New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize


The New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize, formerly known as the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship and then the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, is one of New Zealand's foremost literary awards. Named after Katherine Mansfield, one of New Zealand's leading historical writers, the award gives winners funding towards transport to and accommodation in Menton, France, where Katherine Mansfield went when her health declined.
The prize is open since 1970 to New Zealand citizens and residents whose fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, children’s fiction or playwriting has had favourable impact. Unlike the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, which are the other widely known New Zealand literary awards, the Katherine Mansfield Prize is to an individual to develop their future work, rather than for a specific already-published work.
The prize is awarded Winn-Manson Menton Trust, set up by Celia Manson and Sheilah Winn, but administered by Creative New Zealand.

Recipients

YearRecipient / Fellow
2019Sue Wootton
2018Paula Morris
2017Carl Nixon
2016Kate Camp
2015Anna Jackson
2014Mandy Hager
2013Greg McGee
2012Justin Paton
2011Chris Price
2010Ken Duncum
2009Jenny Pattrick
2008Damien Wilkins
2007Stuart Hoar
2006Fiona Kidman
2005Ian Wedde
2004Bill Manhire
2003Tessa Duder
2002Jenny Bornholdt
2001Catherine Chidgey
2000Stephanie Johnson
1999Elizabeth Knox
1998Maurice Shadbolt
1997Roger Hall
1996Owen Marshall
1995Fiona Farrell
1994Vincent O’Sullivan
1993Witi Ihimaera
1992Maurice Gee
1991Nigel Cox
1990Lisa Greenwood
1989Lloyd Jones
1988Louis Johnson
1987Russell Haley
1986Michael Harlow
1985Michael Gifkins
1984Rowley Habib
1983Allen Curnow
1982Michael Jackson
1981Lauris Edmond
1980Marilyn Duckworth
1979Philip Temple
1978Spiro Zavos
1977Barry Mitcalfe
1976Michael King
1975David Mitchell
1974Janet Frame
1973James McNeish
1972C K Stead
1971Margaret Scott
1970Owen Leeming