Ockham Book Awards 2026 longlist revealed

Ockham Book Awards 2026 longlist revealed

Nine debut authors appear on the longlist announced today, including the former prime minister for her recent memoir.

Jacinda Ardern longlisted for this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards

Announcing the 44 books competing for the year’s major literary awards. This year’s Ockhams have already been in the news thanks to those AI book covers and the whole “we can’t accept them” and then the “actually we will but only this one time” to-ing and fro-ing by the book awards trust (which, to be fair, is doing the hard yards navigating a brave new world). Below are the longlists for each of the four categories as selected by the panels of …

Polkinghorne, Ardern up for Ockham award

Philip Polkinghorne and Jacinda Ardern, together at last. My character study Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century and Jacinda Ardern’s memoir A Different Kind of Power are up against each other in the longlist for the Ockham national book awards announced this morning at 5am. There are 42 other longlisted titles but I have led with news of my nomination in the nonfiction category as an indication of how extremely stoked I am to have mad…

Ockham 2026 longlists announced | Books+Publishing

The longlists for this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The titles in each category are: Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 1985 (Dominic Hoey, Penguin) All Her Lives (Ingrid Horrocks, Te Herenga Waka University Press) Before the Winter Ends (Khadro Mohamed, Tender Press) Empathy (Bryan Walpert, Mākaro Press) Hoods Landing (Laura Vincent [Ngāti […]