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Paula Morris on the Ockhams most diverse shortlist ever
5 Mar, 2021 07:00 PM
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Hinemoana Baker. Photo / Ashley Clark
The shortlists for the Ockham NZ Book Awards, announced this week, revealed one big and long-awaited surprise.
Just last year, Kiri Piahana-Wong convenor of judges for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry
said she was dismayed to see that only a tiny number of writers of colour were in contention for the prize.
Now, for the first time in the 50-plus years of book awards, the four poets shortlisted are Māori, Pasifika, Asian and Arab: Hinemoana Baker, Tusiata Avia, Nina Mingya Powles and Mohamed Hassan. ....

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