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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2007
The 2007 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards went to The Sound of Butterflies by Rachael King (Best First Book: Fiction), Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History 1830-1900 by William Cottrell (Best First Book: Non-Fiction) and Secret Heart by Airini Beautrais (Best First Book: Poetry), with winners in 8 more categories. 2 books were Honor Books and 32 books were finalists across 11 categories.
Winners
Best First Book: Fiction
- The Sound of Butterfliessource (opens in a new tab)
Best First Book: Non-Fiction
- Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History 1830-1900source (opens in a new tab)
Best First Book: Poetry
- Secret Heartsource (opens in a new tab)
Biography
- Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Musicsource (opens in a new tab)
Environment
- Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealandsource (opens in a new tab)
Fiction
- Mister Pipsource (opens in a new tab)
History
- Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestorssource (opens in a new tab)
Illustrated Non-Fiction
- Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealandsource (opens in a new tab)
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
- Stitch: Contemporary New Zealand Textile Artistssource (opens in a new tab)
Poetry
- The Goose Bathsource (opens in a new tab)
Reference & Anthology
- Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History 1830-1900source (opens in a new tab)
Honor Books
Fiction
- The Cowboy Dogsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Faintersource (opens in a new tab)
Finalists
Best First Book: Fiction
- Davey Darlingsource (opens in a new tab)
- Overdue New Releasessource (opens in a new tab)
Best First Book: Non-Fiction
- An Illustrated Guide to New Zealand Hebessource (opens in a new tab)
Best First Book: Poetry
- After the Dancesource (opens in a new tab)
- Cupsource (opens in a new tab)
Biography
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole, New Zealand Scholarsource (opens in a new tab)
- Brief Livessource (opens in a new tab)
Environment
- Extinct Birds of New Zealandsource (opens in a new tab)
- New Zealand: A Natural World Revealedsource (opens in a new tab)
Fiction
- My Name Was Judassource (opens in a new tab)
- Ocean Roadssource (opens in a new tab)
History
- Chiefs of Industry: Maori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealandsource (opens in a new tab)
- Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australiasource (opens in a new tab)
Illustrated Non-Fiction
- Julia Morison: A Loop Around a Loopsource (opens in a new tab)
- Lake of Coal: The Disappearance of a Mining Townshipsource (opens in a new tab)
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
- Crown Lynn: A New Zealand Iconsource (opens in a new tab)
- Kāhui Whetū: Contemporary Māori Art, A Carver's Perspectivesource (opens in a new tab)
Poetry
- One Shapely Thingsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Year of the Bicyclesource (opens in a new tab)
Reference & Anthology
- An Illustrated Guide to New Zealand Hebessource (opens in a new tab)
- Tirohia Kimihia: A Māori Learner Dictionarysource (opens in a new tab)
About the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The New Zealand Book Awards ran as the Montana New Zealand Book Awards (2006-2009), the New Zealand Post Book Awards (2010-2014) and the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards (2016-2025). No awards were held in 2015. Year is the ceremony year. Winners and finalists for 2006-2014 come from Christchurch City Libraries award pages (fallback; the official site lists winners only for those years). 2016-2017 longlists and finalists come from the official longlist and finalist news releases, and winners from the official past-winners page. 2018-2025 come from the official per-year winners, shortlist and longlist pages. Categories keep stable names across sponsor renames: the Acorn and Jann Medlicott Acorn prizes are Fiction, the Mary and Peter Biggs Award is Poetry, the Royal Society and later General Non-Fiction Award is General Non-Fiction, and the Booksellers and BookHub awards are Illustrated Non-Fiction. The Montana-era Illustrative category is mapped to Illustrated Non-Fiction. Its other non-fiction categories (Biography, History, Environment, Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture, Reference & Anthology) stay as their own categories. From 2010 non-fiction was split into General and Illustrated. Best first book awards are their own categories: Hubert Church (Best First Book: Fiction), Jessie Mackay (Best First Book: Poetry), E.H. McCormick (Best First Book: Non-Fiction until 2014, then Best First Book: General Non-Fiction) and Judith Binney (Best First Book: Illustrated Non-Fiction, from 2016). Ockham best first book awards are drawn from the longlist and have no published shortlist, so only winners appear. Levels: Winner; Honor for the Montana fiction runners-up; Finalist for shortlisted books; Longlist for longlisted books not shortlisted (Ockham only). Excluded: the Montana Medals and Book of the Year (they duplicate a category winner), People's and Readers' Choice and Booksellers' Choice (public or trade votes), the Maori Language Award, the reviewer awards, and the separate children's and young adult awards, which are a different program. Iwi affiliations in brackets are dropped from author names. Title spellings follow the books where the source has typos.
Organization: New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Dublin Literary Award 44 shared books
- Women's Prize for Fiction 6 shared books