Maori war story takes prize
27 Jul 2005
Courtesy of NZ Herald Picture / Mark Mitchell
26.07.05
By Jarrod Booker
Novelist Patricia Grace (right) has won the country's top fiction writing award just 12 days after being recognised…
Courtesy of NZ Herald Picture / Mark Mitchell
26.07.05
By Jarrod Booker
Novelist Patricia Grace (right) has won the country's top fiction writing award just 12 days after being recognised as an "icon" of New Zealand art, music and literature. Grace's novel Tu, a sweeping saga following the Maori battalion into war, was presented the Deutz Medal for Fiction or Poetry by Prime Minister Helen Clark at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.