Just over a month after the lists of finalists for New Zealand’s 2019 Ngaio Marsh Awards were made known, the winners of these 10th-annual commendations have been announced. They are:
Best Novel: This Mortal Boy, by Fiona Kidman (Penguin)
Also nominated: Money in the Morgue, by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy (HarperCollins); The Quaker, by Liam McIlvanney (HarperCollins); Call Me Evie, by J.P. Pomare (Hachette); and The Vanishing Act, by Jen Shieff (Mary Egan)
Best First Novel: Call Me Evie, by J.P. Pomare (Hachette)
Also nominated: One for Another, by Andrea Jacka (Red River Pony); and Crystal Reign, by Kelly Lyndon (Remnant Press)
Best Non-fiction: The Short Life and Mysterious Death of Jane Furlong, by Kelly Dennett (Awa)
Also nominated: The Great New Zealand Robbery, by Scott Bainbridge (Allen & Unwin); Behind Bars, by Anna Leask (Penguin); and The Cause of Death, by Cynric Temple-Camp (HarperCollins)
The victorious books and their authors were identified earlier today as part of this year’s WORD Christchurch Festival. To learn more about the individual winners, click here.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
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