{"id":42092,"date":"2022-03-02T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/a-really-good-sign-new-zealand-book-prize-nominees-distinguished-by-diversity"},"modified":"2022-03-02T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:00:17","slug":"a-really-good-sign-new-zealand-book-prize-nominees-distinguished-by-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42092","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A really good sign\u2019: New Zealand book prize nominees distinguished by diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori women are represented in every category and two M\u0101ori writers are among the four shortlisted for the fiction prize<\/p>\n<p>From an acerbic novel about queer M\u0101ori-Russian-Catalan siblings to a self-published portrait of 100 indigenous women, the books in line for New Zealand\u2019s top literature prizes are some of the most diverse yet, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a> women represented in every category and emerging authors claiming their seat at the table of established writers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin that field of New Zealand writers, there is tremendous diversity of points of view, style and of experience,\u201d said Paula Morris, the spokesperson for the New Zealand Book Awards Trust.<\/p>\n<p>A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster (Text Publishing)<\/p>\n<p>Entanglement by Bryan Walpert (M\u0101karo Press)<\/p>\n<p>Greta &amp; Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly (Te Herenga Waka University Press)<\/p>\n<p>Kurangaituku by Whiti Hereaka (Huia Publishers)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/a-really-good-sign-new-zealand-book-prize-nominees-distinguished-by-diversity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M\u0101ori women are represented in every category and two M\u0101ori writers are among the four shortlisted for the fiction prizeFrom an acerbic novel about queer M\u0101ori-Russian-Catalan siblings to a self-published portrait of 100 indigenous women, the books in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,71,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-culture","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42093,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092\/revisions\/42093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}