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About the Press
Auckland University Press is New Zealand’s leading scholarly publisher.
From James Belich’s New Zealand Wars to Chris Bourke’s Blue Smoke, from Allen Curnow’s Early Days Yet to Selina Tusitala Marsh’s Fast Talking PI, from The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography to Ngā Mōteatea, Auckland University Press books have changed how New Zealanders see themselves and their world.
Auckland University Press currently publishes around 25 books a year. With traditional strengths in history and politics, art and architecture, literature and poetry, Māori, Pacific and Asian Studies, the Press is also developing lists in science, business and health. Auckland University Press books are widely recognised for excellence: every year since 2008 the Press has had more finalists in New Zealand’s national book awards than any other publisher.
Auckland University Press publishes New Zealand’s leading historians and political scientists, including James Belich, Linda Bryder, Caroline Daley, Barry Gustafson, Raymond Miller, Erik Olssen and Jock Phillips. Recent titles include Hazel Petrie’s Chiefs of Industry and Ian Hunter’s Age of Enterprise (both finalists in the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards), David Veart’s First Catch Your Weka and Iain Sharp’s Heaphy (both finalists in the 2009 awards), and Chris Bourke’s Blue Smoke (the 2011 New Zealand Post Book of the Year).
Auckland University Press publishes major books on New Zealand art and architecture. Key titles include important overviews such as Michael Dunn’s New Zealand Painting and Francis Pound’s The Invention of New Zealand (a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards), monographs on individual artists including Leonard Bell’s Marti Friedlander and Wright and Hanfling’s Mrkusich (both also finalists in the 2010 awards), and Gregory O’Brien’s books on art for younger readers, Back and Beyond and Welcome to the South Seas (both non-fiction winners at the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children). The Press also publishes architecture titles, including Julia Gatley’s Long Live the Modern and Group Architects.
For thirty years Auckland University Press’s poetry list has attracted New Zealand’s leading poets, including Allen Curnow, Kendrick Smithyman, Elizabeth Smither, C. K. Stead, Ian Wedde, Fiona Farrell and Michele Leggott. Recent highlights include C. K. Stead’s Collected Poems (winner of the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Reference and Anthology), Selina Tusitala Marsh’s Fast Talking PI and Lynn Jenner’s Dear Sweet Harry (winners of, respectively, the 2010 and 2011 NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Awards for Poetry), and Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan’s Mauri Ola (a finalist in the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards). Auckland University Press also publishes key works of literary criticism (most recently Jan Cronin’s Frame Function and Alex Calder’s Settler’s Plot) and biographies such as the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Award finalist by Paul Millar, No Fretful Sleeper.
