The Lilian Ida Smith Award also known as the NZSA Lilian Ida Smith Award is a New Zealand literary award from the New Zealand Society of Authors. The award is named after Lilian Ida Smith, a music teacher from Whanganui. She granted the New Zealand Society of Authors funds to ‘assist people aged 35 yrs and over to embark upon or further a literary career’.
From 1986–1990 the award consisted of three categories, poetry, fiction and non-fiction, with each recipient awarded $1000. From 1992 the award became biennial award with a prize fund of $3000 for a project in any genre, while after 2017 it was awarded every three years and from 2024 every four years.
Between 1986 and 1990 recipients of the award were: YearPoetryFictionNon-fiction1985Michael Morrissey Owen Marshall Daphne de Jong1987Lauris EdmondBill ManhireRosemary Wildblood1988Mavis WentworthOwen MarshallGraeme Lay1989Bill ManhireMichael GifkinsElizabeth Smither1990Jan McAllumJames NorcliffeGreg Newbold From 1992 the recipients of the award are: YearWinner1992Debra Daley1994Joy McKenzie1996Katrina Willoughby 1998Carolyn McCurdie2000Jackie Davis2003Mary McCallum2005Rachael King2008Sue Orr2009Leanne Radojkovich2011John MacKinven2015Caroline Barron 2017Paula Harris2020Safia Archer
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