Fiso cooks up Ockham winner
13 May 2021 08:30 AM
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Wellington chef Monique Fiso’s treasury of Māori food, Hiakai, has won the illustrated non-fiction and the best first book of illustrated non-fiction tohu in this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
The awards were presented at a gala event in Auckland last night.
Fiso will speak on Sunday at the Auckland Writers Festival on her mission of taking Māori cuisine to the world.
A discretionary Māori Language Award, Te Mūrau o te Tuhi, went to Tā Tīmoti Kāretu for Mātāmua ko te Kupu!, which draws on his life's work composing, performing and teaching haka and waiata.