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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards おっかむ・にゅーじーらんど・ぶっく・あわーず

Edition 3 (1998)

Fiction (Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction)General non-fictionIllustrated non-fictionPoetry (Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry)Te Mūrau o te Tuhi – Māori Language AwardBest First Book awards (各部門)

Winners

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Maurice Gough Gee もーりす・じー Winner

Maurice Gee’s Live Bodies is a novel about a man whose wartime and postwar experiences in New Zealand shape his life.

The novel explores war, migration, and a persistent sense of displacement.

264 pages
historical fictionmigrationwaridentity