Photo / Ashley ClarkThe shortlists for the Ockham NZ Book Awards, announced this week, revealed one big and long-awaited surprise. None are debut writers: Avia and Baker are shortlisted for their fourth books. "Young writers today might not, hopefully, need to look very far to find a really diverse, multilingual selection of poetry books." Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai) is a fiction writer and essayist, and the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature. The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are on May 12.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 05, 2021 19:05 UTC