The Ngā Kupu Ora Awards web pages, including video footage of the presentations and winners' speeches, are now live. Organisers have announced that the Awards were so successful that they will now be an annual event.

The Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards ceremony, held on Monday evening, was a great success, with five of the six winners attending.

The winners: Dr Ranginui Walker, Malcolm Mulholland, Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Margaret Kawharu (sister of author Merata Kawharu, who was unable to attend), Linda Nikora (Professor Te Awekotuku's co-author and researcher), Dr Monty Soutar and Dr Deidre Brown.

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The Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards, held in July during Māori Language Week, are being presented to winners on Māori Language Day, 14th September.

The presentation celebrates the success of the winners and acknowledges the contributions of all the finalists to Māori publishing. It will be hosted by Library Māori Services Staff who organised the awards, and Te Pūtahi-a-Toi, School of Māori Studies.

The winners in each category, with links to the Library Catalogue to find or request the books, are:

All of the finalists are available for borrowing here. The complete list of finalists in each category is on our earlier post Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards 2009.
We'll try to bring you some photos of the awards presentation in the next few days.

Books about Māori written by Māori were the resounding choice of hundreds of voters in Massey’s Inaugural Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards held to coincide with Māori Language Week.

Organiser Spencer Lilley, the University's Kaihautū Māori (Māori library services manager), says the idea for organising book awards recognising Māori literature was as a result of other major book awards consistently failing to do so.

The winners in each category are:

All of the finalists can be found on our earlier post Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards 2009

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The Montana New Zealand Book Awards winners were announced yesterday. The Medals went to Novel About My Wife (for Fiction or Poetry) and Rita Angus: An Artist's Life (for Non-fiction).

The Montana NZ Book Awards finalists are all held at Massey Library. Many are currently on display in the New Zealand & Pacific room at Turitea Library. View the complete list in the Catalogue, or click on the covers below to request them.

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