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Ockham Awards shortlist: Airini Beautrais on Bug Week & Other Stories – The Guardian
Author and poet says she’s ‘always enjoyed black comedy’ as her book is among four shortlisted for the prestigious prize
A collection of unhappy love stories, 10 years in the making is in contention for New Zealands top fiction prize though its author says she has already had her happy ever after.
Bug Week & Other Stories, the debut short-story collection by writer and poet Airini Beautrais, is one of four works shortlisted in the fiction category at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Beautrais told the Guardian that she was pleased to have made the shortlist, having been longlisted in the poetry category in the…
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