Live updates from the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
All the finalists in this year’s Ockham New Zealand book awards. Image: Tina Tiller/Claire Mabey.
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Books editor Claire Mabey blogs this year’s Ockham New Zealand Book Awards ceremony live from Aotea Centre, Tāmaki Makaurau.
Welcome to the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards! These are the awards for writing for adults across fiction and nonfiction. The prize money is the largest in the land and a win can change a book’s life.
Tune in from 4pm for some warm-up posts, and from 7pm for a blow-by-blow of the ceremony as it unfolds.
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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.
