Live updates from the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
All the winners of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
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Books editor Claire Mabey live blogs this year’s award ceremony live from the Aotea Centre, Tāmaki Makaurau.
Welcome to the biggest night in Aotearoa literature, where we find out who won some of the country’s biggest – and most cashed up – literary prizes.
I’ll be here to bring you up to speed from 4pm, before the ceremony kicks off at 7pm.
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Claire Mabey
Claire Mabey is a children's author of The Raven's Eye Runaways, The Raven's Eye Rebellion, and a picture book Cass and the Beast illustrated by Jill Calder. For a long time Claire worked on literary festivals and is the founder of Verb Wellington. She lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara with her partner and son.
