Awa Press author wins major literary prize

Kelly Ana Morey has won the inaugural Janet Frame Literary Award for Fiction. Morey's latest book and first non-fiction title, How to Read a Book, was published by Awa Press on December 2.

Witi Ihimaera, author of the novel Whale Rider (now a major motion picture), has praised How to Read a Book as 'funny, scintillating, wicked and thought-provoking - a literary Holly Golightly, hauling her arse through her life, her career as a New Zealand novelist, post-modern literature and God knows what else.'

Kelly Ana Morey has had a stellar career. Her first novel, Bloom, won the Montana Book Award for first work of fiction in 2004, while her second, Grace is Gone, a year later was shortlisted for the international Kiriyama Prize.

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