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FOR NON-FICTION 1976-1995 |
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FOR NON-FICTION 1976-1995 |
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The New Zealand Book Awards ran from 1976 to 1995 when they merged with the Montana Book Awards to form what is now the country's single set of national awards, the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. The awards were granted for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with an award for book production added in 1981. The award-winners for non-fiction are shown in the following table. Joint awards were given for some years. These are indicated by listing the year twice.
| 1995 | Phoebe Meikle | An Accidental Life |
| 1994 | Harry Evison | Te Wai Pounamu: The Greenstone Island of the Southern Maori During the European Colonization of New Zealand |
| 1993 | Jane Tolerton | Ettie: A Life of Ettie Rout |
| 1992 | Anne Salmond | Two Worlds: First meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772 |
| 1991 | Frank McKay | The Life of James K. Baxter |
| 1990 | Frances Porter | Born to New Zealand: A Biography of Jane Maria Atkinson |
| 1989 | Ronald Kean | Tarawera |
| 1988 | Dick Scott | Seven Lives or Salt River |
| 1987 | Virginia Myers | Head and Shoulders |
| 1986 | Janet Frame | Envoy from Mirror City |
| 1985 | Pater Mahon | Verdict on Erebus |
| 1984 | Janet Frame | An Angel at My Table: An Autobiography, Volume Two |
| 1983 | Ray Grover | Cork of War |
| 1982 | Robin Morrison | The South Island of New Zealand from the Road |
| 1981 | Antony Alpers | The Life of Katherine Mansfield |
| 1980 | Sylvia Ashton-Warner | I Passed This Way |
| 1979 | Harvey Franklin | Beyond the Welfare State |
| 1978 | Michael King | Te Puea |
| 1977 | Keith Sinclair | Walter Nash |
| 1976 | Mervyn McLean & Margaret Orbell | Traditional Songs of the Maori |
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