October 20, 2015

2015 PRIME MINISTER’S AWARDS FOR LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT: WINNERS ANNOUNCED  

Creative New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2015 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement. 

They are social anthropologist Dame Joan Metge, playwright Roger Hall and poet Bernadette Hall.

Each will be awarded $60,000 in recognition of their outstanding contribution to New Zealand literature. Dame Joan Metge will be honoured for non-fiction, Roger Hall for fiction and Bernadette Hall for poetry. [More]