Whanganui author Airini Beautrais wins major prize at Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 12 May, 2021 08:45 AM 3 minutes to read Beautrais' Bug Week is the first short story collection to win the major prize in over a decade and only the second in the awards' 53-year history. Photo / Lewis Gardner Beautrais' Bug Week is the first short story collection to win the major prize in over a decade and only the second in the awards' 53-year history. Photo / Lewis Gardner Whanganui writer Airini Beautrais has won New Zealand's biggest writing prize. Beautrais was announced the winner of the $57,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in Auckland on Wednesday night.