A novel following 2 children living in Germany during the war has won the top fiction prize at the New Zealand Book Awards. Ngaruawahia based author Catherine Chidgey has been awarded $50 000 Acorn Foundation fictional prize for her novel. The Wish Child. It took Catherine 13 years to write. “The book took me a long, long time to write and changed a lot over that period, so I’m just so pleased and relieved that I stuck with it and made it the book that I want it to be, Catherine said. Some of the other nominations were Billy Bird by Emma Neale, A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse Brannavan Gnanalingam and many more. Source: Kiwi Kids News
2 words
1: Ngaruawahia: Is a town Ngāruawāhia is a town in the Waikato region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 20 km north-west of Hamilton.
2: Novel:A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.
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