Catherine Chidgey has won the country's top fiction prize for her novel The Wish Child.
Waikato author Catherine Chidgey has won the country's top fiction prize. Photo: Catherine Chidgey Fiona Pardington
The Ngāruawāhia resident has been awarded the $50,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction prize for her novel, which follows two children living in Nazi Germany.
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Chidgey is one of four award winners, from 150 entries, announced at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in Auckland this evening.
Paris-based poet Andrew Johnston won the poetry category for his collection Fists and Starts and Ashleigh Young took the award for general non-fiction for her collection of first-person essays, Can You Tolerate This?
Dunedin writer and historian Barbara Brookes won the illustrated non-fiction award for A History of New Zealand Women.
Four authors also won awards for their first books including Ngarino Ellis, Hera Lindsay Bird, Adam Dudding and Gina Cole.
