Arts and Literature
- Michael King wins the Robert Burns Fellowship.
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards:
- Montana Medal: Harry Orsman (ed.), Dictionary of New Zealand English
- Deutz Medal: Maurice Gee, Live Bodies
- Reader's Choice: Malcolm McKinnon(ed.), New Zealand Historical Atlas
- First Book Awards
- Fiction: Catherine Chidgey, In a fishbone church
- Poetry: Kapka Kassabova, All Roads Lead to the Sea
- Non-Fiction: Genevieve Noser, Olives: The new passion
See 1998 in art, 1998 in literature, Category:1998 books
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