Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement is a New Zealand literary award established in 2003 by the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand), the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government. Each winner in three categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry receives a monetary award of NZ$60,000.
Winners Source:
2025
Fiction: Barbara Else Non-fiction: Ross Calman Poetry: Dinah Hawken
2024
Fiction: Lynley Dodd Non-fiction: Neville Peat Poetry: Apirana Taylor
2023
Fiction: Lee Murray Non-fiction: Linda Tuhiwai Smith Poetry: Tusiata Avia
2022
Fiction: Stephanie Johnson Nonfiction: Vincent O'Malley Poetry: James Norcliffe
2021
Fiction: David Hill Nonfiction: Claudia Orange Poetry: Anne Kennedy
2020
Fiction: Tessa Duder Nonfiction: Tīmoti Kāretu Poetry: Jenny Bornholdt
2019
Fiction: Elizabeth Knox Nonfiction: Gavin Bishop Poetry: Fleur Adcock
2018 Fiction: Renée Nonfiction: Wystan Curnow Poetry: Michael Harlow
2017 Fiction: Witi Ihimaera Nonfiction: Peter Simpson Poetry: Paula Green
2016 Fiction: Marilyn Duckworth Nonfiction: Atholl Anderson Poetry: David Eggleton
2015 Fiction: Roger Hall Nonfiction: Dame Joan Metge Poetry: Bernadette Hall
2014 Fiction: Jack Lasenby Nonfiction: Jock Phillips Poetry: Ian Wedde
2013 Fiction: Owen Marshall Nonfiction: Martin Edmond Poetry: Michele Leggott
2012 Fiction: Albert Wendt Nonfiction: Gregory O'Brien Poetry: Sam Hunt
2011 Fiction: Dame Fiona Kidman Nonfiction: James Belich Poetry: Peter Bland
2010 Fiction: Joy Cowley Nonfiction: James McNeish Poetry: Cilla McQueen
2009 Fiction: C. K. Stead Nonfiction: Ranginui Walker Poetry: Brian Turner
2008 Fiction: Lloyd Jones Nonfiction: W. H. Oliver Poetry: Elizabeth Smither
2007 Fiction: Fiona Farrell Nonfiction: Dick Scott Poetry: Bill Manhire
2006 Fiction: Patricia Grace Nonfiction: Judith Binney Poetry: Vincent O'Sullivan
2005 Fiction: Margaret Mahy Nonfiction: Philip Temple Poetry: Alistair Te Ariki Campbell
2004 Fiction: Maurice Gee Nonfiction: Anne Salmond Poetry: Kevin Ireland
2003 Fiction: Janet Frame Nonfiction: Michael King Poetry: Hone Tuwhare
References
External links Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement, official website