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Published 16 May 2017Ashleigh Young wins Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction
Ashleigh Young (Wellington) took the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction for her collection of personal essays Can You Tolerate This? (Victoria University Press) at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The category’s judges’ convenor, Susanna Andrew, says Young’s work sets a high bar for style and originality in a form that has very little precedent in this country. “Always an acute observer, it is in Young’s commitment to writing as an art that the true miracle occurs; she tells us her story and somehow we get our own.”
Young catapulted to international recognition earlier this year when she won the Yale University US$165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize for the collection.
See nzbookawards.nz for full list of 2017 winners.
Source: Royal Society Te Apārangi