{"id":77323,"date":"2026-05-14T10:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/14\/ingrid-horrocks-ockham-awards-short-story-collection-new-zealand"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:37:03","slug":"stunned-and-shocked-ingrid-horrocks-wins-top-prize-at-new-zealands-ockham-awards-for-her-fiction-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77323","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stunned and shocked\u2019: Ingrid Horrocks wins top prize at New Zealand\u2019s Ockham awards for her fiction debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Her Lives is only the fifth short story collection to win the prestigious NZ$65,000 prize in 58 years<\/p>\n

First-time fiction writer Ingrid Horrocks has won New Zealand\u2019s richest literary prize for her debut short story collection, All Her Lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Wellington-based poet, essayist and memoirist won the prestigious NZ$65,000 (A$53,000, \u00a328,500) Jann Medlicott Acorn prize for fiction at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand book awards on Wednesday night. <\/em>The book follows nine women across nine different life stages and generations, as they navigate politics, gender and motherhood.<\/p>\n

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All Her Lives is only the fifth short story collection to win the prestigious NZ$65,000 prize in 58 yearsFirst-time fiction writer Ingrid Horrocks has won New Zealand\u2019s richest literary prize for her debut short story collection, All Her Lives.The Well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2186,"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":[41,763,511,71,1041,56,3550,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-awards-and-prizes","category-books","category-culture","category-fiction","category-new-zealand","category-short-stories","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\/77323","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\/2186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77324,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77323\/revisions\/77324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}