Montana New Zealand Book Awards
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Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry
- Blindsight by Maurice Gee (Penguin, 2005)
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Montana Medal for Non-Fiction
- Pōhutukawa and Rātā: New Zealand’s Iron-hearted Trees by Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press, 2005)
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Fiction
- Blindsight by Maurice Gee (Penguin, 2005)
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Poetry
- Lifted by Bill Manhire (Victoria University Press, 2005)
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History
- Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s–1950s by Rosemary McLeod (HarperCollins, 2005)
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Biography
- Dingle: Discovering the Sense in Adventure by Graeme Dingle (Craig Potton Publishing, 2005)
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Reference & Anthology
- Great Sporting Moments: The Best of Sport Magazine 1988–2004 edited by Damien Wilkins (Victoria University Press, 2005)
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Lifestyle & Contemporary Culture
- How to Look at a Painting by Justin Paton (Awa Press, 2005)
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Environment
- Pōhutukawa and Rātā: New Zealand’s Iron-hearted Trees by Philip Simpson (Te Papa Press, 2005)
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Illustrative
- Contemporary New Zealand Photographers edited by Hannah Holm and Lara Strongman (Mountain View Publishing, 2005)
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Readers’ Choice Award (joint)
- Blindsight by Maurice Gee (Penguin, 2005)
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Readers’ Choice Award (joint)
- The Captive Wife by Fiona Kidman (Vintage, 2005)
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The NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction
- A Red Silk Sea by Gillian Ranstead (Penguin, 2005)
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The NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry
- Dream Fish Floating by Karlo Mila (Huia, 2005)
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The NZSA E. H. McCormick Best First Book Award for Non-Fiction
- Pākehā and the Treaty: Why It’s Our Treaty Too by Patrick Snedden (Random House, 2005)
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BPANZ Best Review Page or Programme Award
- The Dominion Post
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BPANZ Reviewer of the Year Award
- Jolisa Gracewood