Arts and Literature
- Michael King and Paula Boock win the Robert Burns Fellowship.
- Montana New Zealand Book Awards:
- Montana Medal: Heather Nicholson, The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand
- Deutz Medal: Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck
- Reader's Choice: Elizabeth Knox, The Vintner's Luck
- First Book Awards
- Fiction: Willian Brandt, Alpha Male
- Poetry: Kate Camp, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars
- Non-Fiction: Helen Schamroth, 100 New Zealand Craft Artists
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