The 2007 Montana Book Awards were presented at a gala event held in July at Auckland’s Sky City. The much-awarded Lloyd Jones novel Mr Pip scooped the top award, adding to Jones’ trophy list for this impressive book which includes the 2007 Commonwealth Writers prize and a shortlisted place in the Man Booker awards.
The full list of winners for 2007 were as follows:
Montana Medal for Fiction or Poetry, Fiction winner and Readers Choice award
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Penguin Books)
Fiction runners-up
The Fainter by Damien Wilkins (Victoria University Press)
The Cowboy Dog by Nigel Cox (Victoria University Press)
Poetry
The Goose Bath by Janet Frame (Vintage)
Montana Medal for Non-Fiction, and Illustrative winner
Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand by Audrey Eagle (Te Papa Press)
Biography
Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music by Philip Norman (Canterbury University Press)
Environment
Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand by George Gibbs
(Craig Potton Publishing)
History
Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors edited by K R Howe (David Bateman Ltd)
Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
Stitch: Contemporary New Zealand Textile Artists by Ann Packer (Random House)
Reference and Anthology
Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era: An Illustrated History 1830-1900
by William Cottrell (Reed Publishing)
