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Awards
Auckland University Press books and authors recognised at national book awards.
2013
- Most Beautiful Books Australia & New Zealand Award — The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature, Jane Stafford & Mark Williams, editors
2012
- Honour Award, NZ Post Children's Book Awards –
Digging up the Past: Archaeology for the Young and Curious, David Veart
- New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry – Briefcase, John Adams
- New Zealand Post Book Award, Poetry – Shift, Rhian Gallagher
- Bronze Award, Designers' Institute of New Zealand Best Awards – Athfield Architects, Julia Gatley
- ARANZ Ian Wards Prize – Making Sheep Country: Mt Peel Station and the Transformation of the Tussock Lands by Robert Peden
2011
- New Zealand Post Book of the Year – Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964, Chris Bourke
- New Zealand Post Book Awards People's Choice Award – Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964, Chris Bourke
- New Zealand Post Book Award, General Non-Fiction – Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964, Chris Bourke
- New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry – Dear Sweet Harry, Lynn Jenner
- New Zealand Society of Authors E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction – Whaikōrero: The World of Māori Oratory, Poia Rewi
- PANZ Book Design Awards, Random House New Zealand Award for Best Illustrated Book – Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music, 1918-1964, Chris Bourke. Internal design: Katrina Duncan; Cover design: Spencer Levine
2010
- PANZ Book Design Awards, Hachette NZ Award for Best Non-illustrated Book – Mirabile Dictu, Michele Leggott. Internal design: Katrina Duncan; Cover design: Keely O'Shannessy
- New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry – Fast Talking PI, Selina Tusitala Marsh
- Pride in Print Awards, Gold: Book Category – Aloe, Diana Bridge
2009
- Montana New Zealand Book Award, Reference and Anthology – Collected Poems, 1951–2006, C. K. Stead
- New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry – Everything Talks, Sam Sampson
- Ngā Kupu Ora Book Awards, Te Reo Māori category – Tāhuhu Kōrero: The Sayings of Taitokerau, Merata Kawharu, with photographs by Krzysztof Pfeiffer
- New Zealand Post Book Award for Children and Young Adults, Non-fiction Prize – Back and Beyond: New Zealand Painting for the Young and Curious, Gregory O’Brien
- The ARANZ The Ian Wards Prize – Settlers: New Zealand Immigrants from England, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1945
2008
- Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry – Cold Snack, Janet Charman
- New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry – Incognito, Jessica Le Bas
2007
- Spectrum Design Awards Best Non-Illustrated Book – Brief Lives, Chris Price. Internal design: Katrina Duncan; Cover design: Sarah Maxey
2005
- New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry – Clung, Sonja Yelich
- Montana New Zealand Book Award for Biography – Chronicle of the Unsung, Martin Edmond
- New Zealand Post Book Award for Children and Young Adults, Non-fiction Prize; LIANZA Elsie Locke Award for non-fiction – Welcome to the South Seas, Greg O’Brien
2004
- Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry – Sing-song, Anne Kennedy
- Montana New Zealand Book Award for Reference and Anthology – Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English, edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan
- J. M. Sherrard Award in New Zealand Local and Regional History – From Tamaki-makau-rau to Auckland, Russell Stone
- ARANZ Ian Wards Prize – Treasury, Malcolm McKinnon
2003
- Montana New Zealand Book Award for Biography; Ernest Scott History Prize; ARANZ Ian Wards Prize – A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields, Philip Temple
- Spectrum Print Book Design Award for Best Cover – Dog, C. K. Stead
2002
- New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Award for the Best First Book of Poetry – Husk, Chris Price
- J. M. Sherrard Award in New Zealand Local and Regional History – Girls and Women, Men and Boys: Gender in Taradale, Caroline Daley
2001
- Montana Book Award for Poetry – The Bells of St Babel’s, Allen Curnow
- Spectrum Print Book Design Award for Best Cover – A Book in the Hand, Penny Griffith, Alan Loney, Peter Hughes (eds), John Callaghan designer
- ARANZ Ian Wards Prize – His Way: A Life of Robert Muldoon, Barry Gustafson
2000
- J. F. Northey Memorial Prize – Waitangi and Indigenous Rights, Jock Brookfield
- Montana Book Award for Poetry – The Lark Quartet, Elizabeth Smither
Earlier
- 1999 Montana Medal for Non-Fiction – The Loving Stitch, Heather Nicholson
- 1998 New Zealand Society of Authors Award for Best First Book of Poetry – All Roads Lead to the Sea, Kapka Kassabova
- 1998 Wallace Award for best book on electoral matters – Voters’ Victory? Jack Vowles, Peter Aimer, Susan Banducci, Jeffrey Karp (eds)
- 1997 Montana Book of the Year – The Story of Suzanne Aubert, Jessie Munro
- 1997 GP Print Design Award for Typography – The Story of Suzanne Aubert, Jessie Munro
- 1996 Montana Book of the Year – Redemption Songs, Judith Binney
- 1996 Montana Special Honour Award – Nga Iwi o Tainui, Bruce Biggs and Pei Te Hurinui Jones
- 1995 NZ Book Award for Poetry – Dia, Michele Leggott
- 1995 NZ Book Award for Non-fiction – Accidental Life, Phoebe Meikle
- 1993 Wattie Book Award, third place – The Autobiography of my Father, Martin Edmond
- 1991 Best First Book of Poetry – Jazz Waiata, Robert Sullivan
- 1990 NZ Book Award for Poetry – A Pattern of Marching, Elizabeth Smither
- 1989 Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize – Continuum, Allen Curnow
- 1988 NZ Book Award for Poetry – All Cretans are Liars, Anne French
- 1988 Best First Book of Poetry – All Cretans are Liars, Anne French
- 1987 Best First Book of Prose – The New Zealand Wars, James Belich
- 1987 NZ Book Award for Poetry – The Loop in Lone Kauri Road, Allen Curnow and Jump, Elizabeth Nannestad
- 1987 Trevor Reese Award for Commonwealth History – The New Zealand Wars, James Belich
- 1986 NZ Book Award for Poetry – Stories about Wooden Keyboards, Kendrick Smithyman
- 1984 NZ Book Award for Book Production – Aggressions of the French, George Pritchard, Paul de Dekker (ed.)
- 1983 NZ Book Award for Poetry – You Will Know When You Get There, Allen Curnow
- 1982 NZ Book Award for Book Production – Portrait of Frances Hodgkins, Eric McCormick
- 1980 NZ Book Award for Poetry – An Incorrigible Music, Allen Curnow
- 1978 NZ Book Award for Poetry – Spells for Coming Out, Ian Wedde
- 1977 NZ Book Award for Non-Fiction – Walter Nash, Keith Sinclair
- 1976 NZ Book Award for Fiction – A Glorious Morning Comrade, Maurice Gee
