A Wellington novelist and playwright - Whiti Hereaka - has won Aotearoa's richest writing prize.
The Jann Medlicott Acorn prize, worth 60,000 dollars, was awarded at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in Auckland on Wednesday night.
Her novel Kurangaituku was described as extraordinary, unashamedly literary, and utterly innovative.
Hereaka spoke to Morning Report.
