Congratulations to the New Zealand Post Book Award Winners for 2011. Esteemed, worthy and legends of literature, you make us proud to be kiwi.

Overall Book of the Year:

Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of NZ Popular Music 1918-1964 by Chris Bourke 

Fiction:The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley

Poetry: The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls by Kate Camp

General Non-Fiction: Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of NZ Popular Music 1918-1964 by Chris Bourke

Illustrated Non-Fiction: The Passing World: The Passage of Life: John Hovell and the Art of Kowhaiwhai by Damian Skinner