets<\/strong> over the past two weeks. All three finalists, including former Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate, Brian Turner<\/strong><\/a>, were also featured on the Tuesday Poem hub<\/strong><\/a> on 30 July, NZ National Poetry Day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Also in the running for the NZ Post Book Award for Fiction<\/a><\/strong> is Owen Marshall<\/strong><\/a>, for his short fiction collection, Living as a Moon<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (Vintage).\u00a0 Owen was my creative writing mentor a few years back, through the NZ Society of Author\u2019s\/Creative New Zealand programme<\/a>, and is often spoken of as NZ’s foremost contemporary short fiction writer. But if Living as a Moon <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>wins tonight it will be the first time Owen has won the fiction award for a short story collection. He has won previously, but for a novel, Harlequin Rex<\/strong><\/em>, in 2000.<\/p>\n

The other contenders for the Fiction Award are Alison Wong<\/strong><\/a>, for As The Moon Turns Silver<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>(Penguin) and Fiona Farrell’s<\/strong><\/a> Limestone<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (Vintage).<\/p>\n

To check out the General Non-Fiction<\/strong> finalists, click here<\/strong><\/a>. The Illustrated Non-Fiction finalists are here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And there’s a People’s Choice<\/strong> category as well, with Alison Wong’s As The Moon Turns Silver <\/strong><\/em>the popular front runner for this award. (Although she’s also many pundits’ pick for the overall Fiction award as well.)<\/p>\n

But we’ll all just have to wait and see what tonight brings, won’t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is August 27—and that means that tonight the NZ Post Book Awards will be decided at a glittering (well, that’s the word the promo material uses anyway) gala event in Auckland. And to personalise it all, two of my friends, Bernadette Hall and Michael Harlow, are in the running for the NZ Post Book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-events","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}