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Changes Made to BNZ Literary Awards
BNZ Literary Awards
After 51 years, the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Awards are getting a facelift and renaming to the ‘BNZ Literary Awards’, with the Premier Award becoming the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award.
The Awards have grown into one of New Zealand’s strongest and longest running creative writing awards, with 2009 showing a record 51% increase from the year before, with a total of 1,795 entries.
BNZ has sponsored the Awards from the beginning as Sir Harold Beauchamp, Katherine Mansfield’s father, was the first Chairman of Directors.
The 2010 Awards hope to discover new and exciting talent as it has in the past with winners now well known in New Zealand and internationally.
Notable winners of the Premier Award include Maurice Shadbolt (1963, 1967 and 1995), C K Stead (1961), Frank Sargeson (1965), Keri Hulme (1975), Vincent O’Sullivan (1979), Daphne de Jong (1981) and Maurice Shadbolt (1995).
Entries open from 1 June and more information can be found at bnz.co.nz
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