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 23 (2019)
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
1 peopleThis Mortal Boy is a historical novel reconstructing a 1955 New Zealand murder case and the path to the execution of young Irish immigrant Albert Black. It treats capital punishment, anti-immigrant prejudice, and moral panic over youth culture as an individual tragedy.
Through the death of one young man, the novel asks how a society judges outsiders.
304 pages
historical fictioncapital punishmentimmigrationNew Zealandtrial