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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2022
The 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards went to Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly (Best First Book: Fiction), The Alarmist: Fifty Years Measuring Climate Change by Dave Lowe (Best First Book: General Non-Fiction) and The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibble by Bridget Hackshaw (Best First Book: Illustrated Non-Fiction), with winners in 5 more categories. 20 books were finalists and 44 books made the longlist across 8 categories.
Winners
Best First Book: Fiction
Best First Book: General Non-Fiction
- The Alarmist: Fifty Years Measuring Climate Changesource (opens in a new tab)
Best First Book: Illustrated Non-Fiction
- The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibblesource (opens in a new tab)
Best First Book: Poetry
Fiction
- Kurangaitukusource (opens in a new tab)
General Non-Fiction
- Voices from the New Zealand Wars | He Reo nō ngā Pakanga o Aotearoasource (opens in a new tab)
Illustrated Non-Fiction
- Dressed: Fashionable Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand 1840 to 1910source (opens in a new tab)
Poetry
Finalists
Fiction
- A Good Wintersource (opens in a new tab)
- Entanglementsource (opens in a new tab)
- Greta & Valdinsource (opens in a new tab)
General Non-Fiction
- From the Centre: A Writer’s Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Alarmist: Fifty Years Measuring Climate Changesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Mirror Booksource (opens in a new tab)
Illustrated Non-Fiction
- NUKU: Stories of 100 Indigenous Womensource (opens in a new tab)
- Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Aucklandsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Architect and the Artists: Hackshaw, McCahon, Dibblesource (opens in a new tab)
Poetry
- Rangikurasource (opens in a new tab)
- Sleeping with Stonessource (opens in a new tab)
- The Sea Walks into a Wallsource (opens in a new tab)
Longlist
Fiction
- Aljce in Therapy Landsource (opens in a new tab)
- Everything Changessource (opens in a new tab)
- Loop Trackssource (opens in a new tab)
- She’s a Killersource (opens in a new tab)
- The Pink Jumpsuit: Short Fictions, Tall Truthssource (opens in a new tab)
- Unshelteredsource (opens in a new tab)
General Non-Fiction
- After Dark: Walking into the Nights of Aotearoasource (opens in a new tab)
- Bloody Womansource (opens in a new tab)
- Come Back to Mona Vale: Life and Death in a Christchurch Mansionsource (opens in a new tab)
- Enough Horizon: The Life and Work of Blanche Baughansource (opens in a new tab)
- He Kupu Taurangi: Treaty Settlements and the Future of Aotearoa New Zealandsource (opens in a new tab)
- Helen Kelly: Her Lifesource (opens in a new tab)
Illustrated Non-Fiction
- Bill Hammond: Across the Evening Skysource (opens in a new tab)
- Conversātiō: In the Company of Beessource (opens in a new tab)
- He Ringatoi o ngā Tūpuna: Isaac Coates and his Māori Portraitssource (opens in a new tab)
- Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu | Treasures for the Rising Generationsource (opens in a new tab)
- Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the Context of a Roomsource (opens in a new tab)
- Te Puna Waiora: The Distinguished Weavers of Te Kāhui Whiritoisource (opens in a new tab)
Poetry
- Bird Collectorsource (opens in a new tab)
- Ghostssource (opens in a new tab)
- Party Legendsource (opens in a new tab)
- Sea-lightsource (opens in a new tab)
- Tōku Pāpāsource (opens in a new tab)
- Whaisource (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