Historian and novelist, Joan Druett won the General Non-Fiction Category Award for her work, Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator."Tupaia's richly detailed drawings and paintings are a precious legacy and are stunningly reproduced in a book which will intrigue and inspire. Everything about Tupaia reflects Druett's careful research and passion for her subject.
"This is a wonderful book."
The full list of 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards winners is as follows:
New Zealand Post Book of the Year winner:
New Zealand's Native Trees by John Dawson & Rob Lucas (Craig Potton Publishing)
Fiction Award winner:
Rangatira by Paula Morris (Penguin Group, NZ)
Poetry Award winner:
Shift by Rhian Gallagher (Auckland University Press)
General Non-Fiction Award winner:
Tupaia: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator by Joan Druett (Random House NZ)
Illustrated Non-Fiction Award winner:
New Zealand's Native Trees by John Dawson & Rob Lucas (Craig Potton Publishing)
Maori Language Award winner:
Tuku Reo, Tuku Ohooho : My Language, My Inspiration by Chris Winitana (Huia Publishers)
People's Choice Award winner:
From Under the Overcoat by Sue Orr (Vintage, Random House NZ)
6 comments:
Congratulations! Well deserved.
I was following book awards on Twitter last night, and was chuffed to see your win, Joan. Well done.
Fantastic! Congratulations, Joan!
Hurrah, Joan! I was delighted to see this in the "Herald" this morning. Huge congratulations to you.
Well done Joan! Are you going to get Ron his own Kindle now?
Thank you! Thank you! It was a hugely reassuring experience. Getting to know Tupaia was a challenge, with no written records from the man himself, but the sheer force of character of this astonishing man made up for that to quite a large extent. And that he won the award made it very fulfilling indeed.
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